Does Anyone Else Have An Aspie Radar?

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I spotted 4 people on the spectrum yesterday. I was waiting for a social group leader to show up, and when these people started arriving, I told my NT friend that I bet they were on the spectrum. Later, I introduced myself to them, and they were! Has anyone else found that they can identify other aspies or auties?

Mine seems to be lacking. Lot of them seem normal to me. They have to be really really bad on the spectrum for me to see. Bad as Simon from Mercury Rising, and they have to be really out there. I went to the ASAN yesterday and all of them seemed normal to me. I did see one of them cover her ears and rocked back and forth when I was talking and that was it. The rest of the time, she acted normal. Just because I say someone is normal doesn't mean I am denying their condition. Even I say I'm normal.


I suspected someone online being aspie because of what he said about himself. Turns out I was right and he did have it. He went to someone and she said he does.

I knew another kids in elementary school and he might have had it. I knew since I was nine he was different but I didn't know he had a condition. I didn't even see him as normal and here I was struggling to be normal while the kid wasn't even trying to fit in. He must have been happy the way he is and had no desire to be like everyone else and I did.

I thought maybe my ex had it too but no I got told by my aspie friends he was an a**hole.

I started to think my second ex might have it and I was right. He scored high on the aspie quiz and he went to the doctors here in Portland said he does have it but couldn't make it official. I thought that was good enough. Why make it official. So the doctors up on the hill said he did have it. Good enough. No need to have papers saying what is wrong with you.

If it were a year earlier, I would have said "no". I've learned so much since then, that it comes automatically now. I don't even have to think about it anymore.....I just 'notice'. Sometimes I think that if I had more people skills, I would make a good shrink.

A lot of times I find myself saying "Yeah, I'll bet that has asperger's too," but I never have the audacity (or even find it appropriate) to ask them.

So I'm not too sure how good my radar is, but I definitely have it. If for no other reason, I think I do it to try and find people like me-- to try and find someone that I have something in common with. However, at 20, not too many people have seen a shrink, so even if they did have it, it's unlikely that they would know or even have ever heard of asperger's.

It's real easy to learn, and I can teach anybody to do it. All you have to do is click on "Profile" and.....

I have seventeen antennas.
I built them.
They are attached through the skin of my head to my cranium and help me search out other aspies wherever i go. (do you think my techno-machinated appearance might also be a dead giveaway? )

lol millie, your posts are great today.

thanks lovely pensieve. always great to see your avatar around. I have had a full day in the studio painting and am happy. you know - the kind of happy that comes with special interest obsession. very pure.
I've been suicidal for a while on and off - the usual - so it is good to feel normal and ok.

((((((((((Millie)))))))))) I hope you feel better soon. I've been having alot of depression myself lately.

cheers and thanking you chatbrat.
now i shall cease and desist before i hijack the thread.....yikes......
and good luck also with your depression....

I do get strong suspicions about some people although I don't see how to go about finding out if I'm correct or not. It's not like I'm just going to go up and ask them if they are or not. Although I have heard two people mention it in a class I was also in that I suspected so I would guess that my aspie radar is pretty good.

I really don't.

I can think of one person I know who I've actually ever suspected. He's only an acquaintance so I've never asked. I know he has OCD and I've noticed he doesn't make much eye contact (I'm not sure how I managed to notice that since I don't either ). That's it.

Otherwise, the people who I know have AS, I would not likely have suspected beforehand. I know one person with a PDD-NOS diagnosis who I might notice is "unusual" but I doubt I'd have figured out that she's on the spectrum. The other people I know, who have AS, I would never have guessed. They seem completely normal to me.

I'm good at spotting them. Me and my friend call it "a-dar". When I was at college on thursday I spotted a few, there was this boy standing infront of me when waiting to get served in the canteen, and he only had to speak a few words and my a-dar was picking up signals.
Me and my friend have this injoke where if an aspie at school walk past me and my friend we say "beep beep beep" quietly and put our hands above our head like it's a satelite dish. We only do that if they can't see us of course.

next plan is to be build some kind of radio or tv tower sized radar......big, grey, metal....scan the city for the little critters....track em down, chase em out of hide and home.........

round em up