Time To Have Our Own Aspergers Hand Sign?

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Playing rock paper scissors lizard spock by yourself.

A washable tattoo easily visible on the arm or hand, a ring or a bright colored unique bracelet would be better...

My hand sign: My index finger up my arse.

ruveyn

hands on the ears?
ok

Watch out! As "disconnected" from the social inner circles as some of us are, we might accidentally adopt a hand sign which mimics a gang signal, and we might wind up with a tragedy someplace where an Aspie is mistaken for a Hoover 13 Krip, or something.

How about just announcing out loud "THERE ARE THREE BURNED OUT BULBS IN THE BUILDING!! !!" , OR "WHY IS THERE ONE MISMATCHED CEILING TILE" when you enter a restaurant... Anything that's clearly an out-of-context observation, voiced awkwardly.... That will let every other Aspie know you're one of us.

I wear a MedicAlert bracelet, which tells emergency personnel that I might freak out and hurt them/myself if restrained or wake up under bright examination lights, etc. As far as for social situations, I have tried to hone my "Aspie Radar". I have no problem openly discussing my Autism, but there are times I wouldn't announce it; such as at a motorcycle riders' club gathering, or when writing a politically-charged newspaper editorial. There are times it could be used against us, or other times it might help us. I have a marking on my driver's license, which says "High Functioning Autism may appear as nervous or guilty demeanor". This seems to help cut the number of times I get held and held by police, who spot my unusual behavior, and think I'm planning a bombing or a government take-over, or something, LOL.

As far as fellow Aspies and the HFA community identifying me as on the Spectrum, I have a puzzle piece bumper sticker, and wear a puzzle piece pendant, and I have a huge tattoo of an air raid siren made up of puzzle pieces with one missing, on my left shoulder. If that isn't plain enough, I'd have to wear a spelled-out T-shirt.

Charles

I like this one

It’d no doubt make a good montage on a wrong planet video if a lot of us did it!

I don't like, because of the fact the person is using the middle digit to cross the A.
@ MONKEY: I actually like that idea.

Come on, you guys... The AS handsign was invented almost 50 years ago.

Renegade, that needs to be done. And have our usernames on the pictures too.

You'd know I had Aspergers the second I walked in the room thanks to my (not so discreet) Tourettes blurting out 'I'm f*****g autistic!'

sorry but we need someone who has been singed their whole life to give succession..even small g is made by holding
3 fingers in your cheek in here

How bout flap your wrists and say "ah"

You mean there isn't already some stupid colored ribbon fo aspies?

Any decent hand sign would have to look like stimming.

Holy crap. I see stuff like this all the time. Learned awhile ago to keep my mouth shut.

I second that motion. This is the best one I've seen so far, but something is needed that can be done more discreetly and with a single hand. You need to be very quick to throw your fingers together into that position at just the right time without looking like a total klutz when you are fighting those cognitive delays to begin with.

I like Monkey's idea for the hand sign.

Dylan yeah that's definitely a good one, the problem is people will probably think you are just a Star Trek fan lol, I always liked that sign tho.

Live long and prosper

Ha, I vote for this one! I laughed so hard I snorted.