You Might be an Aspie if...

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...if you are proud of a major accomplishment when you say more than two sentences at the grocery store checkout.

If the side(s) of your computer have been removed, and all the guts are hanging out because you keep switching/installing/fiddling with the various bits.

.....if you praised the Postal Gods for creating Stamps.com or Endicia for your aversion of the post office!! !! !! !! !! !! !!




also...

if you've asked the Schwan's Food and Ice cream delivery man to stock eggs, milk, and feminine hygiene products on his truck!! !! (grocery store aversion)

You actually like to be alone, for days at a time.

When your fondest dream is to build a robot out of the junk you've collected over the years (which mostly includes string and circuitboards of radios).

....when you've read this entire thread, front to back, in one sitting, thought up 25 new ones and by the time you got to the end, you forgot them all and got so pissed at yourself you had to go outside and have a smoke and chill out.


the hurricane one sounds familiar tho. Many years ago, living by myself, working tech support... one day in late November, I get up, go to work and - the door's locked. WTF? Idiots. Screw this, I'm goin home.
Go home, do some 3d and Photoshop and the stomach informs me it'd like to be fed. Well, since I have the day off, I'm going to my favorite restaurant. Grab a book and head out (walking distance)...start reading on the way (I can navigate fairly well using peripheral vision) get to the restaurant, pull on the do.. it's locked too. WTF? Now I'm starting to get irritated. I look at the door and see a sign - Closed For Thanksgiving.
WTF? It's Thanksgiving? It was just Halloween, like, yesterday. This is stupid.
Denied my New Orleans-style mashed potatoes, I head home. Just walk in the front door when the phone rings. This is unusual. Most people know to email me.
On a whim, I pick it up. It's one of my aunts.
"Hey, do you want a ride?"
"To where?"
"To our house."
"For what?"
"Are you serious?"
"Usually. You didn't answer my question."
"*sigh* Sweetie, it's Thanksgiving... whole famdamily's over here."
"Sonoafabitch. The sign was right."
"Sign?"
"The one at Harrigans."
"Sorry, you've lost me yet again."
"Sorry... I just went to go get some food because my office was closed for some reason, and the sign on the door at Harrigans said they were closed for Thanksgiving."
"I see. Yes, it's Thxgiving. Today. Now-ish, in fact. Want a ride?"
"Where? Oh, right. Sure. Please."
"I'll send (other aunt) over to get you...see you in a few"

other aunt shows up ... "Did you seriously forget it was Thanksgiving? You goof. Come on, let's get you some food. Rest of the family hasn't seen you in over 6 months. (despite living in the same town and only 10 minutes drive from some of them, hehehe)

You might be an aspie if...

You remember something you wanted to read or look at, decide to look for it, get frustrated when you can't find it, and refuse to stop looking for it right when you have to go to sleep for school the next morning.

You watch the same parts of a movie or DVD over and over again to see your favorite character or event.

You daydream about adding things to video games you play repeatedly.

You try to find synonyms to use instead of "like" when you are speaking.

You insist on searching for something you really want in a store when the employee tells you it isn't available.

You hate talking on the phone and prefer to use email.

You draw (if that is your obsessive interest or one of your obsessive interests) something over and over again until it looks exactly the same as the object you are drawing.

You live in a fantasy world until something "pulls" you out of it (or not).

You think that everyone thinks the same way you do or thought that until you realize differently (or you might not)

You repeatedly search for something a company hasn't made yet, hoping it is there, such as Nintendo making a Pikmin 3, Bill Waterson making a Calvin and Hobbes animated series or movie.

You post on this thread because the reply count says 599, and you think 600 is a cool number.

600 replies! Woot!

You are the oldest unmarried cousin in your family, are sitting at your parents' house on Thanksgiving on the computer at two in the morning, and you think it's really cool to start a thread in the Random forum to see how many concentric quote boxes you can post until they start disappearing.

You stay up til 2:30 when you have to work at 6, knowing that the OCD will leave you unable to sleep, lest you fail to make to work on time, thus rendering you into a very enjoyable meditative state for the next two and a half hours.

Upon glancing at the clock, you will calculate time remaining, savouring the thought of having peace and quiet for the next one hour and 14 minutes.

Exactly one minute later, you will do it again. Since it is now 3:45, you know that you can only check the time increments every five minutes.

If you should fail to catch it, you will convince yourself that you are simply efficient and early for the next five minutes, and resolve to carefully monitor the minutes until then. Return to the third Paragraph.

...if you're fascinated by all the great stuff you find reading old books, then you realize that everybody you have a conversation with is dead.

Wow, I have just got through 41 pages of this thread - thanks for the great laughs - and truths!!

I can relate to many, here are some of mine:

... when you are referred to by some as the "spelling police" (I can't bear spelling errors, and it's even worse when I do a post or email someone and make typos of my own - I generally add another post or email back with an apology!!)

... when you live in a pigsty but your office desk at work is in complete order and you are complimented on your neatness

... when your boss or workmates say something good about the work you have done but feel embarassed as you feel it was nothing special

... when you dread Christmas because of all the family friends/relatives that want to hug and kiss you when you arrive and then you have to brace yourself for going through all of that again when you leave

... when you want to be in a monogamous relationship but are terrified of commitment (go figure - I'm over that now - I now don't want either!!)

... when you have the compulsion to go to a supermarket late at night just to see if you can get a $9 hot roast chicken discounted to under $5

... when you actually would rather do this on a Friday/Saturday night than anything else!

... when you need to write everything down to remember it, but then lose the bit of paper you wrote it down on and you are back to square one

... when you are obsessed by a particular book, reading it fifteen times in a row, but not being able to recite its' contents once moving onto another obsession

... when your memory is like a sieve with some things (generally considered "important"), and like an elephant with others (important to us but not to others)

... when you can create fantastic, verbose essays out of virtually nothing!

... when the majority in your class hand in 4 page assignments, while your assignment is 47 pages long

... when you go on and on about your own problems but are mentally elsewhere when people decide to confide in you (this is the one thing that I feel bad about)


That's all I can think of for the moment

Jus

-- The computers go down at the video store where you work, but you are able to recall all the movies that people actually rent by title, section (and place on the shelf), and inventory number.

-- Ten years later, you still remember a lot of them.

-- You curled up into a little ball at prom and couldn't figure out why.

-- You flunked out of art college because you were up until oh-gods-thirty on the free internet, then turned around and went into computers for your career.

-- You've decined to say something because you couldn't form the sentence without it ending in a preposition, and that's something up with which you cannot put.

-- if ( $self->thinks_in_php() == "sometimes" ) { ymbaa() ; )

You go out at 7:30 on a cold November evening to buy a cola, insdead of doing so, durring daylight.