I have been wondering for a long time if a guy who attend to my school is autist.
He certainly have a mental disorder because he is the most diferente person I ever knew.

What got me more suspicious about austism was when I realize he had serously motricity problems executing movements, specialy hand movements, when they required fine motricity (like tying a lace) or he had to copy someone else movement. There was a time when all he had to do was to click a boton on a laser pen and people where giving him verbal instrution how he should do that and he couldn't. And they were very simple.

He has lots of social issues, he doesn't have friends and he doesn't mind about that, he is also very stuburn, like no one else I ever know.

He doesn't speak very much, most of the time (like 99% of the time) he is quite, and he has na facial expression like he is mind absent, also most of the time.

I had try to speak to him in circunstances I needed and many times he didn't answer back, like he hadn't even heard me.

I'm not aware if he has a special interest. He is a med student as I am, and as you can imagine his interation with the patients is awfull. He only speaks when his ask a specific think to the patients. There was a time when the teacher told him he had to entreview alone the patient. We had already done it many times, and the question are generaly always the same. But he couldn't do it. The teacher had to tell him "now ask the patients name", he would do just that, for him to go further he had to told "don't you have to know the patients age" and then he would ask the age. And the rest of the interview was like this.
When we do these interviews in groups, even in groups of two he never says a word.

He only spoke to 2 ou 3 classmates of mine, we wouldn't speak to literaly anyone else. He never spoke about himself, his life, his opinions and so one.

From what these friends of mine could know about him, by asking him and guessing till hardly getting na answer (otherwise he wouldn't say anything) he spent most time of the day playing guitar, and he only knew few songs, so the same songs over and over, until he would forget to eat sleep or study.

Before this it was the same thing but with an internet game. And after he conviced is parents to brought the guitar to is apartment near the school, he failed almost all the exams, he missed many classes, and when he was in the classes all he wanted was to go home and play guitar. Of course he failed the year.

So,what do you think? I once shared my suspicious with the classmates of mine that talk to him and they laugh at me, they told it was impossible, that I didn't know what austism his, and that he couldn't be autist because he talked to people and they could say it was perceptive he liked those moments... But they clearly don't know what austism is.