Sniffing out fellow autistics

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This is my second rant of the day. Cursed my being tired!

I hope this isn't a topic I've already done, and as part of my cutting to the chase policy, here goes.

I've started at my college an Autism Speaks U chapter and this girl who I sort of know asks how I could get involved, and then tells me she's autistic. And I have a slight hard time believing her as she's really popular, is somewhat the life of the party and so on.

So, saying this, I'm starting to think that we come in all shapes and sizes, and that people who might be popular at school might be on the spectrum. It's definitely rare, but I guess it's not uncommon. I used to think that I could "sniff out" people who are even slightly autistic, AS, any PDD for that matter. I correctly predicted a girl I hung out with is (that was last year).

Any comments?

I wouldn't peg her as a liar just yet. You have to really get to know her first.

When you've seen one Aspie, you've seen just one Aspie.

I hope that she's not interested in joining just because she thinks it may be currently fashionable to do so.

Time will tell.

You get a diagnosis when it affects you greatly, it doesn't sound like shes affected at all, but let her get involved anyway: never turn down help.

Maybe she has patchy social skills, kind of like I do? (I'm good at political activism, not so much on being 'popular.' So, maybe she has her own particular area of patchy skills?)

I thought I'd bring a old topic back from the dead. Turns out she's not lying. I've hung out with her a few times and she makes the cut for being on the spectrum, albeit barely.

I guess that came off a little harsh, sorry. It sounded like I was trying to reprimand you, but that wasn't my intention. I was just trying to point out there could be a lot about her that you don't know, and surface appearances are never anything to go by. But I'm sure you get the message.

Degree of functioning and degree of autism may be correlated but they are not directly proportional (especially in adults).

If a girl is attractive, she don't really need to do much to be popular, other than go with the crowd.

It's not that a blind person can't drive a car, it's just so incredibly rare, that they haven't driven into a brick wall by the time there 20.

Face it.
Some aspies just have ADHD ADD or some variant of PDD that is not classical aspergers

I met a definite aspie today working on the main counter at City Hall!
All the classic symptoms and generic aspie appearance