You Might be an Aspie if...

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Yes! It is a joke around our house...

You might be an Aspie if you can't stand people having seconds or thirds of dessert if there is not enough for everyone to have more. But then when you are tired/upset then it is okay for you to have more, but beware anyone else who thinks they can do it!
(Just happened here, my brother got another piece of cheesecake and I threw a water bottle at him because there wasn't enough for me. )

...if you imagine yourself being there too just so you could shout "Back off, slug!" to her on memesplice's behalf. (How gross and rude of her.)

Is it odd that a lot of people's lists apply to me even though I am supposedly NT?

I quit music lessons as a kid because the slightly older teacher's assistant liked to come up behind me in a sort of 'hug' to teach the guitar, and kept smiling/winking at me, too. I still wish I didn't have to have quit.

A lot of Villette's list rings true, too.

- Every time you move to a new state, you spend as much free time as possible driving the state highways until you have driven every single mile of state highway in a given state
- You annoy the public records people by constantly asking for obscure highway-related documents
- You're a good writer, but you can't form a verbal sentence to save your life
- Wonder why people have to spend so much time studying for exams
- Memorize people's license plate numbers subconsciously on first sight
- You know when a license plate was issued by what the number is
- Remember your parents ATM card number from 20 years ago
- Look forward to going to your data entry job and get excited when you have to enter a number that's slightly unusual
- Have 4397 car brochures, all cataloged into an Excel spreadsheet

How about reciting your coffee order over in your head as you drive to the Starbucks, park, and wait in the line, only to still stammer and sputter at the counter?

grande double hazelnut skim latte....
grande double hazelnut skim latte...
grande double hazelnut skim latte...

In one of your classes, the teacher/professor had to ignore your score when assigning grades in a grading period because your accumulative total was 117% and the next highest score was 64% because the material was exceptionally difficult. Thus, allowing him/her to grade on a curve.

You also pray that this is what the teacher does so everyone doesn't hate you because they all ended up with a failing mark because of you.

You're ecstatic because you find out that the teacher starts the B's at 64%.

If there is more mold in your fridge than there is food.

When you finally get around to throwing out the old food you discover a new type of mold that you've never seen before and are intrigued.

You take off your socks and have to smell them to see if they smell funny. You are unsure so you ask whoever is near you at the time for confirmation.

You don't mind eating pasta dishes or casseroles but you panic when the butter from the corn starts to run into your other food.

The food on your plate can't touch each other and there has to be a safe distance between each type of food.

Sectional paper-plates are considered 'fine china'.

You taste or smell something repulsive and have a physical reaction then politely ask the person that you're with, "If they'd like to try it?".

You daydream about what life would be like in prison and think that it sounds heavenly because it has everything that you need:

Sectional plates
Decisions on what to wear and what to eat are made for you.
Solitude.
A rigid routine.
You know that the library there would be pure bliss because it's material everyone else won't touch.
It's better NOT to be sociable because that only gets you in trouble.

And find the only flaw to be the texture of wool blankets makes you cringe.

YMBAAI: The thought of actually having to talk to someone has ever made you late on a bill or actually get a failure to appear charge given because even going to traffic court for a minor offense makes you feel sick (ugh actually ended up with a warrant for that one and still couldn't bring myself to go to court for a couple months).

If the old man who owns the used bookstore that is your "safe place" downtown knows you as "the smart guy" because you buy new philosophy and psychology texts each week, but never any fiction.

If your therapist apologized to you before she opened her office door because she had rearranged the space and your usual spot in the corner on the floor was gone.

If you didn't recognize your favorite burrito joint when you walked in because they changed the overhead menu layout, you couldn't say your usual order because the words were gone, and you couldn't reconstruct your basic burrito from the make-your-own section because it put you into overload. So you stammered until the cashier asked what you used to get and she ordered your burrito for you and then wrote it down for you.

The person at the burrito joint was nice.
Some people would probably get agitated and that is more likely to bring me to shutdown.
Prison is not that good because people are criminals and they can stab you and probably will because you seem awkward.

You might be an aspie if you failed the Turing test.

You qualify for a doctoral program in epidemiology but panic at the thought of actually getting a job afterward in which you will be happy...

YMBAAI: You have a large collection of rocks covering every windowsill, but know what every type of rock is, how old it is, and where it came from....

YMBAAI: You know exactly what you want from the store, go in, get the item and buy it. No browsing, no lingering, just in, and out as fast as possible.

YMBAAI: You're an adult but still get captivated by Christmas lights, discoballs, holograms, fibre optics and LED's

You might be an Aspie if the thousands of books in your apartment are collected in random piles or in no particular order on the shelves, but you can always find the one you are looking for by going directly to it. (Except for all your copies of the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition which all seem to scuttle away the moment you look for one.)

If your luggage gets turned down on a domestic flight because you've emptied out everything that you can buy again later and filled the spaces with rocks

You always think of a huge circle of stones singing anytime someone says "rock concert"

You're reluctant to go to sleep.

Tee hee, I'm not the only person then!! There's nothing harder than trying to choose which rocks to bring and which rocks to leave, every time I go somewhere new (rock-wise) my backpack is full of rocks, so are my pockets

Do you have any favourites? There's an area of Barrovian metamorphism near me and I absolutely love going there, it starts out as conglomerate, transitions through horneblendes, chlorites/silimanites/kyanites and then we get to the bits where there has been granitic intrusion!! I bore my partner silly but I think she enjoys how excited I get when I pick up a nice bit of schist....

New Zealand must have awesome geology, I would probably have a heap of rocks from there if I visited, as it is I have a tiny little piece of Australia (Freemantle) sitting on that windowsill I mentioned earlier!! !


(I also LOVE stone circles, there's quite a lot of them around here)

it is nice to know that i'm not the only one
with these qualities

i somehow frequent this site to ease my depression

don't want medicines.. don't want md's... tsk

Mica schist - hard to resist.