Is this even possible?

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Don't know enough to give an answer so should of voted 'don't know' but I was strangely drawn to the last option so chose that

A great desire to be alone at least sometimes is almost always a component of autism.

In the vast majority of cases, a desire to be alone results in social difficulties--directly and indirectly.

I would say that it's a virtual impossibility for an autistic person to have "little or no" social difficulties.

A person has "little or social difficulty" when the person is able to be socially conscious and socially adept even when he/she is experiencing quite a bit of stress in his/her present life.

When I'm moderately stressed, my social difficulties really stand out.

Even in my "best state," I exhibit evident, though mild, social difficulty.

It is evident that I am not adept socially.

Oh, I get it . Everything gets worse under stress!

Usually, it does.

If there's little stress, even people who are severely autistic can have a "calming down" of their symptoms.

Yep, stress really sucks! Too bad I haven't found many effective ways to manage it.

I'd say it's possible, but would be very rare and very stressful.

Although I think most on the spectrum aren't capable of it, I can imagine a theoretical scenario where someone with very high functioning Autism might have learned exactly what the Neurotypical world is expecting in almost every scenario and be able to "wear the appropriate mask" for all of those scenarios.

That said, as I said, it would probably be very stressful for this person, and this person, while having no visible problems on the outside, would probably be very unhappy inside and a very, very different person in private than around other people.

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I chose "ferret" in the poll just because I love ferrets, but here's my actual opinion. An adult can be autistic and have no *obvious* social difficulties, if they have learned sufficient coping skills and manage their interactions carefully. That is, it wouldn't be noticeable to an observer, although the autistic adult would still be working much harder at socialization than their NT counterpart, and perhaps not getting quite as good a result. Any autistic person would have at least had social difficulties in childhood, though.

I say this from my own experience - I had a job for several years that depended on socialization. It was terrible and painful, but I learned a lot and after a year or so, nobody could tell I had social difficulties. However, I was constantly monitoring everything I said and trying to decode people's words and faces, and it was always a struggle.

In fact, when I first started taking Aspie quizzes online, I didn't quite make the cut because I would hit questions about that and say "Well, I used to be like that, but I learned how to do it", which, according to my evaluation, wasn't the point of the question.

Thank you for your reply. I think that passing can be even more painful and stressful than not doing anything at all to hide your social difficulties. It must be hard for you. I am sorry .

The correct answer is this: It is possible for autistics to have no social problems at all while watching pigs in flight.