Longest you have "passed" in an NT enviroment.

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What is the longest you have managed in an NT environment without being spotted?

I usually managed about a week until I noticed that one particular individual noticing me. Then the word got around and they all began noticing.

How long did you manage?

I couldn't care less anymore.

But it mattered at the time.

Between gas stations on the Interstate.

Well using a BM in a hardtail might be a little conspicuous as well , you know.

I've made it twenty years, eight days, and counting.

Pat2rome : How?! !!

What is an 'NT environment?'

A workplace full of NT's hardwired to spot those not wired up like them.

Assuming you meant people realizing you are on the spectrum, that's my answer. If you meant people realizing you're different, people notice pretty fast. I've never had problems with small talk, so I don't say things that seem "off-color" to people. I give off a "quirky" or "genius" vibe to people (at least in high school, I stand out far less on both counts at GT). If I had more severe social limitations (the only one is I can't read body language, and my memory and processing speed makes up for that easily), it would be more obvious.

Place where you have to recall so many random bits of info to make yourself interesting in conversation : like who was Kendo Nagasaki, was he really that dutch judo guy ? The tattoo was the giveaway etc..

I am genuinely interested in who Kendo really was BTW. The point I was making is you have to be able to recall normal stuff and that's very difficult.

The 14 years that I went to school. Pre-school, elementary school, high school and college.

I don't really have any of that sort of trouble* with people. I find that most people don't really give a damn. There are some jerks in the world, but I've kind of learnt how to handle them, and any kind of person - regardless of neurology - can be a jerk.

(* I have plenty of the not-knowing-how-to-communicate trouble with people though)

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I always thought Kendo Nagasaki was a British guy (not that I was alive at the time he was on the go or anything, so I don't know much about him).

There was a docu-film made late 80's early 90's where it was suggested he might have been this dutch judo guy.