is she aspie?

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i once had a coworker in a store whom now that i look back im sure was an aspie. first off she was very polite yet awkward but still very nice she also was very set on routine never once was late or early... always sat in the same seat on her break and read a book. i also know that she has suffered with an eating disorder i think anorexia and cutting. she has also been hospitalized for depression. yet she is not rebellious and never breaks the rules in fact she loves nothing more than crocheting and reading jane austen books. she is amazing at crocheting btw. she was not a tomboy but did not dress conventional kind of like a puritan. she made eye contact but it looked forced. she had one or two friends that i know of and was awkward and a loner. also when a loud bell rang once she covered her ears and is startled easily. she also has a dark and morbid side and likes depressing things. so what do you think i think so

It doesn't matter.

Though the response was rather blunt, and non-explanatory, I tend to agree with jmnixon95. You "once had a coworker" indicates you no longer work with her, and don't really know here that well. Speculating on people you have no interaction with is rather pointless. I realize it's a curiosity thing, but what does it matter? Really? Knowing or not knowing won't change anything for you.

But that's not all. From your own description, you didn't really know her anywhere near well enough for anyone here to form a valid opinion one way or the other. What you've given here is simply not enough to go on.

We can't really tell for sure. Although some people on here like to think that they can.

I think that to try to diagnose a living person against their will or without seeking consent may be a step onto a slippery slope which leads into the abyss. The slippery slope has a shape like the Lennard-Jones potential graph, it starts off shallow but each step you take makes it steeper and harder to escape the deep well.

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Diagnosed under the DSM5 rules with autism spectrum disorder, under DSM4 psychologist said would have been AS (299.80) but I suspect that I am somewhere between 299.80 and 299.00 (Autism) under DSM4.

There is, howsomever, a difference between diagnosing and classifying.

For better or worst, I am a taxonomy freak, and for that and purely practcal reasons I latch onto anything that gives a better more powerfuklly explanatory account of why I inteact with A THUS and with B SO.

You are definitely describing autistic traits there, though the people who are saying, "We've never met her, how the heck are we supposed to diagnose her?" are right. She may be broader autism phenotype rather than fully autistic, or her traits could come from some other source, but we couldn't tell.

It doesn't really matter. If she's AS, she might come out and tell you, or she might not.