People's view on 'abnormal behaviors'

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I get "looks" all the time.

For some reason, I really don't mind.

I like everyones ideas so far! I was actually thinking about doing the 'dress as a baby' one cause I have the onesie, bib, and pacifier from a theme day at school. (imagine a whole school either dressed as babies or grannies- it was hilarious. We no joke went to the baby store to buy pacifier necklaces and stuff. It was super funny)

I do kinda think its a solid point that doing something subtle would be more interesting though. My teacher said we had to be careful not to go overboard because we'd just get written off as 'crazy teenagers'. My partner has to come along to record observations while I do the weird thing, so Im curious to know if doing something subtle would make her uncomfortable as well despite knowing about beforehand.
I guess the first step is I have to muster up the guts to actually go through with it. I can barely do anything in public when Im actively trying not to draw attention to myself, let alone when I'll be the center of it!

kraftiekortie,

I just thought of meowing, too. How funny! I thought of going through my day roleplaying as a cat.

On all fours?

It would be fun though to meow, rub against things and walk in the delightful feline way but upright....

I have a couple of bad knees----I wouldn't do too well if I went around on all fours.....I stick to upright walking.

Whatever you decide to do, just do not go around and start licking doorbells for three hours like someone recently did. That is just too unhygienic and gross.

I would get an A* on this assignment without even having to make any effort, because all I have to do is walk along like a normal person and dressed like a trendy normal person, and I still get stares from passers-by.



Not that it's really a laughing matter, as this does get to me.

That sounds like one of the classes my brother took 50 years ago in college. He had a class assignment of that nature. To fulfill the assignment, he and his girlfriend went to a fast food restaurant and had a very loud verbal fight. Everyone in the restaurant watched it unfold. It is lucky that someone didn't try and intervene and punch him in the face.

Not sure if it would fulfil the assignment or not and whether it would out you as Asperger's or not but one subtle thing you could do is the opposite of your specialist interest in front of your friends. So for eg if you're a cat fan and hate dogs, start leaving hints everywhere you're looking into getting a pet dog.

I changed football team one April fool's day on Twitter and to my dad (I'm a huge sports fan so...)

I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable doing something subtle and weird in proper public because it's sort of making fun of Asperger's. Even doing something extreme would feel sort of like making fun of a more extreme mental illness and therefore not funny. But I can be an SJW when it comes to disability rights.

I think you should be honest about your autism, at least to your teacher. It will help in this assignment and in other ones - you can get help from disability services and stuff. Since I was 15 I've been out about my autism to teachers, although not always to the class because some class mates are bullies. Before that, schools knew even though I didn't.

And if it really isn't safe to be out to your teacher then they're an unprofessional teacher to begin with and I'm sorry.

PS although one subtle idea I have which has nothing to do with autism. Old people sometimes do this but not youngsters or regular aged adults. Wear your slippers in public instead of your shoes and see if anyone notices.

It'd never work where I live (medium-sized UK city). I's been said you could walk into town on your hands and nobody would bat an eyelid. People here usually keep themselves to themselves in public places. And if you got really abnormal, you might attract the attention of the police, and I suppose after explaining they'd just let you go. I presume you're in the USA, maybe it's different there, but I can't see how it would be possible to get the reaction the teacher wants, I would think getting public ridicule would be quite hard because I can't imagine strangers volunteering their opinions of other strangers' behaviour, it if weirded them out they'd probably just feel uncomfortable or scared and try to escape in case the weird one was dangerous.

I think it's rather insensitive of the teacher to try to make people put themselves into such a humiliating situation anyway, assuming it worked at all, unless the students were all very ableist and totally ignorant of how a person with mental differences from the norm might feel. I think most ridicule comes from similar jerks who have nothing better to do than to put others down. It sounds like either the local people are mostly jerks who love mocking people, or the teacher just thinks they are. Some teachers get a bee in their bonnet about the lesson they've decided to teach, and overlook the possibility that their students already know the gist of the lesson. If I were you I'd be very tempted to not do it and just make something up. If I were confident enough I'd make up a story that disproved the teacher's point, like "I walked about dressed like an idiot and people were really nice to me."

Go on the escalators that are going the opposite direction you are going and run down the escalator steps as they keep popping out.

Play Ding Dong Ditch. Ring your neighbor's door bell and hide and then jump out and go "ragh."