You Might be an Aspie if...

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YMBAAI...

..if your parents start worrying you might be anorexic because you've eaten practically nothing because you're staying at your grandmother's and you have to be forced to eat when you're staying with someone because it just feels wrong to eat at someone else's house.

...you watch this video (http://youtube.com/watch.php?v=V-0pcXZYqnI) over and over trying to figure out the nature of the device they're testing (and, maybe, you think it's funny seeing all those annoying perky people get what they deserve )

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--while grocery shopping with two babies in one cart and items in another cart, you add up all your purchases while you're shopping to see how close you can get to your allotted budgeted money without going over

--the only way you can get yourself to the store is to pour over the sales ads ahead of time and then come armed with coupons, then add up your savings from the sale prices and the coupons while you shop, then gloat over all the money you saved by staring at the reciept all the way home (assuming hubby is driving)

--your room has been dubbed by everyone else in the house as the "quiet zone" but you still have to retreat to your closet

--you have a love seat in your closet and it's the best place in the house

--while writing novels you play the same song over and over again for hours each day, day after day until even though you are in the closet listening to marty robbins "this time you gave me a mountain", your husband is screaming at you to turn it off because it's making him too d***ed depressed

--you have 7-8 novels running in your head and can't wait to run to the closet to write them down

--you've been told over and over again "there's a fine line between genius and insanity"

--you have a callus on the side of your thumb from digging at it with your fingernail

april

ps thanks, and i hope you like the book

...if you balance your checkbook far more than is necessary simply to enjoy the satisfying feeling that comes over you when your numbers match.

...if you say things like, "hey, did you know there are two squares and a prime number in your telephone number? neat!" when other mothers give their contact information for a playdate between your kids.

YMBAAI......while walking to your office, you are trying to think places to do some industrial photography......completely oblivious for days to the fact that you've worked in a steel forge shop (VERY industrial) for 13 years!

....if once you figured out what YMBAAI meant, you automatically turned it into a word that can actually be spoken and not an acronym. (In this case, 'YOOM-BI.')

...you are on your way to get a sonogram and you spend the whole drive over planning how to tell the tech that you REALLY NEED to be able to watch the screen also

AND

...while you're lying on the table you're actually enjoying yourself because the noise of the enormous machine is so soothing and the person is applying pressure to a nice part of the body and she's not even trying to make stupid conversation and the lights are dim...

AND

....the only way you can tolerate going to the grocery store is by promising yourself you'll get the latest People/Star or other trashy tabloid ...

.....You win a chartered 7 day Caribbean cruise for you and one guest valued at $5000. (True. I was automatically enrolled in the drawing when I bought my car).

You decline mainly because you have to share the boat with 10 other guests.
....And you have no one to take.
....and you get sea sick.
....and the tropiscs hot HUMID and lame.
....no computer. (The horror!)
....and you just plain wouldn't enjoy the trip around 10 other strangers.......no way man.

They wouldn't give me the cash value and I couldn't give the trip to a friend or family member so I let it go.



I don't tell many about this......they either think I'm making it all up or insane.

If you feel like throwing something at someone who makes that noise shoes make when there wet on purpose.

If you dont get music videos.

...if, despite the fact that your conversational partner is turning red and raising his or her voice and waving wildly, which you know indicates anger and/or a likely swat on your head, you cannot refrain from pointing out the logical flaws in the clearly overemotional argument he or she is spouting.

...if you consider it your moral duty to point out the logical flaws in someone else's conversation, feeling that to withhold that information from them would deprive them of the opportunity to correct said flaws, which surely they would want to do if they only knew about them?