You Might be an Aspie if...

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... if you think every good looking person is always flirting with you simply because you like the ego boost.

Pasta

Only 4

Only 3 (I have ADHD)

3 years - at that point my someone told her I wanted to ask her out.

They don't even hear me when I yell....

Linux for bedrooms....sigh....

And all this time I thought that was normal! (What's not normal is the two other alarms that tell me when to get up (vs wake up), and when to get ready to leave the house...)

Or get times for a movie, or find a phone number, or get directions to an address...

You might be neurounique if...

you win dozens of games of Freecell in a row in spite of the fact that you always arrange the suits in the same order: clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades.

you're a computer geek who writes all his papers with a fountain pen.

you can dissasemble and assemble almost any mechanical object without directions but can't follow the direction of a conversation.

you remember by association but can't associate faces with names.

when people pull out their souvenirs from summer vacation you can't understand why they're not facinated with the frozen chick embryo you retrieved from a store bought egg.

others can't understand why what impressed you most about the world trade tower bombing was the way the buildings fell straight to the ground and didn't hit any other buildings.

you forget what your therapist looks like after not seeing her for two weeks

you forget what your mother looks like after not seeing her for a few months (and you're frightened when you do see her because for a moment she looks like a stranger)

it took you 20 years to learn how to spell the word "their," but spelling "onomatopoeia" isn't a problem

you can't stop writing for this topic once you've got started....

The rest of your family wants to watch American Idol and you want to watch an episode of the original Star Trek.

Ah, yes, I can associate with that. I've had a few cases where I watched a stand-up special on TV and laughed about twice as much when I turned the captioning on...

Been through that one a number of times!


Yep. Sometimes I even bite them to the point that they bleed.


Even worse: they don't hear my normal voice, and then when I try to speak loudly, they tell me to keep it down. Argh!


Car? What car? If I could write a program for a car to drive itself, then I might have one. :p


YES. I've decided that I need to start scanning in papers, because I don't lose them in piles when they're saved on my computer...


I've had to do this for college classes.


YES. Yes, yes, yes! Doubly so for having to make a phone call; with my poor auditory processing, I'd rather visit them in person than that.


Heh, I've done that, and sometimes I forget that I have the list in the first place!

If you turn your hot chocolate into a Communist revolutionary.

If you try to make it look as if your washing basket has committed suicide.

I thought it was a planned implosion the first time I saw the towers fall.

......if you didn't cry on 9/11 but cried watching Princess Diana's funeral on television.



......if you were the only one in class who knew what an onomatopoeia was.
And yes, I still mix their/there and where/were/wear.

I did not cry at Princess Diana's funeral or on 9/11.

... You saw the news of what was going on at Columbine on TV and you were not shocked and actually laughed.

If your favourite television programme is a documentary about Columbine.

...When American Idol started you didnt know who Rooben was and why your friends wre jumping and saying Go Rooben.

...You dont watch reality tv.

...You name your plants.

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[quote="ilikedragons"

...You don't watch reality tv.

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That dosn't mean you have AS. That just means you have good taste. However, in the beginning when all the really terrible people sing on American Idol, I do tune in. Its hilarious to see some of the rediculous acts that come on stage.

That dosn't mean you have AS. That just means you have good taste. However, in the beginning when all the really terrible people sing on American Idol, I do tune in. Its hilarious to see some of the rediculous acts that come on stage.[/quote]

Yeah, it's only good when they're showing the overconfident lousy people.

However, the spoof that actually SEARCHED for the worst singer in america sucked. (I saw about one episode, but it was more like two half episodes that I gave up forcing myself to see. It made American Idol look like Shakepeare.)

You might be an Aspie if you knew you could move mountains but finally did nothing because, invariably, at some key point down the road, you had to deal with real poeple....

You might be an Aspie if most of the time, everybody catches the same message while you're the only one who caught something else.

You might be an Aspie if on an ordinary day, while talking to others, you think "It's not what i meant..." 5 times or more, add 10 points if you're still sure you were clear and don't see how they could get it wrong.

You might be an Aspie if when you go to a grocery store you never went before, you feel like if you never went to a grocery store at all.

You might be an Aspie if you use parts of commercial in your conversations and assume everyone will catch.

-If, whenever somebody has used this metaphor in the past, you've wondered each time why in the world somebody would ever want to move a mountain, so lovely and majestic right where it is, that you've concluded that's a terrible metaphor and you think Jesus was crazy to have suggested moving it in the first place...

-If, despite this last conclusion, you still feel you can do anything you set your mind to. Though you would still never move a mountain, simply out of principle.