How many of these 63 autistic traits apply to you?

This was posted recently on the 'Autism From The Inside' channel and I found myself agreeing to so much of it. It's light hearted and worth a watch, far better than any pathological lists of autistic traits.
  1. Always wearing bright colours.
  2. Hating phone calls.
  3. Not realizing you're hungry or thirsty.
  4. Not replying to a text message, but thinking about it for a week until eventually deciding that it's kind of probably too late to reply anyway.
  5. Hating wearing socks or just seams in clothing in general.
  6. Having an atypical sense of humour.
  7. Telling the truth even when you probably shouldn't.
  8. Feeling out of sync with everyone else in your group.
  9. Having an aversion to or an obsession with popular culture.
  10. Over-planning everything.
  11. Not having a strong sense of gender.
  12. Feeling tired all the time for no good reason.
  13. Not liking being told what to do.
  14. Did you teach yourself to read before your first day of school?
  15. Finding comfort in repetition and routine.
  16. Struggling with crowds.
  17. Seeing people as people and kind of forgetting about social class and expectations and all that kind of stuff.
  18. Having super sensitive hearing.
  19. Having a high pain tolerance.
  20. Over apologizing and assuming everything must be your fault.
  21. Not caring what people think.
  22. Being really good at something that is completely useless.
  23. Being deadpan sarcastic all the time.
  24. Preferring face-to-face communication to avoid misunderstanding.
  25. Struggling to find an appropriate gap in group conversation.
  26. Constant background anxiety.
  27. Being overly empathic.
  28. Relating to animals better than you relate to humans.
  29. Avoiding trying new things.
  30. Eating the same food every day.
  31. Finding inappropriate things funny.
  32. Not liking to be touched.
  33. A tendency to notice small details.
  34. Hating fluorescent lights and downlights.
  35. Always wanting to understand why.
  36. Enjoying repetition.
  37. Thinking in pictures.
  38. Having a flat affect, also known as resting *** face.
  39. Preferring to pace up and down instead of sitting still.
  40. Liking to imitate other people.
  41. Having a favourite thing that goes with you everywhere.
  42. Getting excited and interrupting people.
  43. Going over social interactions again and again in your head even after they've happened.
  44. Seeing patterns in everything.
  45. Having a very, very good memory for some things and a terrible memory for other things.
  46. Preferring nonverbal forms of communication.
  47. Hating to brush your teeth.
  48. Having a monotone voice.
  49. Difficulty identifying your emotions because they feel like they're all jumbled together.
  50. Getting overwhelmed by too many tasks at once.
  51. Watching the same movie or TV series over and over again.
  52. Feeling awkward in groups.
  53. Loving to think outside the box.
  54. Having brilliant ideas that no one else seems to be able to understand.
  55. Struggling to read between the lines in complex social situations.
  56. Preferring written communication because you can spend hours and hours perfecting and saying exactly what you want to say, in an attempt to try and avoid miscommunication.
  57. Two-speed productivity. Either super fast, super efficient, or nothing at all.
  58. Compartmentalizing experiences from different parts of your life.
  59. Feeling comfortable being alone.
  60. Being happy with very few material comforts.
  61. Always finishing what you start even when you should probably stop.
  62. Scripting conversations in advance or spending hours thinking about what you could have said even after the moment has passed.
  63. Being the kind of person who people think, how could someone so clever be so stupid?

I have counted 53 which apply to me, including the last one Grin

Feel free to add your score, discuss any of the items or suggest new additions to the list.

Parents
  • 49 for me. I was unsure about number 58 as I can sometimes, without wanting to, recall memories from my past from as young as 4 but I can’t really say that’s compartmentalising. 

    it’s a very interesting and affirming list of examples. I’ve imitated people so much now that I don’t really have my own identity anymore because I was always embarrassed about being me. I now am starting to not mask and letting people see the true me. Some examples almost brought a tear to my eye as well. 

    Have to say I detest popular culture, the way woman look with their lips done and huge black eyebrows. I know it’s personal preference but it just looks ridiculous to me, thankfully I’m gay so I don’t have to worry but if I were young and straight in this day and age of vanity, I would probably turn to homosexuality. 

    I also dislike materialistic attitudes and those people who go on about winning the lottery just grinds my gears. I said to someone once that if they won, would they help people, they said yes, I asked again would you(?). They came out and said I’d help my family. Sure I’d do the same in a similar predicament but I’d be setting up housing for homeless, as much mental health stations as possible and anyone who really needed the help I would help. I’ve helped someone in the past because they had kids and dogs, they also had emotional problems too and didn’t have a job, their kids were starving so with what little money I had I sent it to them. Whether or not it was a lie I didn’t care. Someone asked for help and I gave it. I would do the same for anyone if I could. 

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  • 49 for me. I was unsure about number 58 as I can sometimes, without wanting to, recall memories from my past from as young as 4 but I can’t really say that’s compartmentalising. 

    it’s a very interesting and affirming list of examples. I’ve imitated people so much now that I don’t really have my own identity anymore because I was always embarrassed about being me. I now am starting to not mask and letting people see the true me. Some examples almost brought a tear to my eye as well. 

    Have to say I detest popular culture, the way woman look with their lips done and huge black eyebrows. I know it’s personal preference but it just looks ridiculous to me, thankfully I’m gay so I don’t have to worry but if I were young and straight in this day and age of vanity, I would probably turn to homosexuality. 

    I also dislike materialistic attitudes and those people who go on about winning the lottery just grinds my gears. I said to someone once that if they won, would they help people, they said yes, I asked again would you(?). They came out and said I’d help my family. Sure I’d do the same in a similar predicament but I’d be setting up housing for homeless, as much mental health stations as possible and anyone who really needed the help I would help. I’ve helped someone in the past because they had kids and dogs, they also had emotional problems too and didn’t have a job, their kids were starving so with what little money I had I sent it to them. Whether or not it was a lie I didn’t care. Someone asked for help and I gave it. I would do the same for anyone if I could. 

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