You Might be an Aspie if...

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If you are given a test and instructed to fill in the circles that signify the correct answers and you do what you're instructed to do but make notations in whatever space you can find, telling them "I know the answer you want me to choose, but that is not to say it is actually the correct answer, because under certain situations another choice would be correct" or you might scribble in the margins "This test is not worded correctly" or "this test has a lot of conflict going on in it's pronoun usage". Then, the person who gets to correct your test, who is invariably an NT, thinks you're some kind of a nut-case and refers you to her superior, who refers you to his superior, and so on and so forth. I think you could pretty much be convinced that you are an Aspie if you do that kind of thing, especially if you know you shouldn't do it and do it anyway because there is a principle involved.

YMBAAI... in the middle of making love to your wife, you've thought about going to the bookstore. (True story.)

...if when you point at something imparticular while driving, your car tends to go towards whatever you are looking at...

.....you can very easily believe it's not butter.

...if you make a shopping list so you don't forget what you need to get at the store, then forget the list at home because you were thinking about what you need to get at the store.

...if it took you 2 years to figure out the next door neighbor's name, even though she told you numerous times.

...if your main sentence during an argument/debate/fight (whatever you want to call it) is "I just don't understand" or "it just doesn't make sense to me".

...if someone has to prompt you to ask how they are doing.

...if you get annoyed that people tell you how they are doing because you are too busy thinking to take the time to listen.

...if you stumble upon a conversation about actors/actresses and have absolutely no clue who anyone is talking about.

...if you can remember every word to a song, but cannot remember the title or who sings it.

...if you would rather walk a mile from an open parking lot, than parallel park.

...if you are told to meet someone somewhere at a certain time, and make them check their watch to make sure it says the same thing yours does-just to make sure you aren't a minute late.

*if you've actually put off your other obsessions temporarily just for the sole purpose of thinking of as many "you might be an aspie" lines as you can.

*if you don't step on cracks because you see them as boundaries.

*if you won't sit in your neighbor's chair or have a small panic attack because your child did, all because it's not YOUR chair.

*if you need someone to say "come on in" every single time you go visit anyone in order to feel comfortable entering the house, but don't bother to invite people into your own.

*if you will rush quickly through a store or gas station just so you can use your bathroom at home rather than a public restroom.

*if you linger in aisles of the store and watch the line at the check out just to see if it's getting any shorter any time soon.

*if you see a check-out lane open up and direct everyone behind you to it, just so people aren't standing so close to you.

*if you get very frustrated when you cannot find a specific item you went to the store for, and other brands just will not do.

*if you cannot find your money and go to your car searching when you are paying for something, then realize it was in your hand the whole time.

*if you are constantly adjusting your thermostat attempting to get that exact temperature to be comfortable, but never can achieve it

*if you can read over something 20 times and still say by the end of it "I don't get it-what am I looking at?" (when it's something you aren't interested in)

*if when reading something you are not interested in, you look for grammatical errors instead, and point them out to people.

*if people always want you to proofread their stuff.

*if helping someone with a report or doing a group project, you tend to correct their spelling errors, wording errors, and formats automatically for them.

*if someone tries to give you an example and starts with "let's say you did this...." and you respond "but I would never do that-there is no point in it."

You might be an aspie if you notice at the café that there is a small chromosome-like figure on a backseat of a chair, but you don't remember the colour of the building, because you haven't paid any attention to it. (This has happened to me. )

I worked as a proofreader for my local newspaper for two years. To this day, I still look for mistakes and correct them.

You might be an aspie if you pick apart and criticize everything the tv says.

You might be an Aspie if ...

You can go to a social gathering, monitor four different conversions going on around you simultaneously, and think all of them are boring.

You have given up on trying to start a conversation because you know that nobody is going to be interested in anything that you want to talk about.

You leave social gatherings as soon as you think that it would be polite to do so and people think it was rude anyway.

You might be an aspie if.......

you watch Friends to learn the words actors use than to learn their hairstyle, fashion, etc.,

you like to watch dooms day movies more than love movies

you prefer opposite sex admire your intelligence or niceness more than your looks

you like to spend more time studying your car inside out than being inside it and driving it out

you are lost in your own world in a mall

You might be an aspie if you hate change.

You might be an aspie if you spend 45 minutes plus in preparation for the simple task of buying a bag of chips with scavenged coin. Reciting your statement to the clerk, counting and recounting numerous times. Even more recounting. Positioning yourself in the back of the line in order to be as little a bother to the cashier as possible.



I'm really messed up ain't I XD.

You might be an Aspie if you're either larger or thinner than the rest of your imediate family.