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Is it likely for someone to be similar to a person with autism but not have autism at all?

Judge said:
You mean as a sort of sub-conscious self-defense mechanism? Interesting...hmmmmm.

LOL, I just figure I have enough work just being myself all the time! :confused:
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Quite possibly. I often wonder if part of the reason people fake a previously established socially unnacceptable thingie is because it is becoming unacceptable to be normal. If that makes any sense. I certainly remember some odd conversations among my more colorful friends (literally, they had this obsession with neon) that loudly promoted not being "normal" because it was wrong to be normal. So I got to enjoy my own teen rebel kicks by not dressing in black or spikes around other teens. :D

Spiller said:
To me though, 'posers' are those people who conciously mimic a group to impress others.
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When mimicking condescendingly, I usually just call them a troll. If done in a more flattering manner, it strays into the fangirl/fanboy end of my categorizing. Quite honestly, I don't know if I find a troll or a fangirl more intimidating!
 
Spiller said:
AsheSkyler I find them baffling and amusing.. why do you find them intimidating?
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Fangirls are scaaaaary! I'd put the more dogmatic ones on par with a rabid hyena since they're not above assault, slander, and other things to protect their fascination. Some trolls I've met also get quite dedicated to their hatred and sink to the same level.
 
Ruby said:
As in not being as social & loud as the average person, having a different outlook on life, not liking or relating to typical teenagers, having different opinions, not caring about appearance/fashion, being more mature & mucking around less ect.

I wonder how it is possible for someone to be similar to me (a person with autism) but not have autism or for someone to be different (not really neurotypical) but not be autistic. If a person being different or not fitting in isn't because of autism, then doesn't it have to be something? I suspect that some quiet people are shy, many people with autism are shy & it could be more than shyness if they want to socialise but don't know what to say or don't relate to what people are talking about. Maybe there are so many more autistic people than is on the statistics.

I am not typical for a person with autism by the way.
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I am profoundly different from both autism and neurotypical. While I do have an official diagnosis of autism, it is by default because what I really am is not in any book, and I have to be classified somewhere. But my differences from autism seem to go right to the core. Just the result (social isolation) is similar.
(Metaphor alert!): Normal is a square, autism is a circle, I am a triangle. The possibilities are endless.
 
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