Are you still autistic?

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I feel like, while some autism stuff applied to me before, it doesn't now, so talking about autism stuff for me is kind of pointless, so I was a little pissed at my mother for saying some AS treatment would help me. I stopped being that AS when I was 17.

Well, I don't REALLY know what kind of stuff you are referring to. I was not OBVIOUSLY autistic, unless someone pushed like three types of buttons, and KNEW what autism was. The ONLY one that was ever really in that position was me NOW!

Just yesterday, I went into a circuit city. I SWEAR, it was like people were TRYING to bump into me(and they say WE are uncoordinated?!?!? ). I kept dodging them. I went in, went straight to the area where what I wanted was and, while leaving, scanned the place, while weaving through all the foot traffic. I never said a word.

That isn't definitive, but it DOES seem a bit autistic!

I used to cook for a living and I mentioned that more people might like it if there were more room between the chairs and tables in the dining room as I knew I would like that. It was explained to me that 'people' loved being near to each other and the bumping and contact between folks was what told them it was a friendly family place, and 'people' liked that!

I save up memories of stuff like that to provide me clues for how those 'people' see life and how I can adapt by not going to places that are 'friendly family' places.

Merle

I used to think I wasn't anymore; that I'd 'outgrown it'. But over the last 6 months I've come to realise that yes, I overcame a huge number of the problems I had when I was younger, and I cope very well and easily pass for NT, but that I'm still definitely and obviously (to those who know how to look) AS. And that I'm actually ok with that.

This is an intriguing question. 2ukenkerl and Sinsboldly's responses sound exactly how I respond in those types of situations. If that is one's definition of autistic behaviors, then that is me. Yet I feel unbelievably more social than ever lately. I even joined a Scrabble Club.
I think my AS symptoms are at their nadir lately; it's sort of like a sine wave for me although the maximums are less and less as time goes on.

I am every bit as AS as I ever was. It's just that in the past four decades, I've been forced to learn a number of coping mechanisms, so as to get by in a society dominated by people totally unlike me.

(However, when AS was suggested in '02, my sister, mother, and wife [in that order] read the diagnostic criteria, and agreed independently that that's me.)

I think the behaviors are mostly in reaction to others.

We are treated like non-Christian, people who never go to church suddenly want to attack us for Jesus.

It is some herd instinct.

As we get older they would look silly, so they stop. This is the missing adults, with the focus on children, easy to abuse, which gets a very different response from an adult, which cures NT views of autism.

All of our learned Psychologists would shut up in a biker bar. Yea, I like chrome and spinning wheels, you got something to say about that psyhco boy?

Looking at autism from adult outcomes gives a very different view. One at a time we were all abused children, if we put a stop to that, things would be a lot better.

Autism, it is not just children.

This is me whenever I go out in public and it's even mildly crowded.

It's one of the reasons I don't like large cities.

when I went to the psychologist for my DX, I brought with me that little hand out they send you from Social Security that charts how much money you made for each year you have been working and there it is, RiverOtter, the sine wave you mentioned, rising and falling over the years. Sometimes it swoops way up and then it will drop way down to 0 then over the course of a few years back up to above the poverty line and even that big spike during the DOT.COM boom and bust. (49 grand in 2000 to 6 grand in 2001!)

anyway, I understand how my AS ebbs and flows and I now know enough not to force to do something when the tide is out, or when it is flooding.

Merle

I'm pretty moderately autistic, it isn't ever going to just leave me. If anything I am worse now then when I was younger.

Theres days were my autistic symptoms seem to be less visible, but everything i read online does apply to me, it just applied to me more when I was a child. Growing up I was the typical rainman stereotype, completely withdrawn from the world, and more non-verbal though.

I'm autistic. And I don't consider myself less or more autistic than I used to be, although I'm sure others would differ in both directions on that. I think of autism as the cognitive and perceptual setup, not the outward behavior. And I'm autistic when I'm alone (and, I'm sure, "look autistic" when I'm alone -- during times when I was passing better, I often "looked more autistic" when I was alone than when I wasn't alone!).

I continue to be autistic... and over the last year with this neurodegenerative disease i have seem to become even more autistic

I used to be moderately autistic when I was young. Just going into a different room I would scream. If something changed I would scream. If something wasn't perfect I would scream. Did you know when I was young I would scream about everything? I didn't make eye to eye contact but now I do. Back then I didn't talk much and now I talk 24 hours a day. Now I am high functioning. Back then I was not as high functioning. Back then I didn't want friends. Now I have many friends. Doing my art is helping me get out of autism. If you see me now you would never think I was autistic.

I am less on some symptoms and more on others.

For example, when I was younger I was interactive and wanted to socialise. Now, I spend most of my time at home...I think that has something to do with depression, though, more than AS itself.
When I was younger I used to gag at the sight of cotton hanging from my clothing. I don't do that anymore.
I don't meltdown as much as I did when I was younger.
Nowadays, I have more intense obsessions than I used to.

I don't think I will ever be more or less autistic...I think that at different times throughout my life, different symptoms will decrease or increase in severity.

I'm 17 right now, and I'm as aspie as they come.