You Might be an Aspie if...

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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.

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the obvius one's

...if you consider one of the following a hero: Isaac Asimov, Nicholai Tesla, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Niels Bohr...

...if you'd rather read up on soviet and nazi-german decorations than do your homework.

...if other people regularly points out the old-fashioned or bureaucratic way you talk even though you make an effort not to.

OHHHH GOD do I ever hate that! And of course when you see a TV set up like that, it's a pretty safe bet that their progressive-scan/component output DVD player is rigged up to go through the VCR, which connects to the TV via a coax cable.

I fixed a friend's 16:9 TV so it wouldn't stretch 4:3 programming. I thought he'd be appreciative of the fact that it no longer turned everything into a distorted mess. Instead he made me switch it back because he wanted to see the whole 52" screen filled out, regardless of how bad it looks.

He also once asked me to set up his 5.1 surround sound system, which I gladly did because I enjoy that kind of stuff. I got the speakers positioned and aimed PERFECTLY-- precisely the same distance between the left & right fronts / left & right rears when sitting in the center of the couch, every parameter on the receiver was tweaked, I adjusted the speaker output levels to make it reproduce surround sound as faithfully as possible, etc. It sounded SO nice.

He walked in, and immediately hated it because you could see the speakers. Then he complained that he couldn't hear anything out of the surround speakers. I tried to explain that they're for ambience and you're not really supposed to notice them in most cases, but he insisted on cranking them up and enabling one of those stupid "concert hall" DSP modes so they're always blaring. He ended up moving the speakers so they're more hidden, even though that means the left rear speaker is about 2 feet behind the front, whereas the right rear is about 15 feet away. Needless to say, it sounds like crap now.

Was concerned this thread wasn't nearly long enough-and no, I'm not kidding.

Superfluous to say this, but SO true.
I'm constantly looking for "what's wrong with this picture/what's going on here?", so I re-read things & ponder & ruminate & flip-flop mentally.
I download as PDF's the long threads I want to read, later I can actually absorb some material, at my leisure. Print out the pages that seem of most interest, because I can't concentrate on info. on the computer screen.

A few more..

-You are the very first person your friends consult if they are having car problems, their computer is acting up, they want to know the best TV to buy, they can't figure out a confusing phone bill, or they need a hand assembling a piece of furniture. But if they're having relationship problems, they go to anyone BUT you for advice.

-If you end up at a bar/club, you spend the whole time sitting there and critiquing their lighting & sound system, and how you'd set it up differently.

-A year later, your friends still talk about the time when you went out and got so drunk that you actually started approaching people and talking to them.

-You know the brand name, model number, and specifications of every component in your computer along with every piece of electronic equipment that you own. Along with those of your friends and family members. Yet you'd find it difficult to recognize someone you've known for 3 months in a crowd.

-Somebody asks you how much horsepower your car has. 5 minutes later, you're still explaining how the engine computer controls the two-stage intake manifold in order to flatten the torque curve and maximize low-end torque while allowing for good breathing at high RPM.

-Your computer is in an old beat-up beige case with the side panels removed. It looks like a 486 that was recovered from a dumpster. But it is constantly kept up-to-date with the best hardware you can afford, and blows away most PC's on the market.

LOL this is so me.

me, too

not with cars, but just about everything else mechanical...

sigh. if only. me spends money on stupid things like pirates of the crimson coast...[/quote]

*When you wish you could go into other people's posts and correct their html tags, spelling, punctuation and grammar because it's like nails on a chalkboard when you see errors.
(Don't worry, I wouldn't. I don't think.....)

*When you wish these boards had spell/grammar check because you hate incorrect spelling, punctuation and grammar in posts yet you can't spell your way out of a paper bag with holes.

*If you almost feel like you're getting high when putting red marks all over people's papers while grading their use of punctuation, grammar and spelling.

*When you wonder how on earth news publications who have access to all the spelling software in the world still make errors even my 8-year old brother can spot.

*When you haven't applied for a job as a proof-reader because you're too scared of being subjected to critism and don't want to risk failure.

You might be an Aspie if you blurt out strange words while driving (or as a passenger) because you have to make a word out of every license plate. Sometimes it's extra hard.

I just thought of this one...

If you ended up doing at least 200 more push-ups during basic training because you couldn't explain why you started laughing when the Drill Instructors started yelling at you or another person.

You might be an Aspie if:

* You use your toddler sitting in the bike seat behind you as cover for visibly talking to yourself while biking somewhere.

* All your friends and family know to call twice in rapid succession if they actually want you to answer the phone.

* You grin like an idiot when you're told bad news or are in a heated argument with your husband.

* You do not notice your mother's face lift, even after she moves in close and asks you what's different about her.

* You wear the same clothes for as many days in a row as you can. (My average is 4 - undies do get changed every day, but not socks)

* When you find a piece of clothing you like, you buy at least 3 of it, in the same color (black).

* You buy anything that can be bought online, online, to avoid having to leave the house and interact with people. Including groceries.

* When you used to go to the grocery store (before the marvelous invention of online grocery shopping), you rehearsed what you would say to the cashier and in which tone of voice the entire time you stood in line. "Fine, thanks." "Fine! Thanks." "Fine, and you?" "Fine, thanks. And you?" ......

Thank the Universe for those electronic self checkouts!