You Might be an Aspie if...

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I was around at the time.

I can't give too many details for fear of banishment, myself.

There was an uprising. Something happened (that which cannot be spoken of) that caused pretty much every moderator at the time, and there were quite a few more then than now, to leave or else be banned.


YMBAAI you were in the middle of the maelstrom and had no clue what was going on.

...or if you ask why.

Why should it be capitalized?

Because it was named after a guy and names should be capitalized.
Because 'aspie' looks too much like 'aspic'.

I spent a long time believing the song 'Nights in white satin' was about knights wearing white satin, I had never seen it written only heard it.

If you search through your favorites list and all 100 of the sites are journal articles on numerous rare topics that you might want to point out to people in future conversations

My most remarkable conversations with my father was just like that... we could talk for days in this way...

If you have a copy of every Microsoft OS, since msdos in some special case.

If you had though away your 5 1/4 MSDOS disks only this year (but after a complete DVD backup) - fungus problem

(if you do the above things even if you are philosopher or work with chemistry)

If at eleven yo you have made a catalog of every game in the video game store, sorted it by code bar number, and starter to buy it in exactly that order.

If your science teachers were afraid of your class because of you, and were all the time awaiting for your approval in every sentence they made

If you own too many video games to count.

yeah I have too many to count.

If you had corresponded with numerous ceo's and university presidents by the time you were 12 - and your parents couldn't even name one of them

If you write letters to companies asking for some product that they no long produce (for 20 years or so), because you need to replace a broken one. "I just need one of that, don't you have one around there, forgotten in some place?"

Yep. Me, too. I thought they had banners of white satin on upright lances and that they were never reaching the end of some campaign.

You might be an Aspie if you believe some movie like "The Andromeda Strain" or "The Hunt For Red October" is based on true events. Like I did.

I also believed that was true until I was about halfway through the book. Something tipped me off enough that I decided to search and see if it was fiction

How about if they are all from the same series, and on top of that you are well known in that series fanbase...

...if you read all 94 pages of this thread.

I also agree that Aspie should be capitalized because it's a shortened form of Asperger's, which is capitalized. It's also a shortened form of a name (think of it like a nickname) and names are always capitalized.

YMBAAI you find it amusing that anyone might NOT read all pages of this thread before posting.

And I feel that "aspie" is struggling to be a "word", rather than a "proper name". Especially so that it can be properly paired up with "autie".

For example, the word "hoover", which is not even abbreviated:

The English language acquires words from whatever source it likes... and once they are in use as part of the language, their origin becomes academic. Proper names, abbreviations, acronyms, foreign words... they all get into the dictionary, as plain words, if they are well enough used.