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
  • I counted 37 on this list - had to actually do a tally chart to mark down which ones related to me lol.

    It's a good way of working out what you do and don't like doing though. 

    I liked 28 - as I always talk to more animals then I do people - me and my cat have great conversations as she speaks back lol!

    Mweekie xx

  • I sometimes go for a couple of days without talking to anyone except my hamster... Is that weird? He doesn't make any sounds.

    When I visit my dad I always speak to my cat by trying to copy his miaow. I imagine I know what emotion cats are expressing by the type of miaow  Smile

  • Question (forgive me butting in)......do you have non-verbal exchanges of communication with your hamster?  Slow blinks, postural body language, please & thank yous?

  • Well it started like this:

    I'm living with my new G/F (about 20 years ago) and I find she's a bit full-on and at the end of some  evenings, I want to sit quiet and alone for a half hour or so and decompress. She has a hamster by the name of Frodo, who's a bit feisty and bitey TBF at least as far as I am concerned, (as I would be if I was in a cage 24/7) so I decide that quite time for me will be wild time for Frodo where she gets the run of the living room floor... The first few times pass without incident apart from I'm briefed that she will chew cables, and indeed I quickly learn that if she goes behind the T.V. I need to intervene... 

    Now you also need to know that I am sitting in the middle of a short sofa, and at the end on my left behind the sofa rolled up into a tight tube and tucked vertically into a corner behind the other end of the sofa is a foamy yoga mat doohicky...

    So we get into a bit of a routine, then one night she goes super quiet, and I'm just at the point of going to see if she's behind the T.V.. when there is a huge scrabbling noise on my left. I turn to look and there on the top back of the sofa is Frodo literally radiating a sense of accomplishment. No word of a lie, you could see how pleased with herself she was to be sitting up there by my head. I congratulated her on her achievement and sat still waiting to see what she would do next...

    After a short pause she ran up to me, moved from sofa to my left shoulder then abseilled down my chest, landed on my thigh, ran towards my knee, then abseiled off that knee to the floor, before making herself scarce. As I was considering what just happened there was an enormous scrabbling behind me and to the left...

    Sure enough, that was the first of many, many, repetitions of that "game", and it only seemed to work if I played my part, She would wait after the climb for me to swivel my head left and pretend surprise, then abseil down to the floor via the same route, and do it again. 

    I could easily make an alternative explanation for the activity other than it being a game, but if you were there that first night, and saw that look she had after that first climb, you'd know she was clearly having herself a little game with me, and enjoying herself.

  • Unfortunately it's a bit one sided, I've never seen him slow-blink. But we can do nose-rubbing, and he sometimes stares at me kind of intensely.

  • Animals rock - plain and simple - yet so complex and lovely......if you keep your wits about you.  My innuendo radar has started flashing red - so I'll end this now !

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