You Might be an Aspie if...

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YMBAAI ...some guy at work approaches you with his phone out and says "hey, look at this picture, I found this in the staircase...". You see the picture, of something that looks like a moth, and says "Is that a moth? Interesting color. Where did you see this again? I saw you approach from the general direction of the staircase."

"I saw it about 2/3 down the staircase"

"So, since we're in the middle floor, you saw it on the landing on the halfway point downwards from this floor and the ground floor?" (which isn't really a ground floor, since it's set in a slope, making both the alleged ground floor and the alleged first floor display characteristics of both a first floor and the ground floor.)

"Yes"

"Cool" Starts walking towards the stairs. "Was it down here?"

"Yes"

While you have located the bright green moth beautifully displayed against the white plaster you feel a presence behind you.

"I'll see if I can't get another picture of it."

"The light here is kinda yellow and not really able to make sure you get a good, true representative picture. I have a flashlight upstairs. I could get it, if you want?"

"Nah, my phone has a light too, I'll use that"

"OK." You want to know what kid of moth it was, so you go upstairs and start googling. While you're googling but haven't really come to a conclusion yet, he has obviously finished taking the picture, because he is emerging from the stairs and starts heading towards his office.

"I wonder what kind of moth that is." you say.

"I'll see if I can't find it in this book about moths I got about a year ago" he says as he disappears out of sight.

Your googling makes it very likely it was a "badwing", so named because the rear set of wings are markedly shorter than the front set, making it notoriously difficult pinning it down nice and flat in a display case. You see the guy (which you have known for a year, incidentally) walk past you a couple of times later in the day, and consider telling him, but doesn't really know how to.

The next day as you come to work for the day shift, your co-worker points out this HUGE brown moth which had been sitting on the wall in front of him all night. This prompts you into telling about this other guy and the green moth. In great detail. Co-worker leaves. You see the other guy a time or two. You don't tell him about what you found out about the moth. He doesn't say if he looked the moth up or not. You don't care.

11 hours or so after you left work you think the guy might actually have been trying to flirt with you. It might also have worked.


If this has happened to you, you might be an Aspie...

YMBAAI

...After buying a used car and discovering that one of the door locks doesn't respond to the central locking thingie you'd rather just leave it like it is than going back to the car dealer and ask them to fix it.

Bonus points if you only considered going back to the dealer because someone else suggested it...

...if you see small children reading what is literally
a magazine of eroticism, and tell the parents.

If you have just got home from work on a Saturday and you have got lots of relatives round today, but you creep in the house and sneak into your bedroom without anyone seeing you, because you find it so embarrassing to come upto them and say hello - even though they are the most familiar people you know.

Numbers don't really do anything for me. The thing what comforts me is a bottle of Coke. Well, it gives me company.

you might be an aspie if certain noises drive you nutty..

Yeh - only some noises worry me. I DON'T get annoyed or worried about noises like fireworks, carnivals, airoplanes, buses, lorries, clocks ticking at night, squeaking noises, hedge-trimmers, doorbells, door-knockers, birds, music, snoring, fans, washing-machines, farm animals. . . these noises don't bother me, funnily enough.

You may be Aspie if you get practically frightened by screaming toddlers in public.

...if you walk into a grocery store looking for a snack
and spend lots of time reading the label of what is in your snack.

That's not normal?

For me its if you:

Looking too deeply into something in which your not supposed to be.

Staring at flashing lights,strange drawings,any eye for detail is a no no,well actually any drawing or painting or any type of art is a no no unless you want to get diagnosed.

You might be an Aspie, if your make strange noises..

Lying is not to do with AS - but I can lie though - funnily enough.
I can think of a lie from the top of my head, and the lie will make sense and sound convincing.

Last edited by Joe90 on 27 Jul 2010, 9:06 am, edited 1 time in total.

Is that really an aspie trait, lying well?
I, for one, aren't comfortable with lying at all.
(But I'm not diagnosed)

No - this is where I'm confused. I've been diagnosed with AS - but I'm good at lying.
But this is all true what I've wrote here though. I wouldn't lie about things like that. I don't lie much - but I wouldn't consider myself as ''an extremely honest person''.

You know everything about socialness, you could write a real novel about a popular person with a big social life, you can write a 1000-page book about ''how to socialize'', - yet you don't know how to be social when in a social situation.

I know all the social rules - but I can't bring it on the surface when I'm actually with people.

This is me aswell! I get a good home in my head, then when it's all built it doesn't seem as good as when I first built it.