You Might be an Aspie if...

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If you suddenly realized you are collecting organizational strategies to organize your collections...

You collect things you hesitate to mention on the Asperger's forum (actually I did mention it but you'll have to hunt through my posts to find out...)

Your house is full of parts from things you took apart, not because they were broken, but because you just had to find o ut how it worked.

You have in your head a catalog of all the types of paper clips you have collected....

You thought someone would be interested in your explanation of the different ways of using "right click" "properties."

Someone at work clapped their hand on your shoulder and your social skills weren't good enough to explain why you yelled.

YMBAAI....

it's your first Xmas with your boyfriend, and instead of pestering him for jewelry, you pester him for noise-canceling headphones (which are REALLY cool and effective, btw)

And here I thought I was the only one that fantasizes about buying a lead apron and wearing it ALL THE TIME.

YMBAA...

...if you have repeatedly been forbidden to mention your favorite topic to strangers for fear of boring them by your parents.

...if you had to be bribed fifty dollars to go to your eighth grade graduation dance.

...if you have to be bullied into picking up the phone.

...if the gift that sent you into a little pile of melted goo was the all-comprehensive 400+-breed Encyclopedia of the Dog.

...if you have to be alternately coerced and bribed to go to a sports game with your family. (Ten points extra if the sports game in question is your little sister's indoor soccer game.)

...if you have been mocked by your family because your use of colloquial slang appears to be from turn-of-the-century Britain but you have never left America.

...if you have been hailed as the repository of all useless information in the world by classmates.

....if your friends have refered to you as robo-(insert your name)....example: robo-Steve.

You tell your freinds about an alien experience you mother claimed to have when she was a teenager and before you can finish the story your freind blurts out "Well that explains everything about you!! !!"

After a long day on the motorcycle, you come inside and lay on the bed still dressed in fully armored leather jacket and pants with full face helmet and earplugs.
You notice how comfortable you feel laying in them and immediately pass out. You then secretly fantasize about sleeping in them regularly but think it TOO weird.

YMBAAI....

If you are watching this thread to see when it gets to 500 replies....

YMBAAI....Wrong Planet is your homepage.

It's my homepage.

...if you find yourself chewing someone else out for not wanting to call aliens aliens and going into a detailed explanation of the word's original meaning and why calling an alien what used to be an old word for foreigner makes more sense--in a thread complaining about the illogic of supposed alien abductions.

...when no one wants to watch movies with you because you always want to complain that what they're doing doesn't make any sense.

YMBAAI... you can't sleep at night because you have new sheets on the bed and they don't feel the same as the old ones.

You might be an aspie if... instead of playing a video game you put a thread into a forum only to find out later that it should be somewhere else but to move it will distract others from wanting to post into that thread and the thread itself might get lost in the eternal consciousness of the machine.

You might be an aspie if.... you post verbose comments.

YMBAAI:
You are afraid to try to get three references for grad school because you can't think of any job you've had where people would remember you, not your work, in a positive light.

You take better care of your animals when they're sick than your significant others.

You have to have something to read while you're eating, even if it's the cereal box.

You have to choose earplugs carefully - if they're too effective you can hear your own pulse and your breathing and it's way too distracting

Your family knows the most important thing for family harmony is to never invite people over to your house without checking with you first.

Being dishonest is impossible.

me

super me

me too. noise cancelling headphones work for this. also for some reason the porous ones, though they block less sound, leave me with less of my own noise.

me, but i'm working on it.

YMBAAI: you are rooting for Sean's thread to get to response #500

go sean!
i just had to do that.

YMBAAI
you thought of post whoring on someone else's behalf...

*sticks tongue out at larval*

...when noise canceling headphones and earplugs don't work well enough for you.

...if you are sitting in a computer lab with many people to talk to, and you instead log onto the WrongPlanet forums.

...when you'd rather miss an entire show than only see the last half of it.

You might be an aspie if you look like Albert Einstein... and stick your tongue out!

YMBAAI:
You wake up depressed and lethargic and people beat up on you.

i love this thread!! !! !! !! !!


--you have to sneak to pick your scabs because your kids will smack your hands

--your husband nearly has his arm amputated and his cut heals faster than your tiny scratch

--you have scabs over a year old

--people put the squeaky chair where you are going to sit (because they know where you are going to sit), so they can snicker when your rocking makes nonstop squeaking music

--you give your dogs more affection than your husband and kids

--people love to tell you dumb blonde jokes because they know you won't get it (and no, i'm not a blonde!! !)

--your kids have nicknamed you "booger butt" (aspergers/a--boogers)

--you love it when people take the time to explain their jokes

--you have to be told ahead of time someone is joking

--you can't understand why people use a colon and parenthesis all the time in their e-mails, and even after it's explained that it's a smiley face you still don't get it until you inadvertantly look under the desk at your dog and baby and see it sideways and it finally dawns on you

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