Other aspies as different as NT:s?

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Do you feel that when you meet other aspies they tend to be as different to you as NT people?
Any difference if they are male / female in that respect?

(refering to IRL meetings)

Last edited by Keyman on 16 Apr 2012, 11:04 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Autism doesn't define you.

Everyone seems pretty similar on this forum. I haven't really had the chance (unless it happened and I hadn't known) to meet any other Aspie in person.

Well, not entirely similar... I can't really explain at all. -.-

I mean in real life face-to-face meeting

I do remember meeting one person. He was very critical and arrogant, in public, from what I could gather. He was different in the sense that he "wore a mask" around people who were not close to him. He was sensitive and less arrogant when we were not around other people, because he took the mask off. I can only guess that it was his defense from being treated poorly by others. He did not seem really like anyone else I had met that was neurotypical. We were very different, so yes, he was different like someone who wasn't on the spectrum... in most ways. We did have a lot of the same interests, but I'm not really sure what you're wanting to know from this post.

"if you have met one aspie, you have met one aspie"

in my experience, two random aspergers are at least as different from one another as two random NT's are, although slightly less then the difference between an aspie and an NT; on average

This!