I can tell when people are autistic

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Really i can its freaky but its true. cause the playgroup i go to i thought someone who worked there was autistic and it turned out that he was freaky hey!

I've seen and occasionally met people that I suspected were somewhere on the spectrum. Not all of them were geeks and very few were ret*d. In fact, the last one I spotted was this one girl in her eary '20s that was fairly hot.

I can tell when people are autistic,too.For soem reason whenever I geuss that someone is mentally ill I'm usually right.For some reason I have trouble telling if someone is Asperger's or ADHD.

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I suppose I'm fairly good at spotting various disorders (those I am familiar with that is).

With autties, for me a big tip off is if the other person has difficulty with reciprocal communication. Included in that would be if they continue to go back to a certain topic such as an interest, a peeve, or themselves (not in a grandiose or ego-building fashion though).

The way of speaking seems to be the biggest tip off I can tell.

I can spot ADD. Then again, everyone's ADD nowadays.

Sometimes I feel I can spot possible ASDs in writing. It's hard to explain, I know it when I see it, but I think one of the differences is the way random technical/detailed facts are placed into paragraphs, when sentences get chopped off, etc. I have friends on the spectrum, and sometimes when I'm on the internet, reading some webpages (usually pages regarding the more common "stereotyped patterns of interest"), I'll notice that something in the writing seems different--but very much alike the way my friends who are on the spectrum write. I don't think all people with ASDs write this way, but many do. And I'll think "hmmm, maybe that person is on the spectrum?"

I see it sometimes on WP, but not a lot...I think it may be more of a LFA/MediumFA thing than an AS/HFA thing.

With people I know fairly well, I can tell if they have autistic tendancies, though they may not quite be on the spectrum. However, I am convinced that one of the math teachers at the school I attend is an aspie or HFA...

I seem to be very accurate at spotting autistic people as well.

AS_Interlocking, throw us an example of writing that you pick as "different". Just curious about what you think of as weird writing.

I think the more disjointed ones are what he is refering to.

sentences that barely seem to be related to each other, I think.

Danlo, I don't want to quote others directly here because I don't want to offend anyone and be like "your writing is ASD," even though I do NOT think its weird, but Prometheus described what I'm talking about better in his reply than I could explain.

I don't know if I can identify other aspies or not. I often suspect people of being on the spectrum, but I don't know of any way to "break the ice" and find out. Walking up to someone and saying "excuse me, but do you have any neurological disorders?" seems like a great way to *end* a conversation (not to mention getting a black eye). The other issue, of course, is that many aspies don't know they are aspies, so their denial could be both innocent and incorrect.

FWIW, my best (and only) friend when I was a teen is also an aspie. Neither of us knew anything about autism back in the 70's and early 80's, and at the time it seemed rather strange that we would get along so well with each other while being essentially incapable of dealing with the rest of the world on anything more than a superficial level. It was a bit surreal when I called him to tell him about my diagnosis and found out he already had his....

"Do you take any prescription medications???"