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...your nick name in high school was 'Spock.'

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This is my first post here. Have recently come to the conclusion that I have Aspergers and have got an appointment booked with my doctor to try to get a referral to a specialist and hopefully get a diagnosis. The diagnosis is necessary to get me some help though I know the hassle could be more trouble then its worth.
Anyway, having read 68 pages of this thread and laughed so hard I’m in pain I felt I had to post my own additions to the never ending list (not got the time right now to read the last few pages).
I have more things to add to the list, but many have already been covered by other people and I didn’t want to repeat exactly what someone else had already said.



 You know the account numbers of every member of staff you work with at a video store, along with all the numbers of your friends and family’s accounts.

 You go back to work at the same video store after more then 2 years doing something else and you still remember every single one of those numbers.

 Whenever you buy anything online you don’t need to look at your card number as you know it off by heart (no matter which one of your cards you choose to use).

 Even if it’s an inconvenience and you’re running late you’ll still hold a door open for a few people, but you’ll feel murder is justified if any one of those people doesn’t say thankyou.

 You’re 25 years old and not only are you still a virgin but you’ve never so much as held a girl’s hand, and the thought of holding a girl’s hand still fills you with anxiety/dread.

 You regularly say something that someone finds offensive when you were just trying to be nice.

 You have to rewrite a text message 8 times because what you want to say won’t fit into 160 characters without you shortening words and using txt speak (*shudders*).

 You can be talking to someone about the most random subject but you will always be able to interject with loads of random facts about that subject, and by doing so you freak out the person you were talking with.

 You get a new interest in something a friend has loved and followed thoroughly for a couple of years and within 3 days you not only know everything your friend knows about that subject but you are also able to tell them loads of stuff that they didn’t already know.

 Your friends ask you something instead of looking it up in a book or online because asking you is faster.

 You do loads of odd jobs and favours for other people, sometimes sacrificing things you really wanted to do, really going completely out of your way to get the job done, and even incurring some small costs to do these favours, yet you will never let the person pay you for your troubles.

 You lie awake at night and have the most amazing thoughts run through your head, yet when you try to write them down the words just won’t come out.

 You feel more comfortable and spend more time talking and playing with your cat then you do with every person that you know.

 Your first question when you get home after being out all day is not to ask how your parents are but how the cat is.

 You don’t get sad at funerals, you occasionally laugh (at an inappropriate moment), but mostly you just get really bored.

 You know the number plates of every car every single friend or member of your family has ever owned (since you’ve been alive).

 Your DVD collection is not organised according to the alphabet but is instead ordered by director, with your favourite film by each director starting each section through to your least favourite ending the section.

 No matter what situation arises in daily life you can always use a plot device from a film or a direct quote from a film to relate to the situation.

 You didn’t bother doing any work in school when you discovered early on that everyone was learning the 2x table when you already had the 13x table mastered.

 No matter what combinations of foods are on your plate, or how they’ve been cooked, you always eat certain foods first, and other ones last.

 You have more eye contact with your cat then you do with all the people in your life combined.

 You’re at a party, still in single figures (age wise), and you leave the group of people your own age to sit with the adults and join in with their conversations (much to their annoyance) because you feel more comfortable that way, and you can even relate to the older people better.

 You never call people back when you’ve said you will and you’re alright with this, but you get really annoyed when someone doesn’t call you back when they’ve said they would.

 Years after making a mistake, no matter how insignificant it seems to other people, you are still haunted by it and replay it over and over in your mind changing how everything went until you’re completely satisfied, until a little later on when you think about that mistake again for whatever reason and you go through the whole process again.

 You’ve had 4 times as many driving lessons as your friends needed to pass and you’re still making mistakes and being hard on yourself for every tiny little imperfection.

 You make a mistake in a driving lesson, immediately say out loud what it was and what you should have done instead, and your driving instructor looks at you in a puzzled way and asks you why you made the mistake in the first place if you knew it was a mistake AND you knew what you should have done instead, to which you have no answer. (sorry for the lack of punctuation in this one)

 You scare people you only meet very occasionally because 5 years ago they told you something fairly random that happened to them, 5 years later you bring that something up in conversation remembering what they told you perfectly and their jaw just drops.

 You were always in trouble for not doing homework and not paying attention in class yet you pretty much aced every test you were ever given in every subject, much to your teacher’s annoyance. (“If you actually put some effort into your studies then goodness knows what you could achieve”)

 You can’t tell that someone has a crush on you even though they go visible weak at the knees whenever you’re near, their voice goes funny, they can’t concentrate, and every time you look up at their face they seem to be smiling or blushing.

 You get the same haircut for 22 years in a row and when your usual hairdresser/barber can no longer visit you to do your hair you are terrified to find a new one. You eventually find a new place and pluck up the courage to go inside and then you almost have a heart attack when you’re asked how you want your hair done and you haven’t got a clue. You just about manage to mumble out a few words and explain things a little to the hairdresser, then take a big breath and do something completely out of character because you’re starting to panic. You ask them to give you something that they think looks alright and is low maintenance. You brace yourself and hope for the best, concentrating on your breathing and try to make a little small talk to calm yourself down. Finally, after what seems like an eternity, your hair is finished, and although it scared you half to death you really love your new haircut and walk out of the hairdressers with a huge buzz running through you and an insane grin on your face for the next 3 hours due to the fact you tried something different and you liked it. You think to yourself during those 3 hours that next time you’ll try something different again because you’re feeling daring and invincible.

 Next time you go back to the hairdressers you get them to do the exact same thing they did last time because your buzz from last time wore off the same day and now you’re back to your usual way of thinking again which means that any thought of changing your hair again scares the living daylights out of you.

 Your room looks like a bomb has hit it, and the only space on the floor is there so that you can walk to and from your bed, yet you know where everything is and you have to restrain yourself when your mum tells you the room needs tidying up.

 You go tenpin bowling every week for 14 years, finally manage to achieve one of your big ambitions and bowl a perfect game (even though you still can’t walk straight with a bowling ball in your hand), and then you criticize the achievement because 3 of the 12 strikes weren’t completely perfect, they were just good solid strikes.

 You went online to check your email just before you go to bed and then spend the next 4 hours looking at all sorts of random facts, endlessly linking to new pages on wikipedia and opening them in new windows, and only finally going to bed because your bladder is about to burst and you realise that the sun is due to come up in less than an hour.

 Your mum wants to look at a particular item in a catalogue and she asks you what page it’s on instead of looking it up in the index at the back.

 You’ve seen 63 Jackie Chan films, can name them all, and can also name every single other film he has ever made even though you haven’t seen it yet (I’m not bothering with some of them as I know they are no good, that’s why I’m currently only on 63). You can also name his character name in every one of the films you have seen (though that isn’t difficult as most of the time he is called either dragon, or imaginatively enough he’s called Jackie!).

 You get the latest Final Fantasy game and complete every tiny little sub quest along with the main story whilst only ever stopping to use the toilet, sleep, eat (only after several times of being reminded you need to eat by your mum), or go to work to avoid being fired.

 You took the Aspergers Quotient test and scored 45, then took the Empathy Quotient test and scored 5, and it explained a lot about your life.

 The chair in your room hasn’t been seen for months because of the large pile of clothes on top of it

 You’re having a conversation with someone and you correct all their mistakes in grammar which annoys them, then you start correcting your own mistakes because you were passionate about something and talked at mach 5, at which point you totally lose the person you were talking to as well as losing your own trail of thought, driving both of you a little loopy in the process!

 You put your kickboxing uniform on and the length of both ends of your belt Have to be the same, even if it means retying it 20 times.

 You can’t do the top button up on any shirt because you feel you can’t breathe if it’s done up.

 You go to a nightclub and not only do you feel that everyone is looking at you but that they’re wanting to pounce on you and hurt you because they know exactly what you know, and that is that you just don’t fit in.

 Your brain feels like it will explode every time you eat a crunchy cereal and someone talks to you at the same time, the noise really grates you.

 The sound of polystyrene sends shivers through your entire body (and not the good shivers either), and if heard for more then 2 seconds makes you fall to the floor and somehow end up in the foetal position!

 You don’t bother to shower or get out of your pyjamas if you’re not going out somewhere that day. When you do go out somewhere you absolutely have to shower before you go out because for some reason it’s alright to smell at home but it is absolutely not alright to go out smelling bad (well, I do anyway).

 You got rid of the clock in your room when you were a kid because the sound of the second hand drove you nuts and stopped you from sleeping.

 The more you stare at a small word used all the time in everyday conversation the more that word seems weird!

 You’re sitting watching something boring with your family and you suddenly laugh out loud because you were running something through your head, causing the rest of your family to give you weird looks and you to tell them it was nothing instead of explaining what it actually was (mostly because they wouldn’t understand if you did explain it to them).

 You went to watch the movie Charlie’s Angels at the cinema 16 times (even though it was crap) because you just got a real buzz from watching it at a time when everything else in your life was making you feel down.

 You haven’t put a comb through your hair since you were 7 years old, and even then you only did it because your parents pretty much made you.

 Your handwriting is so bad that even you have trouble reading it sometimes.

 You never answer your mobile because it’s for your convenience and nobody else’s.

Just based on this list do you think it’s likely I have AS? The reason I ask is because I don’t want to go to the doctors and sound like a fool. Replies appreciated. Thanks

you have said ohh yes, thats me at least 3 to 4 times while reading englishwolf's post and have said it more then 100 times during the whole duration that this topic has been in general autism discussion

That's me and I'm coming up on 50!

--you get a reply like this and even though it has the eyes rolling attached you still can't tell the tone of the answer even after re-reading it 30 times!

Welcome




I totally related to about half your list (and added them to my list of things I relate to in this thread ). Either way, it can't hurt to get diagnosed, for your own peace of mind.

You prefer when food is bland.

You rearrange the crayola box before you can use the crayons
You can't ever figure out when a guy is flirting with you, making them mad and you just feel dumb.
When you are eating with other people, you eat as fast as you can so you don't have to hear them smack, or make weird noises with their silverware hitting the plate.
You hold your nose in public restrooms, to keep from losing it, even if it looks clean
you wear headphones a large part of the day

True. But the only person I really talk to at school just takes it with a smile on her face.


HATE chatspeak, leet or any other form of shortening words. Can't stand it. But am generally able to fit messages in unless I'm trying to explain too much. Then I just use two messages.


Very true. And then the werd looks. Then you get used as an encyclopedia.


This happened with Final Fantasy for me. Only it took a week rather than 3 days.


The internet was down at school today. I replaced it for my friend's psychology project. However it may not count as psychyatry is my obsession.


I think this relates to the fact that most people only do things to gain a favour from another for later. However, I know I see a favour as an act of generosity that claims nothing in return.


I know the first pert is true, though I've never tried writing the thoughts down. Thought of it once, but I knew that they wouldn't be so spectacular on paper.


Both my cats. I love them. They're my best friends.


I still don't bother. Anything I don't know I take in without trying.


Meat, then chips, then vegies. If it's salad, then meat, pineapple, carrot, lettuce, tomato. If it's roast then meat, sweet potato, potato (Sorry about the spelling error there), vegies.


Also true.


I hate this! I'll regret it SO much and it's just so tiny and insygnificant. At the same time I know that and it only gets me more annoyed.


True. Only I'm so quiet the teachers barely notice.


So true. Only not in the middle of the night.


Mostly for Kingdom Hearts, but also Final Fantasy.


School tie. Only I found a way that it always works without tying it 5 billon times over.


I would NEVER even THINK of going to a nightclub. I would curl in the fetal position in the corner of my room before that happened.


Even thinking about it is unbareable.


The word circular is the one that gets me...


Before the therapy, yeah. But it's improved with years of work.


I think it's most likely true.

Thanks for the welcome, and a big thankyou for the replies and feedback.

After reading through a few different threads and articles here over the last couple of days i've begun to feel more and more at home. It's great being able to relate to others experiences, and even though it has helped semi-confirm what i have suspected for a while now at least it shows i'm not the only one.
Anyway, here's another couple of additions to the list

--you get a reputation as a conversation killer because when you join in a group conversation you say something that stops everyone else in their tracks and pretty much dumbfounds them.

--you will only ever sit in one side of the car because having the seatbelt go across the other shoulder feels wrong and freaks you out a little.

--sometimes when you're really enjoying something you get people come up to you asking why you look so miserable when everyone else looks happy.

--You have a really crappy job but you stay for years because your boss always appreciates the effort you put in and will always make a point of saying thankyou, and meaning it.

--You end up in hospital with broken bones after getting tangled up by another part of your body and falling down as a result (twice)

--Even though you're fairly short and thin and anything but physically imposing you notice a huge percentage of people cross to the other side of the road when they see you coming, and you're positive that it's not paranoia!

That's all for now, more coming soon.
Oh, and once again, thanks to everyone for saying hi and replying to me.

Here we go again.

Happens on occasion.

True. I'm gonna have a hell of a time trying not to get distracted by thr seat belt when learning to drive.

I hate this. Honestly. The teacher will come up and say "Smile! You have to be happy!" when I'm already quite content, and I'll just give him/her a strange look.


You have good examples.
I can relate to a lot.

You are angry at people for posting content that actually qualifies in the public eye or clinical perspective of being aspergic. Like "You're a geek." This ain't supposed to be serious, even if the posts are true. Try modeling your posts in the style of "You might be a redneck if..."

YMBAAI Phantasmagoric's sentence "You are angry at people for posting content that actually qualifies in the public eye or clinical perspective of being aspergic" caused you to read it several times, fail to determine what grammatically was intended, and then just give up.

YMBAAI their next incomplete sentence (merely a clause) seemed tautologous. Also, to my knowledge, it has never appeared in this thread, so might actually be worth saying.

YMBAAI you're a(n old) geek.

YMBAAI you think that, as this thread is in "General Autism Discussion", rather than "Random Discussion", it is supposed to be serious, even if the posts are sometimes lighthearted.

YMBAAI you don't much care what a "redneck" might be.

YMBAAI you can't stop yourself posting a post like this post, even though you have the horrible feeling that you are being too mean. (Please accept my apologies in advance, Phantasmagoric.)