I'm 18, Even now girls mistake me for anywhere from 14-16. It was great for getting into movies, even at 16 I could say I was ten years old and get in cheap.
Drawbacks? oh yeah! Bullied constantly in school for not only being smaller. But because the other kids couldn't understand my way of thinking. I also could not understand the seemingly illogical concept of why the other kids were mean to me for no apparent reason. I was also a very emotional child. After a while I stopped trying to make friends, I spent most of my life playing legos, reading and playing on the computer.
Even now the social scene is daunting. How to describe my social skills? I invented the faux pas
I've strange ears too, though mine are pointy rather than square, apparently I look like an elf or something.
Funny you should mention ears. I used to get picked on for having 'weird ears'. All it is, is the the small bit just in front of the hole covers it almost completely.
My ears are normal...
I have EDS and AS...I look much younger than my age...I'm of short stature...and am VERY pale (my geneticist thought I had Albinism) I also have abnormal eye movement due to nystagmus and strabismus. I don't smile much unless i have something to smile about
Oh and EVERYTHING is tiny...I wear kids' clothes and shoes...and wear baby bracelets...even my teeth are itty bitty.
I'm also pale, but it seems to run in the family. (Which doesn't stand for anything, considering the fact that autism is also rather common.)
I have never had comments about my ears, they appear normal to me. My head is a bit large, I think, and also a bit chubby, lol.
I do think my mouth corners are somewhat low and my face looks emotionless. The latter I have been told. I seem to have a quite sad or emotionless face when I'm concentrating or in deep thoughts and it often confuses others, who ask 'What's wrong?' when nothing is wrong.
And I seem to notice 'Autistic faces' in for example people from my school (Our school has special programmes for autistic children, so there are quite a few of them, but not much people know who exactly they are), I have had some conversations with people I barely knew who told me they were autistic after I had suspected this for some time.
Looks have nothing to do with it. However I was easily noticed by rather erratic eye contact and poor body language prior to speaking. I have learnt to control both since school. I am around 180 cm and 95 kg and rather strong so I could easily be missed which was my intention when leaving school. Much intense self-work for this to happen.
The school bullies carefully stayed out of range and left me on my lonesome. But that didn't stop the mental torture or names or silent "tricks" and stealing or last to be picked. Only one fight in grade 8 which I won in two seconds. Which is why they kept their distance.
My pet hate is bullying especially the psychological kind.
This is all hugely funny. How many people across the world just got up to check thier ears out in the mirror? lol
Lol, I would have, but since I'm on campus, I can't...no mirror handy!
By feel, though, my ears do flop in a little. And my corners of my mouth are definitely lower than the middle. I also keep my mouth open a little naturally, but I don't know that it's because I breathe through it, I just am more comfortable keeping it open. It takes effort to close it all the way.
I also have one eyelid that droops lower than the other. I remember the first time I went to the opthamologist in 3rd grade, he said that it can be a sign of neurological problems and to keep it in mind. Apparently he knew what he was talking about.
Another feature I read about not too long ago is that in autistic people, the ring finger tends to be longer than the index finger. It also said that this is common in men, and therefore they think it's because of increased testosterone in the womb, regardless of the child's sex. I need to find that study again and post it here. My ring fingers are nearly as long as my middle fingers, while my index fingers are much shorter than the middle or ring fingers. There's less than a centimeter difference between my ring finger and middle finger.
I also have quite elven ears.
This is all hugely funny. How many people across the world just got up to check thier ears out in the mirror? lol
Damn, I hate being dyslexic.
I was thinking "Elven ears?? If I had elven ears, I would have nine of them surgically removed."
Lol, you're not alone in thinking that 
My (NT) sister is double-jointed, and she bruises easily and stuff. I only meet criteria for one of the Beighton score things, which is putting my palms on the floor without bending knees.
I remember in ninth grade the physical fitness testing that I had the farthest reach of anyone in my grade, and it was delightfully easy for me to do it, whereas many of my peers struggled just to get past their knees.
I was really shocked; I thought everyone could do that, as I'm not a particularly physically fit person, and I hadn't really been in P.E. much at all in my life up to that point.
Me too - I thought it was normal to be able to do that without bending your knees. When I took gym in high school, I was kind of surprised to see these athletic people struggling to get to their ankles, and short fat me had no problems at all getting to the floor. I've always been pretty flexible, all things considered. I don't know that I'd meet the criterion for HMS though. My elbows and knees don't do that backwards thing, and my thumbs don't easily touch my arms anymore. But my fingers like to collapse backwards when I play my cello, I was always being reprimanded for having collapsed fingers in school and in lessons, but I never figured out how to truly fix it. I think I'm more flexible than expected, given my body condition, but not -that- flexible. I never could do the splits.
Every autistic person I know wears glasses. (Well, I only know 3 autistic people, including myself, and only one has a diagnosis.)
Every autistic person I know wears glasses. (Well, I only know 3 autistic people, including myself, and only one has a diagnosis.)
Bit of weird glitch here it posted before I had a chance to write something. My son doesn't wear glasses. So there is someone on the autistic spectrum (diagnosed) who doesn't. I do however from the age of 12.
Anyway, a quick scan of the crowd when working will show a lot of people wearing glasses. A spectrum disorder doesn't have anything to do with it. However watching too much TV or reading or other pursuits probably does apart from genetic trait.
Every time I see this thread, I think "My Uncle Bob." As in, "What does Autism look like, well it looks like my Uncle Bob." It is terribly annoying. I wish I could get it out of my head.
I also need glasses, though that's not to do with being autistic. If I didn't have glasses, I would need to have books on tape or braille or something to read, and the only way I can tell that someone is a person rather than an object when not wearing glasses is if they move or make noise. My vision used to be better when I was a kid, though I was still near-sighted but I got glasses by age 5 or 6.
In elementary school we got our vision checked every year. In 2nd grade I remember testing at 20/20, and then in 3rd grade it was 20/200 (this has since deteriorated, and I have developed a mild astigmatism). I have no idea why it deteriorated so fast, there's supposed to be nothing wrong with my eyes other than plain nearsightedness. My mom insists it's because I sat too close to the TV when I watched "Wild Discovery" every night, when I actually sat closer to the TV because I couldn't see it unless I was close to it. I still could play Snake on the computer even with the horrible vision - I guess I was just used to it, I didn't know I was supposed to be able to see things from farther back. Then my mom decided it was because I read too much with too little light, but I think that's bull, too. When I take my glasses off I can't even make out faces from across the dinner table, let alone people across the room. I noticed today I can't even make out my own foot without my glasses 
I have -255/-250. I cant even see my hands without glasses.
and I always, always break them.
I have at least 20/230 vision. I've had glasses since I was about 9-10, and they get steadily thicker as my eyes get steadily worse. I've never broken them, but they've been scratched and bent a lot (I took a badminton racket to the face one time...)
I get a new pair every year though, and it's actually time for me to go back to the eye doctor.
I have fairly serious myopia. Everything turns into big blurry colour blobs without glasses. Not sure of the exact prescription. My dad's eyes are much worse; he can't get glasses strong enough anymore. Hopefully I never get that bad.
I found the box for the contacts I got last year (that didn't last long, they're very annoying, and I lost them after about a week every time I got a new pair...but I just don't learn, I'm getting contacts again in a couple weeks, though it will be a different kind) and the prescription was -5.75 for the left eye and -5.50 for the right eye.