Not sure if I'm autistic??

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I just realized that I was never diagnosed before, I'm not sure if I have autism or asperger the only reason made me think I was is probably because my school principel thought I had autism when I was a child, a friend told me once that I look autistic and now to make sure of it I do have some traits of autism and asperger and took some online tests some of the results indicate that I am but some don't, I asked my mother to get diagnosed she just replied to me that I don't have autism. I don't know what to do how to be sure/accurate if I really don't have it??? I know it's better to get diagnosed but I can't my parents don't think that I am so can they be true??

Check out these two videos and see if you have the symptoms that matches either one.

Autism Spectrum Disorder:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Pp8jcQ97pY[/youtube]

Aspergers:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSzM3MHfOA[/youtube]

The answer to your question is not whether or not you have these traits, it's whether or no these traits impair you in day-to-day life.

I was fairly sure I was Aspie when my daughter was diagnosed but WP has helped me understand that I was only trying to fit traits in myself into the autism diagnosis i.e. seeking connections due to my confirmation bias.

I'm now fairly confident I'm nuerotypical with a few nerdy/autism like traits. That said I'm probably the one carrying the autism genetic link as my father and brother have autism traits whereas my wife's side are super-duper NT.

Hi, you're more than welcome to hang out here and participate, whether you're Spectrum or Spectrum-friendly or simply share some traits but not others.. And I'll give you a couple of examples of how the concept of the Aspergers-Autism Spectrum has helped me.

In a speech, Temple Grandin said people on the Spectrum tend to have one of three preferred intellectual styles, with some overlap of course:
1) abstract thinking,
2) story / narrative thinking, or
3) visual thinking.
I've decided I'm very much a story / narrative thinker. And this explained why if I really put the time into a math class, I would do well, but only if I put the time in. I have to translate into words, for example, 'the graph explodes upward at this point,' so that I can understand it in my own way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgEAhMEgGOQ (see about 20 minutes into it)
And I think this theory and approach can help just people in general. It's a good addition to the theory that people tend to have a preferred style of being auditory, visual, or tactile learners.

Socially, I've decided on engagement, not conformity. And a conscious decision to turn down my internal censor so that the default setting is that it's probably okay to go ahead and say it anyway, unless it really jumps out at me as inappropriate. Combined with, if a person needs space, go ahead and give them space, without the intermediate step of asking whether they 'should' need space. And the idea of letting a medium mistake just remain a medium mistake.