Can you ve weird without having asperger?

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Of course not! Everyone knows only Aspies are weird.

Common sense anyone?

I'm weird and I probably don't have aspergers.

I identify strongly with aspergers (not diagnosed though) but do not consider myself "weird". I have a lot of issues, am certainly different in some ways, but weird in the conventional sense of the word? No.

I think that very many "NT"s are quite FREAKISHLY weird to me......


(I did not tie shoes till age 8..off key reference to above thread)....I still drank out of a bottle, mostly out of preference till age 7.....I was having self-care issues all the way into high school...which could possibly exclude me from Aspergers..and put me more in the HFA area..so PDD-NOS MIGHT be more accurate than Aspergers......I generally do not wear shoes with ties. I still have slipons and velcro tabs and have to wear special ergonomic shoes because I walked on my toes for so many years) I was allowed into kindergarten. Was more inclined than any other kid in my class to wet themselves, and I would have dizzy spells from forgetting to eat and I was frequently in time out for not following instructions. I was constantly singled out and pulled out of class for special tests. They constantly tested my hearing for some reason...unless it only happened a few times, and I just have a memory of it that repeats itself......I had boys who were my friends, but girls wanted nothing to do with me. I wish that I had stayed at that school and not moved when I was in first grade. They seemed to be slightly more aware and sympathetic to the fact that I had "issues". A long history of bullying and abuse by teachers commence when I switched to a different school in the same neighborhood. The school where I started kindergarten became an "Exemplary Magnet" school and got more funding than most other HISD schools. I really wish I could have stayed there........SORRY...am on TOTALLY OFF TOPIC TANGENT.....AAAAAAH!! !

One of my friends has Fragile-X Syndrome, and she's had to be took to a mental hospital because she went a bit, kind of, crazy. And she's not on drugs or anything like that. Her behaviour was a bit bombasitc. The neighbours had to call the ambulance. Not quite sure about all the ins and outs of it. To most people, her behaviour is seen as ''weird''.

1 percent of the population are Autistic. 99 percent can't be all non-weird. There are lots of other diversities of people, besides Autism. Neurology isn't about NT vs Autism.

I'm sure most people have at least one person that thinks they are weird. Having aspergers doesn't automatically mean you are "weird"

Yes, absolutely you can.

What a bizarre and silly question that is.

Were you thinking that Aspies had a monopoly on weirdness, or something?

Of course not!

A great many people are weird and in times past and in times future, that shall always be the case, it's one of the only reasons why this world is worth my tolerating. And who's to say any of us are really "weird" anyway; has it ever occurred to you that maybe it's the rest of the world and its outmodded thinking that is truly worthy of being deemed "weird"?

I find humanity's undying need to destroy itself particularly "weird", but you don't hear the media conglomerates of our world calling that behaviour "weird", do you? No, instead it's the quiet kid huddled in a corner, infatuated with patterns and numbers that's truly "weird", isn't it? There is so much wrong with this question that I can't believe I actually took the time to answer it, nor can I believe that other people on this forum are continually bumping the topic up by feeding it more replies.

Please, let's just allow this line of questioning to die with some dignity already!

You can be weird and not be an Aspie. There are plenty of odd and eccentric ADHD'ers out there, for example!

''There's naught so queer as folk.'' A well-known saying what has been going around for decades.

It means nobody's perfect. Including myself.

A lot of people like to call themselves weird. It's like a fad. Their self-declared bizarreness isn't going to be of any detriment to their social life if they can help it. Whatever they are referring to is usually just some collection of charmingly interesting quirks. If only I had their brand of "weirdness"!