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How many of these 63 autistic traits apply to you?

Autonomistic
over 1 year ago
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyoGpebQGYE
  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.

  • over 1 year ago

    Maybe about forty.

    I just love that 'repetition' appears twice.

    I said... I just love that repetition appears twice.

    Ben

  • over 1 year ago in reply to battybats
    battybats said:
    I mostly just wear black

    Me too, battybats, it's just so easy!

    According to a friend, I have 27 shades of black in my wardrobe.

    Ben

  • over 1 year ago in reply to battybats

    Yeah I thought that one was odd tbh. That's why I don't put a lot of stock into these things, they run on stereotypes and the bright colour thing is often based on assumptions of a "child mind" in autistic people. AFTI is a good YouTube channel though so there's probably a "doesn't apply to all" disclaimer in the actual video linked.

  • over 1 year ago

    I got about 45, though people who observe me from the outside might add a few more that I haven't noticed!

    Number 1 made me laugh because I mostly just wear black. I like it, it's easier to put oufits together that won't bother me OR other people, and it makes people think you're scary so they leave you alone. Given the number of other autistic people I know who do the same, I think this one might actually be another "we're at the extremes" autistic thing rather than all of us liking colour.

  • over 1 year ago

    44. Some of them were difficult to decide on. I don’t really understand compartmentalising different parts of my life. I suppose my work life and home life are quite separate things, like I wouldn’t want to socialise with people I work with. Is that it?

    some are quite general and might be down to social anxiety/self esteem issues as well. And I have no idea whether I think in pictures, I just think. If there is a picture then it’s something like a Jackson Pollock (complete mess).

    interesting though. I love quizzes like this. 

  • over 1 year ago

    51. 

    Funny, looking at it written down they look and sound so small and yet they impact my life in such a big way a lot of them.

  • over 1 year ago

    51,  number 5, I’m okay with seams and labels, all clothes have to be cotton and 80% of my clothes are dark blue. Some aren’t traits, they are laws!

  • over 1 year ago

    I cringed when I read these because so many of them apply to me.  

    Even yesterday I got things very wrong, I was watching a TV program and later I read online reviews about it and I discovered that I totally misread the social relationships between the various characters.

  • over 1 year ago

    I need to post a score or I'll be overthinking this all day lol!  36ish, there are some where I think sometimes I'm like that and sometimes I'm not, I find if I'm tired everything is amplified.  I'd be interested to know how my other half scores me from two aspects, one if I think I'm a certain way but they think I'm not, but also to be able to have a conversation about the things that effect me that they don't realise.  Point 43 feels like my nemesis, I'm frequently told I need to let it go, at which point I have to try and explain that I can't as my brain isn't wired that way, occasionally that song from Frozen comes into my head, but I try and block that out!

  • over 1 year ago

    38, the last one definitely. Especially last Friday at work that was a very long week

  • over 1 year ago

    That was really interesting .

    Thank you for posting.

    Mine was 44.

    The ones that were correct for me tended to be VERY correct and these especially resonated with me:

    Autonomistic said:
    Having an atypical sense of humour
    Autonomistic said:
    Not having a strong sense of gender.
    Autonomistic said:
    Over-planning everything
    Autonomistic said:
    Having a high pain tolerance
    Autonomistic said:
    Being the kind of person who people think, how could someone so clever be so stupid?

    A couple of these I hadn't realised were the autism: sense of humour (mine is very dry); the clever/stupid thing.

    People are always laughing at things I say where I just don't 'get it'.

  • over 1 year ago

    48. And I’m glad no. 17 is a thing, people are just people. 

  • over 1 year ago

    46. But then, I'm a rubbish autist.