You may be Autistic if...

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You're reading this and responding to it.

You can remember the exceedingly long names of various medical conditions after you've read them once. Think...atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumour or primitive neuroectodermal tumour.

They stick in my head like catchy tunes.

... but you can't remember the name of the person you just met!

Fnord & Olivia,

Yes to both of these!

You hear the song "Last Christmas", and you think, "How can he give away his heart? He needs it to live!"

You hear your parents say "soup's on!" when supper is ready, and you say, "But we're not having any soup."

Your mother tells you she's so thirsty she could drink the entire ocean, and then you her that she shouldn't because, among many other things, the ocean is too salty.

You feel upset whenever you spot a spelling, grammar or punctuation error in a newspaper or magazine.

You can spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious correctly without needing auto-correct or a dictionary, but you need a calculator to work out a sum like 15x12. (Probably not AS-related really)

Or hear a grammar error by NPR announcers! Grrr! They should know better!

i still get a bit bent outta shape every time i hear somebody refer to a "weejee board" when it really is OUI [WEE] - JA [YAH], IOW they are a "yesyes" board [yes in french, yes in german].

You may be Autistic if...

... when asked "Are you mad?", you reply with "No, just eccentric".

... when asked "Is it raining outside?", you reply with "Is WHAT raining outside?"

... when asked "Is this seat taken?", you reply with "No, it's still there".

... when asked "Why are you always so serious?", you reply with "What do you mean 'Always'? Oh my God!! Have you been STALKING me?"

Frickin' dammit, YES. And in corporate documentation and public-facing publications of any kind (signs, brochures, labels, forms, etc.).

And it's worse in published novels. Certain publishers during certain years must have fired all their competent editors, I swear.

I used to work at my local newspaper as a proofreader. The spelling and grammatical errors drove me crazy!

You may be Autistic If...

... you go so far as to correct the posts to which you am replying.

... you totally get the following joke:

Texas Cowboy: "Where are you from?"

Harvard Grad: "I come from a place where we do not end our sentences with prepositions."

Texas Cowboy: "Okay ... where are you from, jackass?"

Uh. <sigh>

... you've been promoted to Admiral Literal.

... your reading habits are so ... eclectic ... that Amazon's algorithms have up and started offering coloring books.

Gotcha!

<* maniacal laughter *>

^^^ If you didn't get the joke, even though you saw the "am"