Does AS have a "look"? Where can I find a true dia

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My avatar is a picture of my beautiful son. Everyone who has familiarity with AS agrees he should have been officially diagnosed, he has been tested several times since he was 3, but his only official school listed diagnosis is Central Auditory Processing Disorder. I am so frustrated, I think it has something to do with the school district saving money. Meanwhile, he's only got 2 years of school left and he is still not being correctly helped. Anyone here from Oregon know where to go for testing besides the University?

You could go here:

http://www.newleavesclinic.com/services/assess_nlc.htm

I have a longer face, prominent bottom lip and gentle looking eyes, along with high and prominent cheek bones that are more towards the front of my face. Pretty much like the cute looking guy in my avatar.

According to the pics you've posted, you look nothing like him.

Anyways, back to the point of the thread, he looks kind of like an Aspie to me. I can't really explain how I can think this sometimes.

if what you're asking is if autism/AS has a particular physical appearance associated with it, similar to down syndrome, then the answer is no. however, i have noticed that people with autism/AS tend to have similarities in the way they hold themselves. toe walking is common, obviously, and it also seems like many people don't close their lips all the time when in a neutral expression, and hold their forearms horizontally to the body with the hands dangling... has anyone else noticed that? i always catch myself doing it with one or both arms, and often in candid photographs i'll notice that i'm doing it even if i didn't realize it at the time... but i've also noticed that sometimes people with other brain disorders do the arm thing (cerebral palsy, i think down's syndrome, etc...)

anyone else notice that? =/

I have the same.

I do not know how common these are, but I do all of them to some degree. I don't know how often, as I don't always notice.

Except toe-walking. Walking any other way is uncomfortable and the floor feels strange.

when i was in high school i would watch the autistic kids in special education and compare what they did to my own behaviours (in the interest of not sounding like an a**hole who stared at the special ed kids, i'd like to point out that most of what i'm talking about occurred in gym class my senior year, where there were two autistic students a year or two younger than me, and i was almost always the one who got partnered with them because no one else was willing most of the time)
and anyway, they did the arm thing a lot...

here's an example of what i'm talking about: http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos- ... 8021_n.jpg
(that's me in hawaii, we were visiting the volcano on the big island and had climbed down into a lava field that had been molten only 50 years ago. my mom has a ph.d in geology, her dissertation had something to do with volcanoes, so she was really excited since we live in kansas... anyway, that's me running off to be scale for her lol)

edit: for anyone interested in geology/volcanoes/giant craters of solidified lava, here's when i finally got down there to be scale http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos- ... 1667_n.jpg

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My husband just looks different in the way he holds himself. He walks different although its hard to explain cause he isnt mentally ret*d, he is just different. He holds his mouth open like that. I wonder if I can figure out a way to post a picture of my husband from when I first met him online, the only picture I saw of him before we met in person....


Ok, how do I insert a picture from photobucket or my computer?!

If you saw me in person, you would fall over because you wouldn't believe how much I look like him. Those are bad pictures taken with a web cam.

from photobucket, you could probably just post a link, or if you look at the pic in photobucket there should be a place with the bbcode all done for you (they have direct link, im/email link, html, and bbcode)

copy and paste :3

This might take me a minute, let me try...

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Whoo hoo. It worked. Thanks! This is the only picture I had seen of my husband when we talked online. Everyone told me not to meet him, he looked weird, but I thought he was cute! Please dont quote the picture if you can help it because I would like to delete it later!

To the OP.... I do think your son has that look. I know they say there is nothing physical, and in many cases there probably isnt, but I do think sometimes there is a look.

i'm told I look autistic because of my eyes and my expressions.

i have a long facewith high cheekbones.

To me your son, just looks absent minded on your avatar. One comfort, most of us do

I think the absent minded stare in the eyes (apart from the rest of the face) could qualify for the "aspie look".