You Might be an Aspie if...

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i screen all my calls; people know they need to talk to the machine first.

everybody doesn't do this?

lol, same behavior, same color...

unless you are a cheapskate like me and go to the store to get day old stuff - but I do use the self check out...

even if i practice i get this wrong: "thanks for shopping with us." "fine thanks..."

If you thought about the self checkout lines , what they represent and the logical conclusion to what might happen to labor as a result. And then you stopped using the self-checkout line as a result of your analalysis. Then impatiently paced in long check-out lines, while reconsidering your previous conclusion. All the while talking through your arguments audibly. After such long, exhausting, and painful time spent in this process, while feeling like everybody is looking at you, because they are. and finally reching the 'person to person' check-out you align all your product just so, that the barcode does not have to be searhed for, wasting more time than it would have taken for the knowledgeable expert to do their job, if you had only just dumped eveything onto the counter. All the while and after having memorized the price of every item wathing the computer for correct charges. And knowing in advance what the final cost will be + tax have exact change ready, so you can dump IT on the counter as a means of avoiding the actual brushing of the hands. AND/OR paying with your debit card for the same said reasons. And finally, reaching your car, you sit there for 10 minutes because your completely worn out and need a chance to catch your breath. In doing so you gave yourself the time required to remember that you forgot what you actually came for. Then you go back and do it again. On second thought you realize that it just wasn't worth it. So you go home, go online and buy the product and pay extra for direct shipping to your residence.

---you may be an aspie, 3rd generation or more.

might be an aspie if...

your favorite part of working retail is inventory day because
a) Your dont have to talk to anyone
b) you get to count things

you almost dont need to do a count because you have the inventory already memorized

You end up spending an ungodly amount of time doing the count because you have a very strong need to re-orginize everything as you go

You memorize the price and location of every item in the store and drive your family nuts telling them.

...you fancy yourself a writer, but have no sense of sentence structure, whithe the most notable difficulty in avoiding run on sentences, because tou think that a well placed comma makes it a legitimate sentence, and you could think of no other way to communicate the information in a standard, as well as, concise fashion, thus making you a sentence run-oner, in conclusion, that's what would make some-one an aspie, if, they wrote as they think in their own head.

I love self-checkouts in theory. Unfortunately I've only ever encountered one that worked well and could accomodate a lot of stuff. It had a conveyor belt and everything, like a normal checkout.

I hate how most of them only have space for a few bags, and how if I remove a bag before paying to make space, it freaks out and forces me to wait for a cashier to come over and resume it, thereby forcing the very human interation I'm trying to avoid. Many I've used would also pull that "please wait for assistance" crap for apparent reason whatsoever.

And even when they are working properly, they respond sluggishly and are way too dumbed down with all the stupid voice prompts and screens. They should offer an "advanced mode" so those of us with IQs above 50 can use them more efficiently.

What I would really love to see is a restaurant where the tables have a waitress call button, along with a credit card machine. I HATE when I'm ready to leave a restaurant before the check comes. I first try to flag down the waitress, but I'm too subtle. Then I try again, no luck. Then I decide to try being louder, but go too far and get the entire restaurant's attention. Then I have to wait 5 minutes for her to actually bring the bill, 5 minutes for her to come back for my card, and 5 minutes just to get my card back. There is simply no excuse for the process being that inefficient.

You remember the date of birth of your favourite politician (etc.) but not your grandmother.

A national tragedy e.g. 7 July bombings makes you more concerned about the political ramifications than the loss of human life. You also notice that it happened on the above person's birthday and believe this is of significance for his future career.

Innacuracies in news reports about events that happened nine years ago bug you.

You keep a 4,000+ strip long comic of national politics full of famous figures and no-one but you can understand it. It has a detailed cosmology, internal logic and story arc, includes parallel universes and (obscure) historical and literary references, and the characters develop physically according to events and their own actions. It also contains the word "anabasis".

You have ever written a story set in a fictional country and watched it played out (including the same dates, times, protagonists, details etc, not just the general plotline.) on live(-ish) TV. Thus in order to influence events you read the story and look for clues on how you yourself should act, regardless of the "fact" that you are too much of a mere pawn to do anything.

You can judge what's going on in politics without reading a single news item for six weeks, and in fact newspapers and news broadcasts severely alarm you.

The thought of knowing where you are going to be in a week or a month's time is a strange concept.

A dream you've had ever comes true - literally. (I dreamed my favourite pop-star - someone who wouldn't hurt a fly or do drugs etc. - got arrested. Then he was nabbed for mooning Michael Jackson on-stage at the Brits).

(This is all my personal experience so...but it assisted my diagnosis)

You write as if you're speaking and speak as if you're writing.

I used to work with two other programmers, one of whom I'm almost positive is an aspie. We had a certain restaurant to go to for each day of the week, and at most of them, no words were exchanged. We show up, the waitress bought us our drinks (Cherry Cokes) followed by our food.



LOL! I'm 23 and this is the first I've ever realized it's supposed to be a joke. I always interpreted "would you hold it against me?" as merely being equivalent to "would you be offended?"

A few more..

-You can easily handle switching between 30 IE windows/Firefox tabs while being ssh'd in to 2 different servers, writing a program on one while the other is compiling something, as you're listening to music and making sure all your drivers are up to date. But if you're on the phone with somebody, you can barely walk & talk simultaneously.

-You go to thrift stores and have to fight an instinctive urge to buy all their old electronics stuff. The other day I found a top of the line cassette desk - 3 motor direct drive, autoreverse, full logic, VFD meter, Dolby B+C+HX Pro, the works. I was almost to the checkout counter before it occurred to me that I no longer had any cassettes, and haven't listened to one in 3+ years.

-When you are familiar with every thrift, book, music, and coffee shop where you live, but have no idea where to find Old Navy or Hot Topic, or know if one even exists in your town.

-You love taking 8-hour road trips in the dead of night, but spending a half hour in your car running errands on a busy afternoon is nearly enough to land you in a psych ward.

-When you're on the phone with someone from out of town and they ask "So how's the weather over there?", you have to visit weather.com to provide them with an answer.

LOL this is how I get my answering machines and tinkering stuff.

What is Hot Topic? Is it in the US?

this is why I worked overnights for many years...I still travel to my mom's house by leaving between midnight and 4 am.

this seems more common sense than aspergers?

You might be an aspie if your response to encountering the word "anabasis" for the first time was to look it up and inccorporate it, as well as the word "katabasis" into your vocabulary, also finding out that while anabasis is an allowed word in scrabble, katabasis is not (????). Also found anabatic (allowed) and katabatic (not allowed).

You might be an aspie if the above lapse in logic on the part of the scrabble dictionary developers led you to discover that it would be possible to argue successfully that the word katabasis should be allowed in tournament play...

You might be an aspie if after majoring in English and writing extensively in your professional life, you still had to think about how to spell the word "their."

You might be an Aspie if you look forward to spending your entire weeks vacation alone.


*I have access to a vacation home in south Florida, I used to spend a weeks vacation there all alone. No one understands and throught I was so weird to spend all that time alone.....And I truely enjoyed it! I also liked the 1000 mile drive....just give me some good music and it passes in no time.

I do that too!! !

You might be an aspie if you walk three blocks out of your way to check a street map in the 7-11 rather than ask a person for directions.

You might be an aspie if someone is talking to you and you don't hear a word they've said because you were looking at their festive lights.

you might be an aspie if you thought that "biscuits" was one of the major food groups.

oh yes..... you will know us by the trail of biscuit crumbs.

You're so quite and observant people think your an undercover cop (though you hate authority).

You stare at the candy rack in a convience store so long the girl at the counter says to someone on the phone"I have to
go,the holograms here"

You spend hours making up class schedules for universities you have no intention of attending in majors that don't interest you just for the sake of putting schedules together.

The American cival war was your favorite subject.When you were three.

You own 3 backpacks and five sleeping bags, and have gone camping once this year.

You have seen every episode of Xena except the worst two a minmum of 16 times.

One of your other preshool obsessions was memorizing breeding lines of cattle.

Your best friend who works in a bookstore gets to read Linda Carrol's bookin advance and tells you how awful Courtney Love was as a child-and you identify.

Why do the British call cookies biscuits when biscuits are bread? What do you American biscuits?

Sounds great to me!

I'm quite new to this but I give this one a shot:

You might be an aspie when you play the same game on internet until you're totally exchausted night after night for many months. And after you finally quit, you know the same will happen again with another game or addicting activity.

You wore vertical stripe shirts with vertical stripe pants in high school-and thought you were stylin'

You cut your own hair to save money then spend ten bucks the next day on fast food cause you hate to cook.

Kids at fast food resteraunts push free food on you 'cause they think your homeless-and your not.