You Might be an Aspie if...

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...If you think aromatherapy is a form of torture.

Wow...looking at a lot of these makes me realize just how much of an atypical Aspie I really am.

You do not have to fit into every statement here.

.... You can plan a public transit trip better than the transit systems computers.

...You dont know why people steal your hubcaps.

Why?

If someone engages you in a game of license plate bingo and then quits in disgust because you not only have identified more plates, but also know the varieties of vanity, commercial, official and police plates for each state within a few days of starting the game.
And because you keep calling them with new plates well after the trip is over....

True story. My town is a college town and I have 32 of 51 possible plates (Hawaii is a longshot but I got Alaska, and Washington DC has both vanity and regular plates) collected here in a 10 day period....

The vanity plate for Washington DC reads, "Taxation without Representation"
I thought that was funny.
My favorite so far is Arizona. I like the purple cactus.

OOPS.

Didn't someone say you might be an aspie if you go on and on and on about something?
Stopping now.

You know you're an aspie when you're watching Revenge of the Sith, and you wonder how many polygons were rendered in digital Dooku's head.

Or when you process the visual effects (what's real, CG, minature, etc) as you're watching the movie for the first time.

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.