Is this autistic type behaviour?

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Just wondering why a teenager would walk around a school open evening balancing a book on their head for the entire time.
The mother thinks it’s a form of attention seeking, but I’m wondering if it’s something else e.g. sensory seeking?

I think there is a far more to autistic behaviour than just acting a little oddly. Ds is 15 and autistic and would go out of his way to hide his differences and sensory issues, so walking around with a book on his head would be something he would never do. But autistic children are all very different so what helps one child will not always help another. Without knowing more about the young person it would be very difficult to tell if they were presenting with autistic behaviours.

I've got a 12 year old suspected ASD (Ed Psych and school think he is) and he has done things like this in the past but there has to be a lot more to it than that for autism. I asked him and he said he thought walking round on open evening with a book on your head would be a great idea and 5 minutes as to why

He said it's a bored, understimulated child that would do this and not an autism sign. When I was at school girls did this trying to be models and get the perfect cat walk. Not really sure, if with lots of other autism signs it could be but on its own unlikely. With my DS it was cushions.