How do you recognize high-functioning Autism?

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So I've been playing the victim saying that nobody understands me. Then I had a shift in thinking: Why don't I try to recognize other individuals with Asperger's? But, how do I do that? I obviously can't respectfully go up to every person and ask if they're Autistic. I'm bound to get punched somewhere down the line.

You should read the "I may be an Aspie if....." thread.

I may be an Aspie if I talk on and on about the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, without knowing that the person whom I'm speaking to is in the nobility.

A spiderweb, pie chart, dart board, with a shape in the middle that looks something like a dogs head. And dots. NT's are blue, and aspies are red. What are you if your yellow? It doesnt say? That game doesn't make any sence. I will stick with checkers.

Get the hint?

As to the OP's question: I see it in people who are interested in/ think in terms of information (like myself), while similtaniously being dimbulb about "relational-to-other-people" kind of thinking (whatever that feels like...), very honest about both the good and the bad (although I think we can be very shut down about expressing ourselves as well), often when you talk to them their eyes go off in all kinds of directions, especially when they are speaking, (NT's see this as a sign of lying), usually not fashionably dressed according to current trends (excepting some Aspie women who take this on as a special interest, and then, baby, watch out!).