You Might be an Aspie if...

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...your mother, a career teacher with a string of degrees, would use you to check the spellings of words at age 12.

...you wrote computer programs in BASICA to help your mom create materials for her classes.

...your computer teacher in grade school (Read: teacher who got stuck with the job) resented you because your fellow students would ask you for help before her because they wanted the correct answer.

...your computer teacher in high school (who actually knew computers) talked with you for ten minutes on the first day, marked an A as your final grade, and told you to sit in the back of the class and goof off quietly.

...after the third day, he sees the wasted opportunity and gives you a programming language to learn.

you spend ages writing down the formula for msn conversations, and call it mns, as it wouldn't be formal otherwise.
N.B. I have done this.

http://xkcd.com/

You relate deeply to 99.8% of XKCD.

When you see a stray cat outside your door, you know what breed it is. There is a cat roaming around that I'm certain is a Russian Blue.

You are 43 years old, and you know all about Roger Bannister, but virtually nothing about today's celebrities.

you carry a dictionary, and several other knowledge based books in your backpack (I always have my backpack with me) with you always, just in case

You know you're an Aspie if you're the only one sat in the pub reading a book.

you know you're an aspie when....

...you have to go to a family wedding and later on that night they send out a small search party to find you because you've been hiding in the gardens.

...You get fired from your full time job for arguing over a temporary schedule change that caused a conflict with the part time job you liked better anyway...

...Your family thinks you're a loser because there are a hundred jobs listed in the paper, but you won't apply for any of them because they all involve being around people...

...Someone close to you desperately needs to vent their work related stress to you, but you don't hear a word because you can't stop thinking about how you're missing a new episode of LOST...

...You hear a voice you recognize on the answering machine and still won't pick up because the sound of the phone ringing interrupted your concentration on the webpage you were browsing and it ticked you off...

You know you're an aspie when you put bread in the toaster and 5 minutes later decide you don't want toast...

You know your a aspie when you have lots of sensory overload.