You Might be an Aspie if...

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You might be an aspie if you buy a model of the latest motorcycle you're in love/obsessed with.
Your one friend comments on how you'll own the real motorcycle before you ever put the model togrther.
Less than one month after buying the model, you plung deeper into debt and travel 1200 miles round-trip with your one friend to pick up said *real* motorcycle while your one friend becomes noticeably irritable and goes almost insane becasue of the lack of conversation during the trip.

1.5 years later the model is still in the box completely untouched/unassembled on my desk covered with dust while the real bike is in my garage.



True story.

You might be an Aspie if you are accused of being pathologically excessive with concern to the consupmtion of one specific type of food- bonus points if that food is normally considered "healthy."

((My therapist told I was the first patient he had to overdose on PEARS- which I had never eaten non-canned before this month, and I'm 19, might I add (it gets better). OK, so maybe haveing six a day IS a little excessive... Anyway I found it kind of funny.))

If anyone has ever ask you"were you an invisible friend as a child?" you might be an aspie.

If your nineth grade teacher assigns 5-10 page paper,and you hand in 35 pages a week late,there's a good chance you're
aspie.

If you keep telling strangers embarrasing things about yourself that most people would never mention, you're probably aspie.

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Or, if you had an invisible friend till age 7!!

If you barely past eight grade, but meanwhile you tried to build a replica third world country on a plywood table so you
could figure out how to develop it, chances are good you're an aspie.

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OMGoodness. Last Christmas I was asked to get a gift cerficate from there. I not only didn't know if there was one in town, I had no idea what they carried! Given the name, I assumed it was a bookstore.

It's a fashion store for young adults....

You might be an aspie if you work out regularly and are in relatively good shape, but a brief walk through the mall leaves you disoriented, out of breath, and frustrated.

*raises hand*



Or if you still have one.

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Very much so. I discuss personal problems with people and call it small talk. Just ask anyone who has been on chat with me.

Or if your G.I.Joes were your best friends in 6th grade..

Or your computer was your best friend your first year at university...(I'm guilty of this one.)

how old are you? I wanna see if I have you beat!! !

Wow...this was a fun thread, gotta love that AS sense of humor. There were a bunch on here that I could really sympathize with...too many to list. I had to comment on this one, though: "You feel affection for said calculator." TI-85 for life!! I liked it better than the 86 and 83+, if only for the square case and buttons.
This story made me want to cry, rearden...that's why I gave up trying to help people set their stuff up right. The worst part is when they have much better equipment than you but it's just going to waste. I've learned to suffer in silence. "how the engine computer controls the two-stage intake manifold"...VTEC, right? My ex-roommate, who probably has AS, used to talk about the honda engines all the time (he had a '04 Civic).
catwhowalksbyherself, you wouldn't be interested in sharing this comic, would you?

Note: OP=On Preview, ie I wrote these first and then added the comments after reading the thread further.

...you've had a teacher congratulate you on your insightful questions but ask that you refrain from asking anymore because they're confusing the rest of the class and taking up too much time. (OP: sophist pretty much covered this)
...someone has called you weird, odd, strange, eccentric or bizarre to your face...and you thanked them for it. (OP: nayashi beat me to it)
...people are always wondering what you're laughing about, it takes you 5 minutes to explain the amusing scenario/memory that you were envisioning and when you finish they simply give you a quizzical look and change the subject/walk away.
...you've been told you sound like an android/computer.
...you've memorized windows product keys. (this is a 25 character alphanumeric code)
...when you were younger you laid in bed crying because you were unable to comprehend infinity.
...after years of wondering what's "wrong with me" you finally hear about AS and it all makes a lot more sense.
...you're inadvertently talking quietly and after being asked to repeat yourself for the third time you accidentally yell your statement.
...you'll still laugh at jokes that are explained to you.
...after mulling it over for a while you tell someone what you _really_ meant to say when you confused them earlier...a week earlier.
...you [starts flapping hands] AGH!! I CAN'T HANDLE IT ANYMORE!! ! [starts banging head one desk] [calming down] Whew...gotta love those endorphins...

And yes, they're all self-referential.

i haven't read all the contributions to this thread yet but, out of the ones that i have read, this is my favourite one.

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