What have people said to you that made you suspect AS?

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Something about being unsociable and blissed out on eucalyptus leaves.

"For someone who is supposed to be so smart, you sure are stupid about relationships."

This reminds me of something a boss said one day during a meeting. He was reprimanding the whole office for spending too much time on personal phone calls (the job required almost no phone time). He jumped on everybody, but about me he said "Cindy never uses her phone. I wonder sometimes if she's even here."

Am I the only one who finds that people just come out and ask (or suggest in another way) if I've got Autism? The second time probably wouldn't have been so bad if I'd known her for more than 5 minutes.

You have no friends. Why?
"You have no common sense"
Look at people when their speaking to
It's good to expand your instrests
I'm tried of you always being in a world of your own (my mum when she's cross)
You ask to many questions
Do you have staring problems?
Your very quiet. Are you ok? Me: yes Girls: We like it when you r talking
Walk probably
Ssh! Be quite!
Speak up.
How come you are talk loudly with your friends but not with me?

People said many things to me,but if I write everything it would take me the whole day.There are worst ones(mostly from my mum and other kids from school):
You are a social ret*d.
You are in your own world.
You have book smarts but not common sense.
Why you listen the same song all the time?
Why do you look so lost?
Why do you read all the time?
You are going to live your life alone with 100 cats.
Something is wrong with you.
You are not normal.
Were you born yesterday?

Well, I guess I'm late to posting on this thread.

Here's my input, though:

"Shhh."
"Stop talking (so loud)"

"Why don't you want to talk?"
"Make some friends!"
"C'mon, you know she's hot..."

"What did you say?"
"Stop mumbling!"

"You're being rude with that posture/gesture"
This one led me to quite some trouble with my father. I tend to bend my neck and even roll my eyes as if in thought during conversations. He thought I was being sassy.

"Say hi to ..."

"Are you deaf?"
"How many times do I have to tell you?"
"Daniel? Daniel?!... I called your name a million times!"

"Pay attention!"
"Finish your homework"
"Grow up!"

"You're a hopeless child... I tell you to finish your work and you end up daydreaming"
This one was really troubling in elementary school. I was diagnosed with ADHD, so that might be another explanation. Unfortunately some teachers weren't so nice, whatever the case. I remember crying the whole duration of recess. (Spring, lovely day, grade 6 (still elem. school))

I dropped out of advanced English because I failed to maintain the grade that year, so I moved from my supportive advanced English teacher to someone who really misunderstood me.

"Don't do that [rocking in seat], people will think you're autistic."
Said by father, clinical psychologist, to me, 1968.

Yep, me!

"If you don't mind me saying -- You have a lot of characteristics typical of adult women with Asperger Syndrome." I'd only spent a few hours around the guy, and in a social setting no less. I was more interested/intrigued than freaked out, though, and spent the next two hours or so answering questions and getting a crashcourse in introductory psychology/neurology.

Other than that, I get a LOT of the stuff webalina and mikassyna mentioned.

"You could have Aspergers"
"You don't mix with kids your own age" (when I was younger)
"You have a very vivid imagination" - Anyone get this one?
"You are very vague in class" - and this one?
"You have the IQ of an adult"
"You're like a maths professor" - I don't even like maths!
"You are multi-talented"
"Don't say that, you're boring people"
"You're weird"
"What's wrong? You're pacing"
"Are you talking to yourself?"
"You really don't know much about women do you?"
"You're such a fussy eater"
"You really live in a bubble"
"You're off in your own world"
"You're so clumsy"

Half these things nobody remembers saying.

So many of the same things as already been posted it's weird, and sad and somehow "affirming" at the same time. Love reading them.

From really early in childhood ( "Pick your feet up" said my mother when I tripped over, aged about 6, and I actually picked one of my feet up, "Don't take things so literally" ), through my teens, ( my best friend said with great affection that I walked like a kangaroo, bouncing! ), thousands of comments about almost all the things people have already posted ... and yet I never thought of autism or aspergers ...

... until someone on a forum, only the second I ever joined, ( the first was Runescape :lol ) in April-May 2007, ( and which I was having a hard time on ), suggested ( very kindly, sympathetically, in a pm ) that perhaps the reason why I had got so many hostile and incomprehending reactions on the board was that I was "introvert", which I almost instantly googled to death ...

... ( I was stunned because I had thought of myself as extrovert most of my life ... even though it took my drinking and getting stoned to maintain any social life etc ), and in doing so came across Wrong Planet ... WOW!
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"I've been writing software for autistic testing at the university. Do you realize that you are text book Asperger's?"

Didn't believe him for a couple of years until I saw an "Ingenious Minds" marathon.

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Don't know if this is a sign or not my friend says that I watch her speak and repeat the last word she's said but i do this with people when they talk slow and i want them to hurry up, and that if something needs done that I haven't done before I need to watch someone else do it first before I get it I do this all the time I watch what people do then copy then with tasks, and that I'm very sensitive to noise and I flinch a lot, I can't explain a lot what I'm feeling.

"You're talking very loud"

"Is it my turn to talk yet?"

"You always ruin jokes" (because I either don't laugh or ask too many questions to understand)

"That was sarcasm by the way" (because I took what they said literally)

"You're no fun"

"You're a party pooper"

"No, I didn't hear anything" (after I say, "did you hear that?" to an extremely quiet noise that I can only hear)

"You always eat the same thing. Why don't you try something new?"

"I'll let you decide what we eat because you're the only one that cares"

"You decide what we do because you're the only one that cares"

"Why do you say sorry so much?"

"Why don't you ever want to hang out?"

That's actually only half my list.

You're Autistic, it's pretty obvious!

" you take everything litterary"
"you always think in black and white"
"you interrupt conversatuons frequently"
"you always melt down if there is a transition"
"you cant handle surprises"
"you hate change"
"you dont stop talking, until you say EVERYTHING you know about that subject"
"you dont get jokes"
"you always overreact"