rabidmonkey4262 wrote:
All my life, I have gotten alot of unusual remarks, to the point where they're not so unusual. I'm pretty sure it's because of AS. The other day, I was minding my own business in a book store and a man came up to me and said "you have a very unusual and powerful energy about you." I simply thanked the man. What else do you say when you are accosted with such a remark? It's not the first time someone has made a comment like this, and I usually just dismiss them because I don't care for the metaphysical (is that the right word?) thing. The other comments I get are "you are the strangest person I ever met." My cousin always jokes that I'm "from the 7th dimension." Several people have also told me that I have a "gift" with animals. I used to dismiss this one as well, but I can find tangible reasons why I'm good with animals, even if the person that stated the comment can't pinpoint their reasons.
I'd just like to point out that I'm proud of these comments, especially since I sometimes feel "boring" for not being convivial. They remind me that I'm anomalous, but not defective. Before I knew about AS, I used to wonder why people would say these things; I was trying really hard to look and act like an NT but my disguise was inexplicably transparent. I just find it odd that people can sense when you have AS, even if they don't all use the same label.
I'm not so sure that they sense people as having AS, as that they are conditioned through experience to expect certain responses to social and physical cues. When a person with AS doesn't respond in a way that they recognize as normative, this stands out and is observed to be 'odd'.