Are adolescents and adults with the diagnosis bigger?

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Below average height and weight, here (not by much in the height dept. at 5'2, but about 25 lbs under "normal" for height, and I eat whatever I like whenever I like..)

6' @ 134.2Lbs. I lost a few pounds this week, no appetite/forgot to eat a few times.

5 '7' and weigh between 120-125 lbs. I think I am average built. I don't eat very much.

6'1" and about 220 pounds.

I've always been taller than average, but also skinnier than average. I'm 5'9" and 135 lbs. In my early twenties, before having kids, I was 116 lbs! I've seen aspies in all shapes and sizes. How tall are you, Ryginar, if you don't mind me asking?

I haven't been measured in quite a while, but I weigh about 140. I'm turning 18 soon.

6'4" and 190. I used to be pretty heavy, 270 at my biggest. But was ill for quite a while and dropped a lot of weight. Only in the last couple years have I gotten it back up to what I think is a healthy level.

I'm tall because my parents are and that's pretty much the way God made me.

15% BF? That's not that bad, dude. Only worry about it if you're over like...22%. And for football, you gotta be big, so I don't know why you'd wanna reduce it. Hell you probably wanna gain 50-60lbs to make varsity.

This.

I know others say there's no correlation, but from my own experience of meeting kids on the spectrum, they are very big. My daughter is on the 98th percentile. She's the tallest girl in her class, but one of the youngest. She's only 6 but looks about 8 or 9. I know only 4 other kids with ASDs and all of them are the tallest in their respective classes, by far. But, they are kids and who knows what size they'll be when they've finished growing. They might end up being small. My BIL is undiagnosed, but without a doubt has AS. My MIL says he was a very big kid and was often mistaken for older, but he's average height now.

It can go either way, there are conditions associated with autism that cause people to be taller AND shorter than average. - I'm 4 ft 8in
http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/jun2007/nichd-22.htm
http://www.bu.edu/autism/files/2010/03/ ... et-al1.pdf

Im average.

The one other person who I was ever aqainted with who I knew was a fellow aspie (prior to meeting a raft of people when I started going to the local metro area support group) was a coworker guy whom I long suspected was an aspie. Then (after he got fired from the job) learned through the grapevine that he was indeed an aspie.

He was a short skinny bespectacled guy. If he stood next to Woody Allen he wouldve made Woody Allen look like Sylverster Stallone.

Hardly "bigger than average".

The folks in the support group ( maybe 20 of us meet at a resturaunt each month) are all rather average in size with a few on either extreme end of the scale. The same bell curve as nt's.

What isn't more scattered on spectrum than off sprectrum?

I'm pretty short.

Come again? Do you mean is the discrepancy in height greater amongst those on the spectrum as opposed to the general population? I imagine it is but don't know for sure. The gist of my post was to half agree with the OP that those on the spectrum are often bigger than the general population, but the opposite is also true that they are also often smaller than the general population. Those extremes probably get lost when the all the heights and sizes are averaged together.
Edit: Or was that just a rhetorical question? In which case I don't know.