Are there real physical differences with Aspergers?

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Sometimes I feel like I have Loads of those attributes and it has made me really self conscious about my appearance x I have a flat wide head that to the side makes me look like my ear is far away back from the rest of my face, my lower jaw and mouth are big and it makes me look like I have a double chin. I have a sandal gap toe and my eyes are far apart and it makes me want to loose weight just to make me look as normal as possible. I don't think I have a high metabolism at all. But I feel deformed compared to the rest of my family and everyone I know x

Plus I am not flexible at all and my motor skills are terrible I am a recipe for disaster lmao x

There is some comorbidity I guess.

I am near-sighted, therefore I wear glases. I have almost "sleeping" asthma (meaning that the older I get, the rarer are the asthma bursts or reactions. When I was younger, asthma was more of a problem) and have nose allergy. At the other side, I have a cold sometimes (but not more often than NTs, I guess).

I look younger, about 8-10 years younger than I am. I am almost 47 but many people think I am 35-40 something.

When I lay my fingers in the line of my under arm, my index finger is longer than my ring finger (the fourth finder starting counting at my thumb). Of many males the index finger is short than the ring finger. In case of women they are of equal length, but my index finger is second longer.

My tongue is pretty long, rough and thick, almost as long as my index finger, although I don't look like Gene Simmons.

No, I am physically normal.

i didnt know there was physical diferences with asd?

i dont have all these physical features others have mentioned about here. i have issues with my stomach and bowels but that related to stress not the autism itself. well my husbands best friend suffers with ibs a lot too but doesnt suffer from stress nor is a stressy person and he is nt, so i dont know, some people just get more upset tummy than others.

There are a handful of studies that suggest a possibility of phyiscal diffferences. There are entire "alternative" websites dedicated to the concept as well.

While at least some ASDs have a good chance of being a processing difference in the brain, the case for actual phyiscal differences is quite weak.

RDOS might have his own thoughts on the matter, since he collects at least some phyiscal description data from his quiz.

My left hand and wrist are both extremely double jointed. It scares most people but I like it And possibly the healing things. But definitely the joints are messed up which is really cool

I have the crease on my earlobes , Mine go diagonally and make me look like I have four lobes

I have mouth asymmetry. But my jaw sits more to the right and more forward than it should . I tend to put my bottom teeth in front of my top to relax my jaw muscles . plus I put them in front I look like I have a bad over bite and no chin. I cant eat like this for obvious reasons so have to force my jaw back to chew but then don't have a lot of front to back movement left.

My left eye is further from my nose than my right .

I have a strange shaped head . I have a high forehead but it then slopes back down sharply then gently slopes back up to the back of my head , I also have the occipital bun. My head shape is a lot like some took the back of a Neanderthal skull and stuck a human forehead on it.

I also have quite strong bones . The only time I have ever had a bad brake as a kid wasn't really a break . I jumped over a hale and grabbed something halfway over and forgot to let go . So I spun all the way over and still had not let go . My arm ended up bending the wrong way and my hand was the wrong way around . I did not actually feel a single thing and just thought it looked quite funny . I popped home and shouted for my mum at the door "mum I broke my are" In a calm way . She shouted back " no you have not " in that way mums do when they are very pee'd off . When she did see it though she nearly screamed, I thought that was very funny too
The only other bone I broke was on my face . I guess the force of a brick hitting me in the face at high speed was just too much for my bones to take. I never blacked out though even though the force knocked me off my feet and made me hit the back of my head on concreter , I just got up and tried to walk to the nearest docs office ( forgetting it was Sunday and they were closed) .I have never been knocked out in my life .
I was once hit by a car . I destoyed his bumper with my right shin ,his hood with my face , His windscreen with the top of my head . Then flipped over the car on to the road with the back of my head . The only result for me was me getting up and running off. and having a bruise on my shin for a few days .I went for CT scan yesterday and am interested to see if it shows anything as I never had one before.

I am quite muscular even though I do not do much of anything physical .
I heal from cuts and stuff a lot faster than anyone I know . My nails and hair grow quicker than the should . I never get pain from injuries ( even though now at forty I seem to hurt all over for nothing) I once notice a lump of wood stuck to the bottom of my shoe and didn't realise a nail in it had gone right through my foot until I had trouble getting it off.
My middle fingers curve towards my ring finger
I have two hair whorl that makes my hair stick right up in the middle, I have to cut it all off or grow it long.
My face hair all grows towards the right
The last thing is I think my spine might be twisted as my body dose not line up.

Most things about me seem strange, even to me

I had my tonsils removed at a early age. I am double jointed and have very strong bones. I also don't get sick often as I have a strong immune system.
I can flex my right index finger over my hand, which looks very abnormal.

I don't often get many colds and I am completely immune to tummy bugs (I live with 3 NTs and they don't often get colds either and they are completely immune to tummy bugs, we're just healthy people). How's that to do with AS?

Anyway it said in another thread somewhere that it's an ''Aspie/Autistic thing'' to have weak immune system.

If everything listed in this stupid thread was to do with AS then what isn't? NTs must be humanless socialising robots, according to this thread.

Me and my (NT) mum read through this whole thing today and we both laughed our heads off. Especially the part about ''can bend fingers right back'' (I think it's listed somewhere in this thread). She said she can do that.

if all these unusual physical traits are so persistant then how come i have never been diagnosed but downs syndrome babies are diagnosed at birth because of the way they look and their unusual physical features?

i think sometimes here people want to be diferent from others so much they make up all these physical traits, even things what anybody can have like strong immune system or blue eyes or big hands or something .