You Might be an Aspie if...

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You might be an Aspie if you are so used to seeing TV in 4-3 format that you just can't stand "letterbox" format and because you can't see the point of having letterbox format anyway.

You also might be an Aspie if you get upset about your best friend maybe going home and not saying goodbye because maybe they'll have an accident and you'll never see them again. This is thanks to problems in time perception, predicting consequences, and having usual routines interrupted in some way and perhaps short term memory impairments too.

Funny... I'm the opposite. I'm a film buff and I want to see the full frame. Directors often use the full width of a widescreen image, spreading the characters out along the frame. When you cut it down, you lose that composition and the shot feels more claustrophobic, because the shot becomes much tighter on the subject. I want to watch what the director filmed, not someone else's modified version of it. To me, the little details are what have the biggest effect on me.

You might be an Aspie if you asbolutely have to meticulously detail your justifications for an opinion.

One good example is the movie The Incredibles (You might be an aspie if you've watched this movie 30 + times and counting...)

In one scene the a character is threatened by a weapon. Full screen you only see the weapon and you hear the character gasp. Widescreen you see the character. In another scene a character is knocked out by a rock thrown by the protagonist. In full screen you see the character throw the rock and the thump of something hitting the ground. In widescreen you see the rock hitting the fellow and him toppling to the ground.

You might be an aspie if you watched any movie this closely and remembered this level of detail...

You might be an aspie if, having completed FreeCell #169, you are now determined to complete it using your usual pattern of completing Freecell games with in this order: clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades, (alternately spades, hearts, diamonds clubs) which, incidentally, is the way you complete Vegas style solitaire...

You might be an Aspie if you spent two-and-a-half hours trying to open a vitamin bottle before finally prying the child safety lock off so you don't miss your daily before-breakfast vitamin.

...you split up with your boyfriend but you miss his computer more than him.

... bus ride homes in scratchy winter clothing are intolerable.

...if you treat your few friends merely as subjects of psycological analysis.

...if you have a notebook in witch you have noted >100 primes.

brilliant!

i once created a database of everyone i had ever known, listing the things that i liked about them and things i didn't like about them! the weird thing is, it really helped me organise my feelings about people and made me feel more comfortable around those who still featured in my life. by the way, this is the first time i have ever told anyone about this.

*everyone slowly backs away from hecate*

Sounds like something I would do, if I had the patience

you don't know how much of a relief it is to hear that!

woo hoo!
you might be an aspie is back!

you might be an aspie if, even though you read through this entire thread before, you read through this whole thread again.

...If you have as much trouble shopping for clothes as most people have shopping for computer parts.

...If you go to Circuit City or Best buy and you have to supress the urge to laugh in the salesman's face when he asks if he can help you.

I do that in my memory all the time without any special effort. Only instead of information about what I like and don't like about them, I memorize everything I can find out about their background.

If you brought home bacon when someone told you have to bring home the bacon.

Last edited by ilikedragons on 10 Dec 2005, 12:43 am, edited 1 time in total.