Do you look autistic/weird to other people?

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when I was a little girl, I had this 'British Accent'. I didn't know it, I couldn't hear it, but I remember people commenting on it to my mother who was embarrassed, as neither side of the family as far back as four generations had been further out of Kansas than Colorado.

Yeah me too sinsboldly, to this day I occasionally get "so where are you from?" from people around the area where I was born and raised.

I can also relate to the drug thing. Most of my teachers in middle school thought I was all sorts of high all the time, as did my class mates. Worked for me, better then them knowing the truth in that scenario.

Perhaps, but I could care less.

that must be nice. ~sigh~ but I have to work to support myself and a cat that likes his dinner pretty regularly. I have to pretend I am 'normal' as long as I am out of the house.

I apparently sound like I'm from any of the following places:

*Cincinnati
*Florida
*California
*New York
*South Carolina

I've only lived in Texas and Indiana and no one can ever believe it

I act like a small child a lot haha. Not in personality, but in actions (like balancing on the wooden border like OP was talking about). I also sit in public with my knees pulled up in front of me a lot. I used to be self conscious about it (but I didn't want to stop- it's so much more comfortable!) but then I noticed that my friend's mother does this, and she's definitely not "neurotypical," but for WP's purposes, she's an NT

I find a lot of people just think I'm "quirky," and never seem to want to point out awkward things I do.
I think this is pretty interesting, as only two years ago I used to get tons of crap all the time for being awkward, weird, abnormal, etc. Many people had no problem voicing their opinions of how awkward I am. Thinking back on what changed, I found this just so happens to coincide with the year when I decided to finally start looking like a girl. I grew my hair out, started wearing makeup, and payed more attention to the clothes I wear and how I look. Apparently, being pretty excuses you from being awkward and offensive? Our society is terribly unfair.

That happened to me often enough that once someone who actually had drugs figured that and offered me some, I was curious enough to try them for a little while.

I've attracted police attention since my early teens which is unusual for a white girl. I don't go out alone much because they figure I got out of a group home and even if I am able to tell them I live alone they rarely believe me. Last time it happened I was sitting outside my own apartments waiting for staff.

I wrote in my blog (link) recently about growing up with very obvious sensory-influenced behavior and how I never actually passed for normal, people just didn't know autism so they came up with other explanations.

I hope people see me as weird, I'd hate to be seen as normal! In fact, I'd be ashamed if I was known to have normal tendencies!

I don't really know what I look like to other people, I guess I've never really thought about it I have been told I often look apathetic, tired, sometimes angry. In class the other day, our teacher said something that I thought a lot about....he said he could look at us and tell who just didn't give a damn, who didn't feel well, and who was paying attention. I figure whatever my face is saying probably doesn't describe what I'm actually feeling.

I love balancing on stuff!

I'm usually pretty active in the playground, but I prefer playing next to my son so I'll climb stuff and he'll imitate or watch. I still climb trees occasionally, which I guess is a little odd when you 28 and not drunk or high.

But the only comments I get are that I look tired or sad. Just yesterday when I went to my lecture a couple of classmates remarked I was "wearing my sad eyes". I wasn't sad, just in my own world.

Its my 'Blank Stare of Nothing' that causes friends and strangers to ask 'Are you ok?
- Yes I'm fine - this is my pleased to see you face (though I'm currently studying the piece of technology on the shelf behind you)

People also think I'm about 25, I've been dressing in baggy skater clothes since I was 15- so people ask if I'm at college and stuff until I tell them I did that 12 years ago.
I got refused the sale of wine in my local Supermarket two weeks ago.

This is me excecpt I usually only speak to someone strange when I have too. And then sometimes I don't respond like a NT would. I am playful and children usually speak or react to me before adults do. I'm often approached by children when I am out. I had always played with my children while they were growing up. I can be very intense. I love walking borders and I have been accused of being stoned without using drugs. I have a habit of sitting down on the floor and crossing my legs like a pretzel when I am reading something usually a book or magazine that interests me. I get so focused I forget where I am and what I'm doing. Usually another customer comes by and excuses themselves to me. I've done this as far back as I can remember. Some social norms are ridicules and boring anyway.

I'm not sure how I appear to others.

I sometimes catch myself looking a bit...slack-jawed. I think part of this is poor facial muslce tone, and part is bad allergies which often necessitate mouth-breathing. Others have remarked that I often seem to be looking in the wrong place during interaction. Sometimes I find myself staring at the floor or off into space when looking elsewhere would be more appropriate.

I don't know how I appear to other people.

^^same.

I've been told I always have a blank, cold stare on my face. Some people percieve this to be attitude, but my friends say I'm just misunderstood.