Can you do Spock's "live long and prosper" gesture

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I can't for the life of me. I was just wondering if others Aspies can't do this, or is it just me?

I can. I doubt this has any relation to AS.
Sometimes I pass out at night, and then I don't awaken until morning. Is that AS?

I can - it takes practice though

Frosty does the Spock thingie = answer yes!

Some coordinations are not prolly Aspie - I heard aspies are clumsy but I don't seem to be overly that way. shrugs clumsily...... haha lol

Legend has it that Leonard Nimoy first saw his Rabbi make that sign in temple when he was a child..... \\//,
it is supposed to be the Hebrew letter ש shin.
Yes I can make that sign with either hand.

It doubled as the "be quiet" sign in one of my classes once. I had a little trouble with it at first, but I can do it now.

Yes, although it's easier with my right hand.

I used to keep my hands like that and pretend that I was nightcrawler.

Of course.

It was one of those obssessive things in grade school...someone in my class could do it who was popular and could also bend the first knuckle of one of his fingers... so thinking that was the way to get popular (ok, yes I'm even more of a dork than most of us) I set about learning that.

So now I can do that as well as control the first knuckle bend of all of my fingers.

I can, but it takes a lot of concentration for me to get it right.

Have been able to do it with both hands effortlessly since third grade. I'm right-handed, but for some reason I can get it a little bit wider with my left.

I don't see how it could depend on having any form of AS or autism since it doesn't involve coordinated movements like running or dancing. It's just arbitrary whether you can or can't do it.

Incidentally, I could never snap my fingers until my senior year of high school, when I had to for a part in Fiddler on the Roof. That prooved learnable with a few weeks of practice.

I've heard that the ability to do that gesture is genetic like the ability to roll your tongue or wiggle your ears/nose. AFAIK there's no correlation with ASDs.

I can do it with both hands, and inverse as well. It did take some work.

It's good for doing shadow dogs on walls too

I don't agree that ability to do either this or to whistle is genetic. I was frusterated that I couldn't do either of these things and later on, I thought maybe it was genetic. Over more time, I had practiced both of them enough to where I could finally do them. I can also change the length relationships between my index, ring and middle fingers, simply by shifting them slightly one way or the other.

Yep, easily with both hands. My mother can too; my father can't at all, and my brother finally learned how to do it on one hand (can't remember which).