You Might be an Aspie if...

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You might be an Aspie if, you go around mimicking voices of actors from films..

Or if Andrew Lloyd Weber is one of your all-time favorite composers, and "Don't cry for me, Argentina" is one of your all-time favorite songs, and you run into a clue "Andrew Lloyd Weber" musical, on the grid xxxxa. You spend at least ten minutes, _knowing_ what musical you're looking for, and trying to make "Imelda" fit, but just not enough letters. So you bring up the song in your head, get to "Argentina" instead of something meaning "The Philippines" and see where you've gone wrong: wrong "Mrs. Deposed Dictator", wrong high-living "Sister of the Shirtless", just the woman with too many (expensive) shoes. Evita. Getting around the old Aspie "not remembering names" the long way around. But at least I _was_ able to pull it out of my messed-up filing system. And do you know what "Blessed" almost-saint Imelda Marcos was named for? Well, I do!

I'll be sorry to lose Monk. He and I have so much in common, but I'm not really obsessive-compulsive, just the little bit that goes with Asperger's, and he makes me look sane, and yet is so lovable (most of the time).

... If you still post a reply after 135 other posts

... If you can offend someone without even talking

... If you're still reading this forum at 4.47am

... If you get annoyed at even overhearing small talk

... If you go clothes shopping and can't find anything in the colours, materials or styles that you like

... If you talk to yourself more than your co-workers

... If you have lots of projects on the go

... If you'd rather sit at home on New Years Eve than go out with the masses

you might be an Aspie if you make hard stares at other people...

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You may be a female Aspie if you can't understand that most male Aspies are sex-fixated male virgins...

Hey I take exception to that... I'm not a virgin!

You might be an aspie if your sister tells you that you are in Star Wars mode.

You might be LonerMutant if you assume that every other aspie male is exactly the same as you.

The trouble with that is that the clickability of ball point pens has nothing to do with rationality, logic, or mechanical principles. It's witchcraft. I have never yet been able to fix a pen that didn't work properly.

Sounds like my restaurant experience. I never had a job bagging groceries, only my own sometimes, but that sounds like me too. I can be good, or I can be fast, but I can't be good AND fast.!

YMBAAI
You deliberately plan to go to a restaurant about 3PM, for those same reasons, since you don't eat on a regular schedule yourself anyway

I like this one.

You might be an Aspie if you enjoy narrating films un-intentionally...

I have Oscar in his can on my computer table. He came from my daughter's Sesame Street play set, after she outgrew it (she's 35 now) But I never realized why, except that he wants to be alone a lot (I never heard of Asperger's until a few years ago-- was diagnosed last year).

It's in one of the books that I've been reading (quotes approximate) "No Aspie was ever born who could hear the words 'How are you' as anything but a request for information." And it's true, too, at least of me. Ever since I was a child, I've known theoretically that it's a greeting, meaning nothing, but I still have to stop to consider before I answer it whether they really want to know (i.e., a doctor or a nurse or somebody who's really concerned because he/she knows I've been sick, and cares) or just somebody with that greeting habit. Then, if it's the latter, I try to figure out what I should say, because "fine" would be a lie, much of the time, and I know they really don't want to hear an "organ recital" from me. So I try to settle for something more or less a joke: for years I used "Surviving", but then there was the occasional person who really got concerned about that, as if I'd meant "Just barely surviving", and was really dying or something, so I started using "Puttin' one foot in front t'other" in Redneck dialect (that's a lot of my neighbors, and me too, to tell the truth). But it was still _years_ before I learned to add "And you?" automatically, where since they're talking to me, and apparently as fine as they need to be, otherwise I don't care, but I'm supposed to show concern about how they are. And I have to go through that whole process of decision every darned time!

Now I'm having trouble with the new popular greeting "Wassup?" I'm probably going to adopt a routine of answering "the sky." I never have figured out what other people say to that, not yet, anyway, until I've eavesdropped on a few people's conversations.