Do you have the Power?

[Smudge]

Is there any foundation to the idea that an Aspie can recognise another Aspie without being given any information?

 

[Sipe]

In time it is possible. Depending on how much the person acts like an aspie. I, for example, act almost like a "normal" person in public so I would`t be recognized so easily or at all.

 

[andrew720]

sometimes I can recognise another person's autistic traits but I dont think I could recognise where another may be on the spectrum.

 

[superboyian]

I normally can recognise another aspie or autist while the others can't normally detect it.
I must have some sort of aspie power to recognise it.

 

[Emor]

Sometimes I think I see one.
I was at the bus stop last week and a guy came over and he stood quite far away from me and wouldn't look me in the eye and walked in circles until the bus came.
He just seemed exactly how I would act in the situation.
But I think that's more me being able to tell when someone's like me than when someone's AS.
It actually pisses me off when AS people think they're all of a sudden an authority on AS when there's many disorders which can cause AS-like traits.
Gamers told me he can diagnose people by looking at their face . With loads of disorders. Awesome guy (Y).
EMZ=]

 

[Calvert]

Gamers told me he can diagnose people by looking at their face . With loads of disorders. Awesome guy (Y).
EMZ=]

Now, that is just amazing! 
I don't know if I could tell someone was an Aspie. It would depend how the person was acting and if I was specifically looking for Aspie traits but I haven't tried.

 

[Sipe]

Gamers told me he can diagnose people by looking at their face .

Ok, How is that possible? Or does he notice it by watching his/her face expressions or something? I don`t think you can recognize anyone as an aspie only after just by looking at his/her face. It would be the same thing than saying; "I can recognize gay people just by looking at their face."

 

[Emor]

Well he predicted several people's diagnoses correctly apparently. Not just AS.
Ask Gamers or something xD.
BTW, I love the title. Me and my friend kept being threatened to get kicked out of the library by the librarians for the lulz and we were like, 'you've not got the power to do that', and they were like, 'yeah, we've got the power' so we always said when we entered the library in a high-pitched MJ like tone, 'You got tha powa!' XD. I found out it funny anyway xD.
EMZ=]

 

[Calvert]

BTW, I love the title. Me and my friend kept being threatened to get kicked out of the library by the librarians for the lulz and we were like, 'you've not got the power to do that', and they were like, 'yeah, we've got the power' so we always said when we entered the library in a high-pitched MJ like tone, 'You got tha powa!' XD. I found out it funny anyway xD.
EMZ=]

That's what I thought when I read the title too.

 

[Emor]

Glad I'm not on my own on that xD.
EMZ=]

 

[Ana54]

Yes, I do have the "power". I recognized one in my English class in 11th grade (he wasn't coded and probably wasn't diagnosed or even heard of AS.) I recognized another one in a short-stay psychiatric facility. I recognized others on message boards online without meeting them. I recognized one at the mental health building of the Montreal Children's Hospital. I recognized more too, I think. I also recognized traits in my cousin.

 

[Ruby_Aspergic]

I would hope that as people that have the condition we would be more knowledgeable than the general public of the signs. I don't believe that any of us have any special powers.

 

[Ana54]

True. Every bipolar person I meet tells me I'm bipolar.

 

[142857]

Even before I knew what Aspergers was, I could recognize people who were "like me". And understand them a lot better than anyone else. There is nothing paranormal about that.

I remember when I got together with my last girlfriend she was going through a bunch of drama. She was so down, really depressed. Then I got a phone call and suddenly she was just about the happiest I have ever heard someone be. I had never met someone who was bipolar (that I know of) and knew virtually nothing about the condition, but I knew right away that she was bipolar. The weird thing is that she had had plenty of boyfriends before and none of them had ever known about her condition. Which I find incredible.

 

[Ruby_Aspergic]

Was she actually diagnosed with bipolar? Because the disorder is a whole hell of a lot more complex than that, and that is a common misconception.

 

[142857]

Was she actually diagnosed with bipolar? Because the disorder is a whole hell of a lot more complex than that, and that is a common misconception.

Yes. She was diagnosed at 16. I know that the disorder can be quite complex, but hers seemed straightforward enough. While we were together she was down a lot more than up, but at other stages in her life it had been the reverse. Her depressions were frightening. When she was "happy" sometimes she would have no inhibitions at all, would do and say anything. Other times she would put butterfly clips in her hair, call me "Uncle", and talk in a little girl voice. She would also do a lot of "bouncing" up and down like a little kid.

I know that some of the members of this board are very intelligent, yourself and Evar and Krisi seeming to stand out from what I have seen. But this girl was the smartest person I have ever known. She did a 4 year degree at Georgetown Uni in 3 years while working full time in IT, and being near suicidally depressed for much of that time.

Her father was bipolar and on meds for it. He was a nice guy but... totally lacking any passion for anything in life. We went on a trip to the seaside for a few days with her parents one time... her father stayed in the hotel room the whole trip watching TV. Apparently that was pretty much his whole life. Which was one of the reasons why she wouldn't go on medication.

 

[Kempy]

I sat next to somebody on a computer at college. Somehow we managed to start a completely random conversation about the Canvey Monster (local myth). I was really comfortable talking to him which is quite unusual as I had never met him. My friend knew him and invited him to her birthday party. I kept picking out his traits and then later on I started asking him questions from the Aspergers Diagnostic Criteria. It was obvious he was an aspie so I showed him Aspergic.com. He had never heard of Aspergers but had been diagnosed with ADHD when he was very young. After reading several threads on Aspergic and watching a couple of Youtube videos, he was absolutely certain he had Aspergers. He had gone through school knowing that he was different and was quite relieved to find that there were other people like him.
We get on really well and I have spent the last three days at his house. He is obsessed with East Asian civilization and Anime. He is a brilliant artist and we have started working on animating some of the Manga comics he has produced.

 

[Calvert]

Sounds very positive Kempy!

 

[Willow]

I can tell I think. Usually just by looking at them, or by hearing about them. Most of the time I'm right.

 

[mikkyh]

Meh. I looked at someone once. She had red hair. I thought, straight away, SELF HARMER. And yep. Looked at her arms, and she had loads of scars.