Do you think you might be autistic?
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2025 12:21 am
Ask yourself if you have any of these traits.
Most people do, what will happen with people on the spectrum, they'll have the vast majority of them. So neuro-typicals don't panic if you have more than a few of them, most people have some. We just have a LOT more.
64 common traits of autism.
1. Poor eye contact
2. Trouble reading facial expressions
3. sensory sensitivities, touch, taste, smell, see, hear
4. Social anxiety
5. literal thinking (raining cats and dogs)
6. Abstract thinking. Money and time etc.
7. Difficulty with transitions/ change in routine
8. difficulty with change/ sudden unexpected change
9. need a routine to feel comfortable
10. Struggle with social cues
11. small talk is hard
12. understanding sarcasm
13. humour can be hard
14. trouble understanding other peoples feelings
15. emotional regulation, are you upset easily
16. impulse control
17. strong interest in specific topics, computers, trains, music (DJ'ing)
18. Executive function, managing time/tasks
19. prioritising tasks
20. challenges making decisions
21. problem solving is hard
22. hard to multitask
23. taking turns, when is it my turn, is it now
24. sharing things
25. joint attention, focusing on the same thing as someone else
26. role playing with others
27. challenges with social activities
28. Difficulties Play or work well with others
29. Work rest or play alone, are you a loner
30. Self regulate emotions
31. Self awareness
32. self monitoring
33. low self esteem
34. Self advocacy, can you speak for yourself
35. Hard starting conversations
36. hard maintaining conversations
37. when to end a conversation
38. body language is hard to read or use body language
39. monotone voice
40. inflection in your voice
41. volume control, do you speak loudly/softly especially when excited
42. intonation, pitch and speed of speech
43. I think I missed one or got confused with the two above
44. Prosody or rhythm, volume control, melody all combined
45. articulation, can you get your message across
46. vocabulary limited, retrieval or highly expanded vocabulary
47. grammar is hard
48. syntax is hard, can you arrange a sentence
49. semantics, proper language interpretation
50. echolalia, repeating words
51. facial recognition is poor
52. central coherence. Do you see the big picture
53. intense interests
54. sensory seeking behaviour
55. hypo-sensitivity do you seek sensations or find temperature and pain lacking
56. poor coordination
57. fine motor skills are HARD
58. gross motor skills are hard, so big things like running or jumping is hard
59. balance is hard
60. spacial awareness
61. deeper spacial awareness, accident prone
62. visual processing of visual info
63. auditory processing, lectures or verbal instructions are hard
64. Tactile processing is hard.
Signs of adult autism
15 things Auties do that aren't well known.
YES to all of them, all but the first.
1. We like secret thumb holes in clothing (or we create our own).
2. We don’t like being asked to identify our “favorite” anything… except maybe color.
3. We speak in paragraphs rather than sentences.
4. We are sceptical of marketing strategies.
5. We have trouble navigating group conversations.
6. We have very specific lighting preferences. (dim - photophobia)
7. We hate getting our hands sticky or messy or wet.
8. We struggle with the specificity of language and interpret things literally.
9. We ask a ton of questions.
10. We experience the “stand there awkwardly phenomenon.”
11. We are overwhelmed with the pain scale question.
12. We have trouble understanding expectations.
13. We tend to work with uneven productivity.
14. We have covert stims.
15. We are keenly aware of being “perceived” and it often makes us uncomfortable.
Finally another 10 signs of autism
10 signs of undiagnosed adult autism
1. Social interaction difficulties. In person. Parties are hard, more people is more difficult.
2. Unspoken language. Body language or inferred speech.
3. Need for routines and structure. Disruptions causes real problems.
4. Sensitive to sights/sounds/touch/smells. Sounds that upset me, sounds of a canteen and crashing cutlery. Loud high pitch sounds.
5. Uneven skill sets. Superb at working with computers, but all other areas such as going for a walk leads to where, when, how far, do I need to bring food, water, chocolate. Other parts of life needs a detailed breakdown.
6. Emotional regulation. Or mostly dis-regulation.
7. Intractable sense of right and wrong. Very strong ethics.
8. Unusual connections. Making creative leaps and seeing patterns that others can't. This can be really helpful at work making better work environments and easier work.
9. You're weird, a freak, creepy etc. It could also be quirky, unusual etc. I doubt many of us hear positive things. This really leads to severe alienation or internalisation of negative thoughts.
10. Hyperfocus! The things we love. For me, computers. For others it's trains, horses, sewing, batteries, movies, engineering and pretty much everything. But usually one or two topics.
Bonus, PDA pathological demand avoidance. Google it.
Most people do, what will happen with people on the spectrum, they'll have the vast majority of them. So neuro-typicals don't panic if you have more than a few of them, most people have some. We just have a LOT more.
64 common traits of autism.
1. Poor eye contact
2. Trouble reading facial expressions
3. sensory sensitivities, touch, taste, smell, see, hear
4. Social anxiety
5. literal thinking (raining cats and dogs)
6. Abstract thinking. Money and time etc.
7. Difficulty with transitions/ change in routine
8. difficulty with change/ sudden unexpected change
9. need a routine to feel comfortable
10. Struggle with social cues
11. small talk is hard
12. understanding sarcasm
13. humour can be hard
14. trouble understanding other peoples feelings
15. emotional regulation, are you upset easily
16. impulse control
17. strong interest in specific topics, computers, trains, music (DJ'ing)
18. Executive function, managing time/tasks
19. prioritising tasks
20. challenges making decisions
21. problem solving is hard
22. hard to multitask
23. taking turns, when is it my turn, is it now
24. sharing things
25. joint attention, focusing on the same thing as someone else
26. role playing with others
27. challenges with social activities
28. Difficulties Play or work well with others
29. Work rest or play alone, are you a loner
30. Self regulate emotions
31. Self awareness
32. self monitoring
33. low self esteem
34. Self advocacy, can you speak for yourself
35. Hard starting conversations
36. hard maintaining conversations
37. when to end a conversation
38. body language is hard to read or use body language
39. monotone voice
40. inflection in your voice
41. volume control, do you speak loudly/softly especially when excited
42. intonation, pitch and speed of speech
43. I think I missed one or got confused with the two above
44. Prosody or rhythm, volume control, melody all combined
45. articulation, can you get your message across
46. vocabulary limited, retrieval or highly expanded vocabulary
47. grammar is hard
48. syntax is hard, can you arrange a sentence
49. semantics, proper language interpretation
50. echolalia, repeating words
51. facial recognition is poor
52. central coherence. Do you see the big picture
53. intense interests
54. sensory seeking behaviour
55. hypo-sensitivity do you seek sensations or find temperature and pain lacking
56. poor coordination
57. fine motor skills are HARD
58. gross motor skills are hard, so big things like running or jumping is hard
59. balance is hard
60. spacial awareness
61. deeper spacial awareness, accident prone
62. visual processing of visual info
63. auditory processing, lectures or verbal instructions are hard
64. Tactile processing is hard.
Signs of adult autism
15 things Auties do that aren't well known.
YES to all of them, all but the first.
1. We like secret thumb holes in clothing (or we create our own).
2. We don’t like being asked to identify our “favorite” anything… except maybe color.
3. We speak in paragraphs rather than sentences.
4. We are sceptical of marketing strategies.
5. We have trouble navigating group conversations.
6. We have very specific lighting preferences. (dim - photophobia)
7. We hate getting our hands sticky or messy or wet.
8. We struggle with the specificity of language and interpret things literally.
9. We ask a ton of questions.
10. We experience the “stand there awkwardly phenomenon.”
11. We are overwhelmed with the pain scale question.
12. We have trouble understanding expectations.
13. We tend to work with uneven productivity.
14. We have covert stims.
15. We are keenly aware of being “perceived” and it often makes us uncomfortable.
Finally another 10 signs of autism
10 signs of undiagnosed adult autism
1. Social interaction difficulties. In person. Parties are hard, more people is more difficult.
2. Unspoken language. Body language or inferred speech.
3. Need for routines and structure. Disruptions causes real problems.
4. Sensitive to sights/sounds/touch/smells. Sounds that upset me, sounds of a canteen and crashing cutlery. Loud high pitch sounds.
5. Uneven skill sets. Superb at working with computers, but all other areas such as going for a walk leads to where, when, how far, do I need to bring food, water, chocolate. Other parts of life needs a detailed breakdown.
6. Emotional regulation. Or mostly dis-regulation.
7. Intractable sense of right and wrong. Very strong ethics.
8. Unusual connections. Making creative leaps and seeing patterns that others can't. This can be really helpful at work making better work environments and easier work.
9. You're weird, a freak, creepy etc. It could also be quirky, unusual etc. I doubt many of us hear positive things. This really leads to severe alienation or internalisation of negative thoughts.
10. Hyperfocus! The things we love. For me, computers. For others it's trains, horses, sewing, batteries, movies, engineering and pretty much everything. But usually one or two topics.
Bonus, PDA pathological demand avoidance. Google it.