You know you're autistic when...

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When you hate everything Americans say, like calling shops "stores" even though they still say "shopping".
Actually it's probably more of a Brit thing to be annoyed about the American language, maybe we should start a separate thread about it.

^ When you're annoyed because you spell color and flavor with a "u" and pronounce it "zed", not "zee", but you use most of the same words Americans use, spell it "tires" and not "tyres", and neither Americans nor British people care at all. Of course, a I'm sure lot of NTs in Canada feel the same same way.

Somebody did
American (Mis)Use Of English - The Queen Responds!

You know you are autistic when you remember a thread from two years ago.
English And American Words

You have so many answers to so many posts and you want to answer them all but then you would seem too full of yourself and besides it would take too much time and no-one would probably read them anyway, so you go back to listening to the same song over and over. And you're a bit tired, from all of it, as if you actually did something in the real world.
On the positive side, at least you tired yourself out without exhausting much in the way of natural resources.

Feel free to...just run your mouth here on WP!

I do.

No one will object.

And some folks on WP even have this notion that they gain social status by how high their post count is. And some of them will even join in on those brain dead 'counting threads' ('count to infinity by three') on the game forum just to beef up their post count. So don't be ashamed to bolster your post count by...actually saying something now and again!

I have an obsession with The Golden Girls and just about every conversation I have with people I tend to talk about a scene from the show at least once.

Yeah. That IS autistic!

Nothing wrong with the show. It was a cute okay sitcom that I watched once or twice back in the Eighties when it was first run.

I am just curious about how you got so obsessed with it.

It ran before your time, and you're not in the demographic that identified with the characters that the show was aimed at.

You know you're autistic when...

... someone describes their personal problems, and all you can do is describe your own personal problems in response.

... anything worth mentioning is worth an hours-long monologue.

... three people die trying to rescue a cat from a burning building, and you feel sad only because the cat is now homeless.

... someone issues a "My Way or The Highway" ultimatum, and you take the "Highway" option without giving the "My Way" option a second thought.

... you finally get a date, and all you can talk about is your favorite manga.

... you buy things you don't need to impress friends you don't have.

... everything that Karl said or did in the movie "Slingblade" made perfect sense to you.

... you remember the names and the faces of everyone you know, but putting the correct name to each face is an impossible task.

... the demotion of Pluto to "Dwarf Planet" status still depresses you.

... the regeneration of the 12th Doctor into the 13th Doctor doesn't seem to bother you at all.

... you take great personal pride in having compiled 500 entries into one single "You May Be An Aspie If" list.

...you are willing to contribute to this thread, but the mere sight of the last page gives me social anxiety..

I don't really know how to explain it. My grandmothers always used to watch the show when they did reruns on Lifetime and when I would come visit them as a kid I watched it too and when I was about 14 I got hooked on the show myself.

There were so many things I liked about the show. It was very funny yet touchy and I was amazed at how these four old ladies handled sensitive subjects that were even more taboo in the 80's compared to today. The ladies were each very compassionate and understanding people and yeah they could be brutal to each other with their insults but it was always just good natured ribbing and if any of them ever took things too far they quickly regretted it and would make up for it.

I wish all people could be like that. In fact I find that most TV shows today are too mean spirited which is why I always prefer that show. It was genuinely funny but it had lot of heart.

Fnord,

I am way better at remembering names than I am at remembering faces. There have been times where I knew somebody but completely drew a blank. I was always afraid of saying the wrong name.

When you get to your subway stop with only 10 pages left of your book, so you stay on and calculate how far out and back it will take to read to the end because you just can't leave it unfinished like that.

When you are watching someone else move across a tile floor, scooting forward one tile at a time and think, 'I really want to do that too.'

Cool.

Maybe I should look for reruns of it on cable.

Every time I see "WH" on the newsfeed of my TV screen, I think they're talking about Wuthering Heights and not the White House.

It really is an amazing show. You'd be surprised at the subjects they covered for a sitcom that came out in the 1980's. Everything from gay rights to homelessness to age discrimination to suicide to AIDs. They even handled Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which at the time was a very unknown illness and Dorothy got to voice her anger at today's doctors because of the unfair way they treated her when she came to them for help.

This show was really ahead of it's time and I feel that many of the issues they dealt with are relevant even to today.

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