Which is your most autistic trait?

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I stopped head-banging around age 6; now I do the rocking/swaying thing or at night, I twist my leg back and forth ( I'm told this is highly annoying; I think having me talk all night because I can't sleep would be even more annoying, but maybe I'm a better conversationalist than I dared to hope) I'm afraid I do interrupt quite a bit. Does anyone else get into comfort rituals that are absolutely iron-clad until they suddenly aren't anymore? (the last 2 months I was a homesick au pair in Paris---I decided I had to do something radical to break out of my high school agoraphobia, if I was to go to University--I ate nothing but oatmeal and raisins, every meal, every day. Then, one day, Ididn't need or want it again.) Before I knew about Asperger's, I had an autistic godson, Ace, and almost all of his behaviors seemed a) familiar and b) perfectly logical, if you merely expanded your parameters a little. I could explain to his mother, my best friend, what he was doing and sometimes why he was doing it. " Think of being on an extremely intense acid trip you can never come down from and tell me how you would react to stimulation? " I kept saying, if they had a highly verbal, extremely antisocial, somewhat functioning autism, I would be that...VOILA! Diagnose it and they will come...

My tics and the way i talk. I get a lot worse when i am around a lot of people.

My obsession with sports statistics, followed by my inability to communicate my feelings to even people that understand me.

I do stim a lot, but I try to keep it private.

Where's sensory? That's the one both my husband and I would choose. Of the list offered, I chose interrupting.

I don't chew the skin around my nails, but pick at it constantly. I mean all the time, I can't stop till its hurts. I have to cover it with a bandaid so I can't get at it anymore.

Being an insensitive robot.

I picked stimming (no pun intended), but interrupting is a very, very close second.

Social difficulties (not only poor social skills but also a lack of desire to be among others), a strong need to know a logical reason of everything, body language which almost doesn't exist.

I picked rocking/swaying, although my finger clicking is a very close second.

It's funny with the interupting thing, because as a child around my grandparents it was a lot of "speak when spoken to" and "seen and not heard", so now, in shops, at work, with friends, I tend to wait idly by until someone comes up to me, or, if I am feeling sarcastic, I raise my hand. I have a feeling that last one is a latent symbol of defiance...

I do chew the skin around my finger tips and anywhere else that needs getting to, not so much a nail biter, although I am obssessed with getting any dirt out from underneath them.

Socially I am terrible, so my boss/partner has decided to make it her mission to make me date-able. I am not amused.

Terrible at picking up the signals that NTs give off, especially the ones that mean "you can go now". That was one class I DEFINATELY missed.

My current quirk is having elastic bands in my pocket. Sometimes I put a couple on my wrists, and s**t, does it freak the easily freaked out or what? They are akin to a security blanket for when new or disliked people are around.

As I am verbally unable to express my true feelings to the object of my desires, I write them down in the form of a song. If I can't write a song, then I go into shutdown until I am done.

I do not like the saying "don't let the cat out of the bag". What the hell is that all about? Why is there a cat in a bag? And what has it done that warrants it's future incarceration? If you want me to keep something secret, either do not tell me, or tell me not to tell anyone! Do not bring cats into an already complex situation! Is this the same cat that was put amongst the pigeons? Are these pigeons the birds of a feather that stick together? How come many hands make light work, but too many cooks spoil the broth? It is not just English that is full of this pish, the Chinese have "a rolling stone gathers no moss". So what? AAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHH!! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

My most noticeable are probably interrupting and staring. I've gotten much better at not interrupting but if I get excited about the conversation, I forget and start doing it.

With the staring, I tend to either star off into space (or at interesting ceiling tile patterns or birds if I'm outside) or I forget that you're supposed to look away from people every once in a while while talking to them. The eye contact thing I have to pay attention to - I either have a hard time looking someone in the eye or a hard time not staring at them.

Stimming is only an issue when I'm really stressed. I've always had issues biting the nails. I've found that it's much easier when I get regular manicures. I'll also pace if I'm on the phone. Sometimes I rock forward and backward on the balls of my feet, but if I'm that bad at work I usually just go bum a cigarette from someone and it seems to serve as a stim for me.

I fiddle with everything.

By fiddling, do you mean constantly touching and moving things around? If you do, then yes, I tend to do that alot.