Your quirkiest aspie quirk

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The most embarrassing is adding sound effects to my day to day life.

I do this too!! !

I really hate jewellery and shiny things, especially earrings. Yuck!

I don't have any quirks.

Even though I live alone and I live in the country (its very quiet) I wear earplugs at night.

I also tend to be very gullible. Though that was more so as a kid. I do wring my hands together quite often especially when I'm nervous, and I generally always like having something in them. I.E. playing cards etc.

I have a very strong dislike of injustice and being misunderstood.

I don't like the number 7. And no, it's not because "7 ate 9". I'm not sure why I don't like it. Maybe because it's sharp and pointy-looking?

I create my own cartoon characters and they are like friends and family members to me, and I love them more than most real people.

I love many cartoon and video game characters more than most real people.

I love many toys and plushies more than most real people.

I hate shopping for clothes and footwear. But I lucked out pretty well when my mother took me shopping for new winter boots and sneakers a couple months ago.

I like the look of sparkly jewelry, but I don't like wearing it.

Even though I'll be turning 43, next month, I look forwards to my birthday because my parents traditionally spend the weekend spoiling me.

If someone says something that I agree with, I will reply, "You know what I mean?" in agreement. If someone says something that I want to clarify or expand on, I will start my reply with, "I mean..." It is almost as if I need to remind myself that, as much as I agree with the person's statement, I did not say it.

I do not know many people who use sign language to practice with, and, since it is a visual language and I cannot mentally visualize, I practice by replaying old conversations or rehearsing new conversations "out loud" (signing to myself) even when out in public. People must think I am a deaf schizophrenic.

I tend to daydream a lot, about things I desire. I guess this isn't related to Asperger's, but it may be enhanced by it. My dreams are quite old-fashioned, a cute girl with two braids, an innocent look in her eyes. We'll be in some place I've always had a soft spot for like Tallinn, coastal Greek towns, or Myrtle Beach.

I sometimes talk to squirrels, make their little chirp click noises. A few times I have gotten them to shake hands. I understand animals I can talk to them without talking.

I have always done that with all tiles, although I do it less obsessively now.

When I was younger, I used think out loud a lot while playing or drawing....when I have to perform a task , I gave myself verbal instructions from a second persons point of view....I was a good teacher and a bad student at the same time...
Nowadays.... I couldn't really call any of my rituals as quirks, more like nasty habits...

I have done this too! Not so much out in public, but I definately have signed to myself when I'm thinking deeply about something, it helps me think without having to do any actual words. I did used to practice fingerspelling at school. We have a two-handed alphabet in England, and I used to practise spelling long words and books of the Bible as I was walking from class to class.

I also escape into my head a lot, but I'm not sure how much people notice that. Sometimes if I'm going over a conversation in my head, I start involuntarily saying words out loud. I used to try to fight it, but since being diagnosed, I have found that letting it out and just repeating it is actually very theraputic. This mostly happens when I'm walking to and from work or somewhere.

I am the opposite of liveandrew- I love anything shiney and sparkley! It makes me soooooo happy.
And the smell of a new book is very high on the list, but for me the best is having a brand new plastic umbrella- it smells amazing and being under a see-through plastic dome of roundness is just wow.

You foul spawn of satan!



Yes! Although, we had a book in our school library called "Dangerous Diseases" that used to stink of sick. That was not a nice book to sniff!



That plastic smell is nice. I recently bought a new stress ball and spent more time sniffing it than squeezing it. By the way, it's an excellent ball and once that can cope with my heavy-handedness.

I knew an NT who worked with deaf people and she often signed to herself when thinking. People who live alone are prone to talking to themselves. When we rehearse something to say mentally, the muscle control circuits get engaged as part of the process, but are usually inhibited by the sleep-time cutout. Unheard words are more thoroughly practised.

I've read that people on the spectrum can be very naiive, but I have a very hard time trusting or believing people I don't know. When someone I don't know calls me up on the phone, my "stranger danger" alarm goes off, and I get nervous or angry. They could be calling to get information from me so they can ruin my life or wreck my computer.

I don't trust psychiatrists and hate them because of all the hell they put me through by changing my medications constantly and lying about their side effects. The one I see every few months now seems nice and all, but that doesn't change the way I feel about them. Especially when he decided the only way to help my emotional distress after our last meeting was to "slightly" increase my medication.

I don't trust caretakers because there are so many horror stories of them being abusive to the people they're supposedly caring for. People who can't defend themselves or get help because of their age or from illness or disability. One time a few years ago when I was watching TV the news had just come on and they showed footage of an elderly woman being beaten by a caretaker, it was horrible. My grandmother is in a home now but I guess she's doing okay, I've never been to it but she doesn't show signs of physical and emotional trauma when she visits my parents and me. I hope I never have to be put in any kind of a home. Again.

I'm not sure if this is an "aspie" quirk or just something I do.

From time to time I get a strong urge to tense all my muscles, pull a really strange face and do a crazy little dance for a few seconds. I can generally control the urge, but let myself do it when I'm at home alone. I will occasionally indulge while my wife and kids are at home. They sometimes laugh in a good natured way, thinking that I'm trying to be silly and entertaining.

Usually I'm frustrated or down when I do this.