You Might be an Aspie if...

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You ask your mum at 5 years of age all kinds of questions about death: why do people die? where do they go? and so on and you actually understand some of the answers.

At 9 and 10 years of age, your dad confides all kinds of personal details to you because he feels he can speak to you as an intellectual equal.

You get into an argument with your teacher because she says some flowers that are a little bit wilted are dead and you don't and want to take them home for your mum.

You have a major meltdown because the teacher wants to throw away all the pretty pictures on the wall because it is near the end of the school year and won't let you take them home.

It often takes a few seconds' delay for you to "get" a joke and there are some others that you never really understand.

You cry at kindy because you think a decorated cake is "too pretty to eat".

You don't like to walk on powdery dust with bare feet because it makes your feet feel icky.

If you hate the feel of mud.

If you realize at 17, everything other than AS that you've been dx'ed with is AS when all combined(excluding some ADD). Da*n shrinks, get it right the first time please.

If you, as an 11 year old boy walk five miles in North Dakota in March wearing your church clothes clothes without a jacket.

If your 7th grade English picks you and your chair up in the middle of class and holds you upside down by the ankles because you're spaced out, and "not paying attention"

If you first read about breaking global news stories on WP before checking the news http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules.php? ... pic&t=3935

If you decide, during the summer before your junior (11th) year in high school, that you will - for no other reason than to see if you can do it - wear only dress pants or skirts for the entire school year and never once put on jeans to go to school.

I failed on three occasions. I failed, I say! ...Failed!! !

You might be an aspie if...

... you consider structuring your posts so they fall only on certain colors (ie: the green instead of the blue)

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If you like the idea of flying in a bin.

...If you sit and hit the refresh button obsessively waiting for people to post someting here.

If you've memorized an unnatural number of windows shortcut keys including, but not limited to, F5 for refresh; and you use them all on a regular basis.

If it pains and disgusts you when someone moves your possesions, even if they don't damage them.

YMBAAI......You can't believe that the person you are talking to is *not* interested in your current obsession....and when they get up the courage to come to you again a week later and ask you about what you were interested in, you can hardly bear to talk about it because you are now interested in something else

...if you thought all these great jokes would make a great list...

...your mom called to say hi and to let you know she's about to call Apple tech support...
(it took me a week to figure out this means she wants ME to fix the computer...)

...you spent ten years studying psychology and got a PhD, but still can't figure out terms like "she's the apple of his eye" without doing more research.

...you find office supply stores soothing.

...your idea of a hot date is a trip to the office supply store (bookstore, computer store/show)...
(yes, I did)

...you meet someone who thanks you for your help and you say, Oh, I didn't do anything to help you, and you mean it because you helped her in the parking lot and don't recognize her now that you're inside...
(did this too)

...lived with someone for 8 years and didn't recognize her 6 months after breaking up.
(yup, this too)

...you have to put the cursor over the emoticons to figure out what they mean...

...you find emoticons vaguely disturbing....

...someone says, oh that actress has such lovely blue eyes! and you realize you don't know the eye color of any actor in the movie you just saw...

...your room is a cross between a junkyard, a computer/electronics store and an eight year old child's room, yet you know where everything is..

...you obsessively collect things with parts (spirograph, lego, rush hour etc)

...you obsessively collect parts of things (pens, door knobs and locks, computers, venetian blinds, radios, kitchen gadgets, cameras, cd cases, game pieces...)

...you can tell if there's a spelling, grammar or math error in a document, but you can't tell what someone meant when they said visit anytime and it's a school for emotionally disturbed kids.
(someone telling me I did a good job on a crisis eval)

...you can read a hundred pages in a couple of hours but you can't read the expression on the face of the person you just asked for a date.

...someone tells you your EQ is impaired and you think they're referring to a statistcs program.

...you feel horrible having no friends and within minutes you've forgotten why you felt so bad.

...your cat's behavior is more understandable than most human behavior.

...you're good at puzzles but human behavior puzzles you.

...you're laughing while reading this

.....If both your NT 21 year-old brother and 17 year-old sister have drivers licenses but you don't....at age 30.

.....If your NT 7 year-old brother will have a car before you do.

.....If said 17 year-old NT sister is embarrassed about being around you.

.....If you sleep until 6pm the day after your mother leaves after visiting you from out of state.

.....If you got a degree but still work for practically minimum wage because respectable employers view shyness as a bigger character fault than a criminal record.

.....You like stuffed animals more than jewelry.

.....You think high heels ought to be criminalized.

.....If people who call talk to your answering machine more than you.

.....You wonder why in movies in which there's a mis-understanding between characters and one of them keeps saying, "I can explain!" and they never just come right out and explain themselves, before the other party refuses to hear the explaination.

.....Your keyboard gets a greater workout than your voice.

.....Wonder why NTs make everything simple so complicated.

... If, when somebody mentions 'NT', you think of a certain computer O/S shipped out of Redmond.