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Phoenix
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 Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:21 pm Post subject: How Many Of You Look Unusual? |
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I notice comments about people "looking weird" enough for others to notice. This sort of thing happens to me.
Is it a trait of Asperger's Syndrome to look a bit unusual? I know I certainly do, enough for people to notice and comment about. |
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-JR
Phoenix
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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People actually think I'm quite good looking. I happen to agree! 
Tho, I've sported many looks. Some nicknames people gave me:
Pothead. Nobody ever believed me when I told them I NEVER smoked a joint in my life. I looked like one-and my eyes were nearly always red in class from keeping my head down.
Hobo.
Caveman. --Both of those were in my scraggly looking days
The Professor.
Harry Potter. --I HATED being compared to HP, but the professor analogy made me feel pretty good. People thought I was both smart and retarded!
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9CatMom
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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| I think I look very ordinary. I am not particularly odder looking or more beautiful than average. |
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zen_mistress
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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i have staring, intense eyes and thick eyebrows. But I dont look overly unusual.
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CMaximus
Snowy Owl
Joined: Nov 04, 2007
Age: 25
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Location: live and work on hew-mon homeworld
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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| I kind of resemble Hugo Weaving... that's a bit unusual. |
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NeantHumain
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Probably pretty average. I rather not dress in/look a way that brings unwanted attention my way; it lets me keep my options open and only have people notice me when I'd prefer it. |
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Kauf039
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Joined: May 17, 2008
Age: 23
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Location: ON, Canada
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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My actual physical features are not that "unusual", however the way that I walk/dress/speak/do hair/lack of makeup will make me stand out a bit. Also I have the tendacy to have a blank "out there" look to me some times... most do not comment on it though. I got some comments in school about how I walk, but they were either in the not mean way/the person they were speaking to stood up for me. All in all, I guess people automaticly find something "weird" about me, however they usually don't find it bad or sometimes like it more than the usual.
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Mon
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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When I was in high school I overheard some girls talking about my appearance and they said that I my facial features made me look more mature. I tried asking them what they meant but they shut up pretty quickly once they knew I was listening.
I know that when I have a photo taken I don't smile. Its not intentional, I just don't quite know how to fake a smile, it feels strange. Sometimes I think I am smiling in a photo and then when I see it I wasn't. I've often wondered if this is what happens when I smile at someone and they don't smile back, maybe I wasn't smiling at all!  |
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anbuend
Oak-Type Autie
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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As far as autism goes, I think any unusualness to how I look is unusual behavior.
I've got a few physical things that make me odd-looking (at least, enough to have heard comments my entire life on them, often upon the first time people talked to me they'd ask me about them) too, but that's different.
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release_the_bats
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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| I get stared at a lot. If someone gives me a nasty stare, I try to imitate the look and direct it back at them. It's almost like a sort of non-verbal echolalia used for defensive purposes. I've gotten so sick of being stared at, I have to do something in response to the hostile stares. |
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-JR
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Kauf039 wrote: | | lack of makeup |
One of the most attractive features of several women I've admired from afar.
I figured out how to "cope" with people in high school. Instead of figuring out the routine to be "normal," I sunk in and wore plain things like many of the posters here. Jeans and Dickies, black Aries boots, with a band shirt. Later, I rotated plain black shirts in.
Most unusual feature of myself was my love of flannel in the summer time. This and my dickies jacket.
Question-
Does anybody else hate labels? Like a shirt that says "billibong" on the front? I can wear a Metallica shirt no problemo, but the labels sort of annoyed me. Same with shoes, that is why I wore black boots. One of the reasons I didn't like labels wasn't my actual dislike for the label itself-but the expectations that come from it. People that wear skater shoes skate-I do NOT skate, and would be uncomfortable with the idea of people thinking I skate. Just an example there.
Gosh dang! I realized just now that I've mentioned TWO "labels" I enjoy in the same post I said I hated labels in! Am I a hypocrite or what? I think my theory of labels bringing on an expectation is true considering that little inconsistancy. I mean, Dickies stuff brings NO expectation of any sort of way to act or carry one's self, and same with the boots, nobody even knew what "Aries" boots were, as the label was simply stamped on the sides with nothing in the way of color or attention grabbing flair.
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poopylungstuffing
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:18 am Post subject: |
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I look sorta young for my age, and dress just the same way I did when I was in high school more or less.
Often I wear t-shirts that I designed myself (I screenprint)....and one might notice that the necks are cut out of all my shirts (they choke me).
I ususally wear a full skirt with shorts underneath and a head scarf and my hair in pigtails...there are semi-sensory-mixed-with asthetic reasons for all of this.
I look sorta Bohemian by my standards....but theres reasons....I wear alot of obscure band shirts because I ran a venue and was always trading shirts with bands that played at my place.
I look sorta odd in the face in group photos too i guess...aside from the way I dress.
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zen_mistress
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I do have an odd physical feature: ears that point at the top, like an elf, or Mr Spock. They arent so pronounced now as they were when I was a kid. Does anyone else have ears like this?
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-JR
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^Not me, but I wish I did!
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zen_mistress
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:32 am Post subject: |
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Lol, they always made me feel a bit weird. Luckily I dont have big ears, so they arent so noticeable.
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