You Might be an Aspie if...

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when I ask my aspie son what the girls name is that just waved at him and he says that she sits in the desk in front of him in school. He tells me he doesn't remember her name (she has been sitting in front of him for 3 months) BUT he can describe evrything that she wore to school 3 days ago.

Those are things that really happened to me, and make me believe I have AS.

You might be an aspie if...

- Your childhood friends were all jealous of what you could build with their own Legos
- You have a hard time remembering what someone told you 2 seconds ago, yet if you do remember it you might recall it 2 years later.
- Althought you love your two new cats to an almost anormal level, you cant decide what you should name them and they go without a name for a year or so.
- When you play a quiz at home with your relatives, your father, his girlfriend, her daughter and your grandmother all play agaisnt you and only you to make things fair. Still, you beat them hands down.
- You can mentally divide any number from 1 to 1,000,000 by 7 and give more decimals than a calculator.
- Whenever you learn about a new so-called genius, your first reaction is to consider he might just be a poseur.
- When you say you love a musical band, chances are you know every lyrics of every of their records and the birthdate of every member.
- Your favorite breakfast is 2 coffees and 4 cigarettes.
- You eat more often over the kitchen sink than on your table.
- You cant get any girl, but you actually know why.
- When your friends announce you your going to be the next game master at AD&D, you intensively make researches about the feudal system, the physical properties of steel and the amount of calories in a piece of bread in order to make the game more realistic.
- All you relatives have a good laugh when you try to put peanut butter on your toasts.
- In your closet, you have 4 pair of blue jeans and 8 black t-shirts, which all look the same.
- For some reason, you feel exhausted when you have a new decoration in your appartment.

And many, many other things...

...you rebuild your lego ships so that they look more realistic in terms of scale, complement, cargo, cannons etc.

...the crew has to be an even number, otherwise you would have to rebuild the ship from scratch. And have named the crew, given them histories and keep them apart from the crew members they don't like, keeping the aspie crew member in the lifeboat, working out the amount of time he has to get to it from each part of the ship, just in case it sinks.

...you can remember the exact date and time you stuck your hand into a yarn twister at work, cutting the tip of your finger off, the entire car journey, having a detailed conversation about the suburbs of Dublin with the Irish nurse, despite being in shock. Also more curious as to how they intended sticking said fingertip back on, rather than moaning about how the blood has gone all over your favourite t-shirt. Still get told now that some common sense should have stopped the hand from entering the machine.

It was at 8.15pm, Wednesday June 15th 2005.

...you read the entire thread, then realise there are things in your own head that need to go on.

...you can't remember something you were meant to have done 5 minutes previous, but you know the entire history of the JSA, JLA, SSV, and all other DC comic teams from before 1965.

...you have started telling the people who say you are too quiet that they will have to listen harder, as its your volume and not going to change it for anyone.

...you avoid the bloke you work with, who is going through a separation, because you either don't know what to say, or know full well that you will say something, and it will be wrong.

...you take eight times longer to say something because you are thinking what comes next, drift off, changing the song in your head, get nervous because eye contact is required, people are looking, scratching your head or having a heated arguement with a moth thats decided to fly near you. Bonus points if all those things happen when trying to say one sentence.

...you finish work at 1 in the morning, get home and spend the next 2 hours on WP, then watch Alien then Smackdown.

...you really have to stop because you're typing in the dark, and your eyes can't focus anymore.

Sounds like me at 12.
Welcome to WrongPlanet!

YES! Except, I cut my own hair because I really don't want anyone else touching my head while having an awkward conversation.

You know all of the biographical information about your favorite athletes. (In my case, Roger Bannister. He was born in Harrow, England on March 23, 1929.)

...if you go to the prison where your dad works and don't know why the inmates keep staring at you.

...if you scream at the top your lungs "WE"RE LOST MOMMY!" at any construction-caused detour she turns on

...if you have nightmares of driving

...if you don't have any reason to drive or own a car, but you desire to building the roads for the people who do.

...if you have no interest in basketball and knew every line in "Space Jam"

...if you don't know the rules of hockey, yet The Mighty Ducks movie inspired you to tears

...if you take the Beatles as the undeniable GOSPEL

...if God is a dimension in String Theory

...if you anticipated Halo 3 just like everyone anticipated Harry Potter, to finish the plot.

...if you demand full skematics for every weapon, armor, enemy, and galaxy-destroying technology for the Halo universe to validate your theories.

...if you stare at anything and think of anything on this post

...if you continue to type in this post

...if the school was paying you to teach math (I tutored, actually)

...if you became a busboy and analyzed the supply/demand of each table to determine which one gets cleaned first

...if you drew a ten-story toilet to determine if human remains burst into flames before reaching the 200 gallon behemoth of a toilet

...if you think Noah is an aspie fairy tale because of his mathematical detail, collecting every animal in uber-detail, and despite constant bullying knowing one day those NTs will drown in denial.

...if you found connections between Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture and the set of Stargate Atlantis, thereby desperately wanting the schematics that the artist and producers are too lazy to do. You'll do it for free, though

...if you have a hard time understanding reality tv

...if sudoku is a sport

...if lightsaber battles is a sport

...if your childhood friends lived in the Hundred Acre Wood

...if the Klingon Language Institute sent you an invitation letter

...if your high school love letter became a sociological manifesto

...if you compared social interactions to the Matrix (AND didn't even see the whole movie )

...if you're a teenager that listens to Bill O'Riley (or if i feel left, there's NPR) instead of any pop.

...if GameStop, the Sharper Image (gadgets) and Hot Topic (goth) are still the only stores you go to in the mall

...if MySpace is the apocolypse and Wrong Planet is the rapture

...if victory only came with experience points, some coins and items

...if you ask a girl in because there is nothing to do outside

...if an episode of Rescue 911 gave you the panic to call 911

...if you drilled state troopers on license plate numbers

...if an episode of yu-gi-oh changed your life

...if Wikipedia is post-secondary education

...if you started throwing things when Tech TV got bought out and started appealing to wiggers

...if you knew what Tech TV was

...if you still have your Game Boy, fully charged

...if you had a meltdown when your favorite videogame got stolen, even though it was only worth10 dollars

...if you just started WP and reading over three years of this material

...if you work in a restaurant and decided to say that one kid looked like the kid in The Omen, right in front of the kid's dad, utterly shocked you didn't get fired.

Nice post matrix!

Among my favorites :

...if God is a dimension in String Theory
...if your high school love letter became a sociological manifesto
...if you compared social interactions to the Matrix
...if Wikipedia is post-secondary education
...if you just started WP and reading over three years of this material

If you remember and liked it better when it was ZDtv. (As in Ziff-Davis)

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No clue, my grandma had basic cable whenever I went to her house, i don't remember ZD perhaps cause it was on digital.

My favorite videogame was Golden Sun: The Lost Age, some of the best summons, graphics, and music integration in the GBA. Everything, except maybe some puzzles, kicked arse. It got stolen in my not so fresh-man year.

The matrix one was the catalyst of all my HS popularity, more than I needed at that time.

The yu-gi-oh one was adapted when foxworthy said
"If an episode of 'Walker Texas Ranger' changed your life..."

God being a dimention is something i took a shining to when I read a bit of "The Knowledge of the Holy" by Tozer with, of course, "The Elegant Universe" by Greene. I think I'll read those again.

And for some reason I, so far, haven't gotten fired at Cracker Barrel.

And the inmates were female. Still awkward though. My dad is just a techie for the systems.

Well of course, there is actually a reason to pay attention to what she wore to school - it gives him something interesting to look at all day. Why would he need to know her name - he can just tap her on the shoulder with a pencil if he needs to speak to her.

I used to be terrible with names, but I've gotten alot better since i started teaching. however, ask me to remember the same kids name the next day when they're wearing a different shirt and chances are that i'll no clue - even if i can still name all 25 kids in the class and picture the seating chart in my head.

If you tell your bf's dad that your period came early (and that's not the most personal thing you've ever said to him)

If you go ask a doctor's friend what could cause your son's gf's period to come early

Your avatar! I recognise it, its caffeine! Hehe!

I have these ones too!

You impress me... are you a chemist? Even myself could not recognize this molecule ; I chose it on purpose knowing it was the molecule of caffeine (something everflowing in my veins), but I still would have a hard time recognizing it or giving the exact chemical formula. I'm also glad we share some aspie traits.

YMBAAI you consider the way news stories are being written in and of itself a disaster.