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You might be an Aspie if, when someone jokes about men taking blue pills, you ask what is in them.

I did this today....


I didn't know blue pills was euphemism for Viagra.

You might be an Aspie if you didn't know that making a V with your fingers is crude sexual gesture, not something innocent kids might do to annoy each other.

So true allf it was known as my sisters weird brother, se is 2 years below me also the computer thing omfg am my families comp technicians lol luckily thank god they don't ask me to take apart laptops tank the lord if he exists, the logical heart ad love bouncing off so devishly true I feel slightly computerised admiting it, does doctor who contious watching count.

IN the words of the iron giant YO ARE NOT A GUN

I did the EXACT Same thing with the pill colors... I don't even remember the context, I just remember trying to talk myself out of this corner when I realized that I had confused things and couldn't figure out what the different colors meant...

From the original list:

Well, we didn't have a computer at the time, but I was 3 years old, and it was a gumball machine. It wasn't so much that I took it apart that freaked my mother out (although she was freaked about that because my father had spent hours putting it together). . .it was that I put it back together correctly. I used a penny as a screwdriver (there was 1 large screw at the bottom that let the whole thing be disassembled); I still remember basically what it looked like inside. Now I'm the family computer tech, and I'm responsible for pretty much any kind of electronic device we get. I built all the computers in the house.



I wouldn't say severely, but yes. The phrase I use is, "Troll sense. . .tingling."



I stopped watching TV when I got a computer in 1996. Enough said.



Well, I suspected I had it for a long time, but it took talking with people who had it to know for sure. I had realized even before then that some of the things I was able to do with mechanical things and technology bordered on autistic, and that was without anyone telling me. I just had a weird ability to picture how things worked, or predict how they had to work.



Shower, no. It's the first thing I do when I wake up, because I cannot stand feeling grimy and dirty. I also need it to wake up. It's an integral part of my morning routine. Brush my teeth, yes.

You might be an aspie if. . .

You've eaten the same thing for breakfast for years, or even most of your life. . .that's me.



I used to be so bad about that. Not so much anymore. These days I sort of sit back and observe for a while before I start talking.



Absolutely.



Somewhere I have Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, and Vista. I think I trashed my 95 disc because 98 is effectively the same as 95 but more stable. No reason to keep both. I still don't get why more people don't call Windows ME "WindMill". I even made a joke when it came out (I was a Windows 2000 user at the time): "WindMill: Yesterday's computing technology, TODAY!" (much like windmills were yesterday's technology).



Understand, yes. Agree with fully, no. For example, I think the rule that requires you always place a period within the closing quotation marks if the quotation ends the sentence is bad, particularly if it's only a single word or very short phrase that is in quotes. It just looks wrong to end the sentence with the quotation mark in that way, even though it is technically correct. I don't really criticize others on their grammar, though; spelling / grammar flames are best avoided. But I still can't really carry on a meaningful verbal conversation where small talk is expected.



Said by my father. . .and it hurt a lot, coming from him.



I'll agree with that one. And sometimes I won't even bother with the argument because I know I'm right. A certain individual once asked me, "Why do you always have to be right?"



I have a bad habit for this. Have I mentioned I hate forums that flag your post as edited after the very first edit?



Or if you always run the defragmenter 3 or 4 times just to make sure it's as optimized as can be. I don't do it to every computer I sit down at, but I do it to a lot of them. And always if I'm working on the machine in any way. I have a batch file called defraglogoff.bat. As per the name, it defrags the computer, then logs off the current user (so when I'm in as administrator, I can leave it defragging and walk away). I'd say additional bonus points if you've ever cracked or force-reset an Administrator password just so you can defrag the machine. I have. It was a school computer, and it was SLOW. I basically said, "If I'm going to use this thing all semester, I'm defragging the darn thing!"



I get that. Many times.



That is TOTALLY me. I am incredibly good at organizing things, but messy as hell.

You might be an aspie if you have a strong urge to make a very long post about how all of these "might be an aspie" points apply to you.

You might be an aspie if you only go to the mall so you can watch people with less chance of anyone noticing you're staring.

You might be an aspie if you like window shopping better than actually buying things.

You might be an aspie if wherever you go in the car you can't concentrate on anything else because you're busy trying to see what ALL of the signs say and what all the different shops are for. Even at 25.

You might be an aspie if you never learned to drive because 1) you were scared 2) you knew you'd be the worst driver on the road and 3) you don't trust other drivers to do it properly.

EDIT: You might be an aspie if you for some reason copy and paste your posts like these into text documents in case you want to read them or share them somewhere else ever. And you don't know why.


All me.

You might be aspie if:
* You read all 97 pages of this thread in one sitting.
* Even though you don't really read those quote within a quote within a quote boxes on WP you really really like them.
* You really like words with lys (really, actually, etc)
*You like WP (and some other forums of subjects that interest you) better than Facebook.
*You are really bothered when your spellcheck underlines a word that is actually a real word.
*You have some tank of creature somethings that no one you know has. Moreover you can and will give a long discussion on them any time it comes up. I have mudskippers. (That is so a word darned spellcheck!)
*You are a middle aged female and you have not worn make up, a dress, heels, jewelry, etc for 40 years (It will happen!)
*The thought of a dress makes you kind of squirm.
*You can spend almost two weeks almost totally alone but don't feel lonely.
*You go out and socialize for the sake of your dog.
*You are middle aged and have used a computer so long that you were on the Internet before there was a graphical interface.
--You have used computers that are now in museums.
--You still miss your Amiga sometimes.
*You really love this thread. This thread should be a sticky!! Hey why is this thread not a sticky!


--des

I don't miss my Amiga - never had one. I do miss my old C-64 sometimes, though...

How can you miss something you never had? LOL! But missing your old C-64 is sort of the same kind of thing anyway.

You might be aspie if:
*You have seen the same movie so often you can recite all the words.
*You never get tired of reruns of Star Trek (in my case Next Gen.)
*The only fiction books you have read were Harry Potter (or Lord of the Ring trilogy, etc) and you have read them over and over so many times you forgot.
*You love Mythbusters.
*Everybody comes to your room at work for help with the computer.
*You can help keep an on topic thread going for 97 pages.

(BTW, I posted a post on the last subforum here about making this thread a sticky. If you agree please help and add a me too.)


--des

YMBAAI you don't see much need to sticky a thread that survives perfectly well all on it's own, and you can almost here it saying "No thank you. I am quite capable of staying alive without any of that nasty sticky stuff, thank you very much!"

You might be an Aspie if…

…you were told that the winter was just around the corner, and you ran around all the corners of the block to find it…

…due to ”Snow white” you thought dwarves were just fairy tale characters and when you finally saw one IRL, you nearly embarrassed your mother to tears running after him shouting ”Look! A dwarf!”, ecstatic by the magic feeling…

…you have problems making your cousin believe you didn’t steal her coin because even though you’re innocent you start laughing… and when she finds her coin you don’t get the weird look she gives you; you feel she owes you an apology, not a ”But why did you laugh, then?”

…you can have problems making people believe you’re telling the truth due to your lack of eye contact and the fact that you tend to squirm or even break out a sweat when talking to someone…

…you seek out the company of pets but never peers…

…you don’t see the point of wanting friends when your family fill the same function without the hassle…

…every school day you can’t wait for the bell to ring that final time so you can finally stop wasting time and get on with your real life (that is pets and current obsessions)…

…you’re trying to be polite to your neighbours, so when one of them opens the door, you mumble ”Hi” as you pass her, but reacts as she just stares at you. Then your neighbour turns up behind the strange woman who was visiting her…

…you have to make sure things are evenly lined up yet your room/house is a complete mess…

…if you either can’t focus at all due to the noise or don’t hear anything since you’re lost in hyperfocus…

…your microbiology teacher put you in charge of the class when she had to attend a meeting…

…someone calls you a walking encyclopedia…

…you’re unable to stay a whole minute in a clothes shop but you spend hours at the sci-fi book store or looking at video games…

They have all happened to me…

You might be AS if... you spent time programming your computer to teach it to give the conclusions to syllogisms instead of studying. Like I did. Only an Aspie would try to teach a computer logic.

You Might Be An Aspie If You prefer to watch Amazing Rust thermite videos instead of sex videos....

You spend 5 hours google searching everything related to Potassium Permanganate....

The only floorspace that is clear of clutter is the path from your bed to the bathroom and your computer....

...If you have ever narrated your face (re: eyes)

If you are interested in computers older than yourself.

If you are posting in this thread at 3:20 AM.

And another I saw lately: You spend 5 hours google searching everything related to Potassium Permanganate....

Here here...

You maybe aspie if you join a forum on linguistics and carry on a very long email dialogue with someone on linguistics and then the person asks you where you graduated in linguistics. You took one class in linguistics. (It happened!).

* There are very few computers older than I am.

--des