How to spot out a female aspie?

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As we all know, female aspies are a lot harder to detect because they assimilate with the NT population a lot easier. And aspergers has a male bias so we often don't think girls have aspergers syndrome. I've had very little experience with other female aspies.

What do you think are things to look for when trying to spot out a female aspie? I thought of a few:

1) She may have a flatter voice then most NT females
2) She makes eye contact appropriately but her eye contact is rather dead.
3) When interacting with people she makes appropriate non-verbals but when shes not, her face may look a bit dead.
4) She may say or do small things that are still a little off.

Any other ideas?

I'm persuaded that the secretary at the doctors office is aspie. Her voice is flatter then most NT women, especially for a secretary(most secretary put on a very well-skilled friendly act), her eye contact is rather dead, when I approached her she seemed a little lost with her job, she gave me a red pen to fill out doc forms, she called me this morning to reschedule my app and her speech was awkwardly phrased her words like she didn't automatically know how to smoothly ask me on the spot.

Tell her to do something followed by something else and then a third thing - she'll come back to you and ask what the third think was if she's anything like me

inability to multitask
Poor memory of vocal instructions (or is that just me)
Anxiety in unfamiliar territory
Dislike of change - female copes better then males, and the signs aren't as obvious, but an aspie girl will become uncomfortable with unexpected change.
Still have obsessions, but tend to be more mainstream, so accepted by society more.
Often misdiagnosed as manic-depressive first (I was diagnosed as that when I was 7)
Prone to meltdowns and tears over things considered small to NTs.
Can't contain happiness, so tend to jump up and down, giggle and other 'childish' displays when excited.
Strong moral compass and hates injustice.
Social interaction are 'performed'. Aspie girls can appear more apt at social actions, but is overwhelmed by too many people or small talk.

There is a really good article here:
http://www.byparents-forparents.com/asp ... girls.html

I was looking more for superficial things on the surface to look for when just meeting a female aspie. Its kinda like you would suspect she was aspie after a few encounters with her.

Does she seem to get stressed and anxious when she is outside her comfort zone, or overwhelmed? Anxiety is a large factor in women with aspergers. Also, as I said before, they are emotional and are prone to crying or showing some other sign of 'meltdown' over things that others would see as trivial and small.

Very hard, unless they have learning difficulties. Even then, it's hard to tell. I mean, some are in your face and needy - but some women are like that anyway. I think the quiet ones stand out more.

How I find a fellow Aspie? Usually they're a little more quiet and on their own at first, but if you talk to them and find their likes, I find a lot of times they'll have the same interests in me such as MMORPGS, drawing, music, video games, anime, etc. How I approached one girl who I look back and am 100 percent sure is an Aspy, is she'd brought a nintendo ds and was playing it in class. Most NT girls aren't into video games like mmorpgs, rpg games, etc. etc. Especially ROle Playing games. They're a bit quiet at first, but once you talk a bit more with them, you open up and find you have simliar likes and dislikes, and your think similarly, which makes it easier to click.
I had a couple girls like that in Highschool. We'd talk in highschool, and we hung out a couple times, bu tonly a couple times because we're more wired to want to spend more time alone, and we don't think about calling and setting up times to hang out and what up since we get wrapped up in our games, and life.

I hate being given a verbal list of instructions too. I forget them all.

I don't understand what "dead eye contact" means how does one go about deciding whether eye contact is alive or dead?