How can I be sure if I'm autistic? I'm not socially 100% inept, I can interact fairly well when I put myself in the thick of it and people seem nice to me when I'm not full blown socially retarded (glory to God it's not always so), but I nevertheless wonder if there's some kind of disconnect for me. I don't even really know what autism is at the end of the day. There is a number of things about me that are equated with autism. I've taken tests online out of curiousity but they all rely on experience with things I don't really have, the tests are very contextual.