Does Autism have some distinct facial features?

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I have noticed that many Aspies have a certain look about them. Though I do think that that study is unreliable.

The kids are cute and have kind of a 'grown up' look. However I can't see how this study is significant. Even if the faces are a pattern, it only covers a few autistics. My sons are all somewhere on the spectrum and only one had this kind of look. And then of course, his face looked like a composite of his grandfathers' faces. My face certainly doesn't fit the pattern, except for the big mouth and big head for my great brain!

It's not that I'm arguing against it, but there is always a study on everything every day, and one tells you one thing then something else tells you the complete opposite, so you don't really know what to believe.

And sometimes WP can be a bit like the weather forecast; some threads say Aspies do one thing, then a few months later a thread springs up saying that it's an NT thing to do exactly what the earlier thread was about, and you're like ''OK, I thought that was an Aspie thing''.
''Do Aspies prefer to keep things tidy?'' A few months later ''do NTs prefer to keep things tidy?'' Huh?

This is a very interesting topic, and any news will be welcome by me.

Here are pictures of some people with AS:

Heather Kuzmich:



Craig Nicholls:



Alexis Wineman:



Dan Aykroyd:



I think some of them (if not all) break the pattern in one way of another.

Didn't the study look at childhood facial features, not adult ones?

(The one trait commonly associated with ASDs I can relate to is that I look young for my age.)

Considering that most of us seem to wear glasses, according to this poll: wrongplanet. net/postt154893.html

It makes sense that we also have wider eyes because eyes that are short-sighted are bigger: ssc.education.ed.ac. uk/resources/vi&multi/eyeconds/myop.html

Coincidentally, the reconstruction of the Neanderthal child fits the description.

rdos. net/neanderthal.jpg

[Note: I had to put a space in the URLs because I cannot post links yet.]

There's something about Heather Kuzmich's picture that makes it obvious that she has Autism, but I don't know what it is.

Superficial people always want to find a quick way to peg someone and it's usually not out of kindness but who to single out and pick on.

From this summary of Hans Aspergers original 1944 article:

http://www.paulcooijmans.com/asperger/a ... rized.html

You know I don't think it has a look. I do not look anything like those people, and I doubt we had childhood resemblance.