Identifying other aspies in public

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Do you think it is easy to identify other aspies in public? I think that if I saw another aspie who I do not know, I would never think they're an aspie even if they do something that NTs would consider weird.

I even doubt it is easy to identify someone as an aspie after you get to know them.

Depending on where you are you can identify aspies easily in public due to the way we behave in certain places.
But i do agree that it would be difficult in some cases for example myself, I can socialise enough not to stand out that much.
I can't really explain most of how i myself can identify aspies in public due to it being something intuitive but here are the well known and easily noticed things:
Little eye contact when speaking, little or no body language, stilted speech and something from my self is that in a place like a pub i used to sit on my own and watch the world go by while drinking because i had given up trying to talk to people.

i think its some what stereo typical to say that all asperger people will act the same in certain places because i find each of us and other people ive met with aspergers to be unique i mean there are some similar traits that we have but were all invividual people some of us are different anyways to your question i hope that helps that there are some siimilar symptoms and traits

It's hard to notice eye contact when you don't display much either .
If I see someone behaving like an aspie, I wouldn't think much of it at all except that that's who they are. There could also be many factors affecting someone's mood a certain day that they're an aspie doesn't cross my mind.

I'm guessing that being an aspie makes it hard to notice other's personality even if they show similar traits as you do.

Nicely said immortalwarrior. That's what I expected.
It also makes it even harder for me to meet aspies in my region.

I can't really tell either. I think a lot of people might have AS-typical symptoms like being shy, awkward or eccentric, but that doesn't mean they're Aspies.

It's a very hard thing to do. If there's a support group or something in your area, that might be the place to check for other Aspies.

I am very high functional and socialize well enough to go mostly unnoticed. People just think I'm extremely quirky. I can't really recognize anyone in public as an Aspie simply because there's too many outliers in regards to behavior.

No, I can't tell. People who seem to Stim make me wonder, but other than that, no.

I sometimes see really strong symptoms in people my age and younger. There are a few at school who I notice from time to time.

When I've told people about my AS they've usually said they had no idea. One AS guy I met at a party once was talking to me, he was quite good socially so I didn't notice it until he told me, and when I told him I had it too he said he hadn't noticed at all.

It's definitely harder to spot in adults.

I notice sometimes, when I'm talking to someone who is clearly just as shy as I am.

I find that strangely, seeing someone who is nervous about talking to ME really calms me down and makes me take initiative in the conversation. I don't feel sorry for them, I just try to help them through it. Really confident people who seem like they're probing me can intimidate me.

Sometimes my Aspie-o-meter will go off...there was a kid who came into SHFL tonight who seemed so AS-ish that Flakey came up to me and said..."do you think he's an Aspie? (his Aspie-o-meter went off too)

.I know what you mean by how can you tell if someone is avoiding eye contact when you don't make eye contact yourself...I have noticed this way that some Aspies I have known hold their heads when they are talking to you...sorta upwards and looking down at the same time with eyes diverted...i sorta do it too..i think...

I saw someone today who was an obvious aspie. i didn't say anything though.

Yeah..i could not imagine ever bringing it up to someone...

"Pardon me sir, but I couldn't help but notice you stimming over there in the corner...(ahem)..Are You An Aspie????"

These topics are so addicting, like mind chocolate.

I have become more sociophobic since I have been unemployed for the last six weeks. But even before I would not look at many people when I went out in public. I am not sure I can accurately identify persons who kive with AS on the basis of appearance (I am against such visual judgements anyway) but I do know I have been in job interviews and if they last more than ten minutes the interviewer must have picked up something on his/her radar because the initial friendliness and exuberance exhibited at the beginning of the interview is dispensed with as I am usually ushered hastily out because of some emergency situation and that I will be contacted for a second interview if I am judged to be a siuitable candidate.

I seem to have this effect. Such power?

I got on a bus a couple of weeks ago, and noticed a guy talking with two 'friends' a few seats behind and felt more and more sure he was an Aspie though the 40 min journey. He got off the bus before his friends did and they were saying horriable things about him as soon as he got off.
I wish I could have thought of a decent reason to talk to him.