why do aspies look like like theyre on drugs?

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People telling me that they think that I am drugged when I am not - yes, this has happened to me... Later, it occurred to me that as I was expected to look drugged, that if drugged for real no one would notice, and they did not.

I almost forgot one occasion. I was living on a military base, and I went out for cigarettes at like midnight one night. The closest store opened was like a mini mart a couple of blocks from the gate on base. So, I go there, and I see an MP following behind and they go to the mini mart too. I go to the counter and order my cigarettes with an MP behind me (and I even remember his name). Then I leave and proceed to the gate to get back on, and they were behind me by about a minute. The guy at the gate asked me to pull over to be searched. I assumed it was a random search until he said, "yeah, I know it's aweful, but the guys driving around told me they saw you smoking and they didn't know what it was." I said "if he were smart or observant at all, he'd know it was a Marlboro light 100 from a box considering he was standing right behind me when I purchased them. would you like one?" It's funny too, I was once talking to an MP friend of mine, and he was saying how he hates that people thinks cops are stupid. I told him, well MPs are MPs because they didn't score that high on the ASVAB.

Oh yeah, my friends prefer me drunk than sober. I think it's because I let loose and relax, and I get amused easily, even by stupid conversations.

Avoidance of eye contact, stimming, apparent ignoring of social cues - all could spectrum or chemically affected.


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@MemberSix Tweakers can look like they're stimming.

The last sort of relationship I was involved in, I was told to clean up as I looked like a stoner. Have never smoked a joint in my life.

do they?
with all due respect, i would query that. i looked at a whole host of photos of aspies in the intro section of WP and my feeling is we look like a normal cross-section of the population. this explodes some myths concerning archetypal aspie presentations....and i am happy about that. we range from looking super-straight through to super-bent. that is a good thing. HAHA - the stereotypical assumptions break down yet again.

I use drugs and my dealer say's I don't look like a druggie.
You really can't tell. Some people that don't use look like they do and some people that do look like they don't. I am aspie btw.

I don't think accusations of 'being on drugs' are about physical attributes - or lack of eye contact (people on drugs don't have eye-contact issues).

I believe it's mostly about choice of off-beat conversational subject matter, lack of facial expressivity, perhaps atypical vocal expression - but as much as any of this, a simple means of saying 'you're weird' ... personally, I'd rather someone just told me I was weird than spread vicious rumours that I'm on narcotics - which raises all kinds of other issues.

Yes I agree.
Fortunately, I don't have that expression or it is not very noticable but I have heard other people remark "silly cow" to people who have that weird expression.
Perhaps some aspies do come across like they are prescription pill poppers but I have never noticed.

No, I don´t think I´ve ever been told that I look like I´m on drugs...even when I was on drugs! (Short phase, as a teenager. This was- ya know- the 70s).

I have been told on several occasions that I come across like a 60´s flower child, anti-war, "save the whales" type of personality. Does that count?