Do I look like an Aspie in this video?

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I second Herman's statement, in it's entirety.

Obviously no one can tell much from such a short video containing no actual verbal information. But it is surprising how much one can tell, that is presuming you are doing no 'acting' here.

The impression I get is that you are friendly, sincere, have some interests worth talking about, probably quite smart but at the same time have some childlike innocence and sense of fun.

This is all conjecture of course, but it seems others agree. Your appearance would also fit within my POSITIVE image of AS traits. You are naturally quite attractive and have not covered yourself in vulgar make up. I think most people actually are naturally quite attractive but they screw it up through illogical NT lifestyles/fashion/insecurities.

I dont really get how you can see Autism as a disease, how anybody can. I find that label ridiculous. I do think psychological somatypes are a little more complicated that popular labelling suggests, more grey area. But in my opinion if you compared NT/AS mindsets and behaviours side by side, it would be NT's which are the "diseased" ones.

Devilkisses: From what I know of you (on these threads) you seem quite happy and fine to me. You have a pleasant smile and the variation in the pitch of your voice seems fine to me, too. I wouldn't be able to tell that you were an Aspie.

1. Clip is too short, does nothing but give us a hint that you have an accent of some sort - do you speak other languages?
2. Diagnosis usually only clear after observing history of interaction with others, or by discussions, etc. Which is not in the video.
3. You look like a young, possibly awkward, but (other posters were right) beautiful girl.
4. Making any judgement in 20 seconds is impossible... though in some cases (provided one is not acting) there may be cause to investigate further: Example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqtt6RBBGTQ (though I have a feeling she is faking it, trying to cash in on the fact whatshername - the other 'americas got talent' success story - is now claiming AS)

*I'm not saying you don't - because that would be impossible to do for the same reasons - but not even Einstein or good ol' Hans himself could say that you are on the spectrum from listening and watching you say what... 20 words?

* It is not a disease, a disorder, or a reason to be distraught.
It could be considered a disadvantage in some lights, or a disability in others... But all that means is we need to learn how to find our place in a society not ready for us; tricky, yes, but we have a lot of good problem solvers among us, and we are gaining momentum.

I dont even understand the question, how can you 'look aspie'?

Aspergers isnt like Down's Syndrome where its visible, thats one of the issues.

I don't have as but you don't look particularly awkward or anything to me. No more than anyone would when videoing themselves. You seem quite quiet but you have a friendly smile as well.

So you think random people on the internet, that probably aren't professionals in areas of psychiatry and psychology, can determine whether you have a complex neurobiological disorder based upon a ten second video?

Okay.

Last edited by Norepinephrine on 03 Jan 2014, 9:50 am, edited 1 time in total.

No, you don't look any different from NT and you seem very sweet. Your efforts on your tone gave good results as well.

You look like a normal human being to me.

I showed my 13 year old niece and my 9year your vid.

I didn't tell them anything about why or who you are.

My kid said you were different. The way you talked???

My niece was shocked you would be on YouTube sans make up or your hair "done up".

Both loved your glasses.

Aspie or not? Can't tell about that, but you don't blend in with the herd if that's what you wanted to know.

You look young, so that is why I had the kids viewed the vid. They pick up on little things I don't care about, because I'm older than dirt. Lol....

I think you're cute.

I thought the op was diagnosed and wanted to know if she looked different on video?

The OP is cute. I find that that kind of cuteness often belongs to people with AS. (-:

I showed my 13 year old niece and my 9year your vid.

I didn't tell them anything about why or who you are.

My kid said you were different. The way you talked???

My niece was shocked you would be on YouTube sans make up or your hair "done up".

Both loved your glasses.

Aspie or not? Can't tell about that, but you don't blend in with the herd if that's what you wanted to know.

You look young, so that is why I had the kids viewed the vid. They pick up on little things I don't care about, because I'm older than dirt. Lol....

I think you're cute.

I disagree. There is no way anyone can diagnose someone with Asperger's from a brief video like this. And if you think that they can then you are seriously kidding yourself.

Your question is like me asking if people can tell me if I have aspergers from either this photo:



Or this video:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctJ2qdO2OFY[/youtube]

No way to tell really.

The only thing you can possibly ascertain (depending on how you view things) is that I don't look like I am nearly 40 years old, which I am. As to whether an ASD is present, bearing in mind I did a drama course in early 20's, is anyone's guess.

What might be more of an indicator is the fact that I don't have any friends (and have not had platonic friends in 20 years plus), cannot maintain friendships, like to disappear off by myself a lot to do my own thing, am single and am struggling to find a relationship (guess I am not what men find attractive in this day and age), I struggle to make conversation, am regularly told I am weird, get overly attached to my hobbies (usually...although lately I am all over the place where that is concerned like I just can't make up my mind in regards to which of my interests is my favourite) and so on. But even then there could be other things that could cause similar problems.

I am also nerdy as I got A grades at university and I actually enjoyed my exams and love writing essays....

Nerd alert does not equal ASD though.

This post illustrates one of the problems with internet/short video diagnosis. The person doing the diagnosing must go on nothing but a small number of traits that are visible. It demands stereotyping. In your case the stereotypes are positive (childlike innocence, lack of makeup). These things have nothing to do with what is listed in the DSM. f you stray from the DSM (and you have to in order to do this), you wind up making a "diagnosis" based only on whether somebody has traits that you feel are positive and would like to see associated with autism. It's a form of saying "I like how you present yourself and I'd like you to be in the same group as me".

Some Aspie women wear makeup. There are some threads on it in the Women's subforum. Some NT women don't wear makeup. Makeup or the lack of it isn't diagnostic in either direction. You have tried to make it be for informal diagnostic purposes but this is for ideological reasons (seeing makeup as being part of lifestyle/fashion insecurities) and has nothing to do with whether somebody is Aspie or not.

Another poster took a more objective route by showing it to two people unaware of ideologies or diagnostic categories and even then knew that even this objectivity wasn't adequate for even informal diagnosis.