You Might be an Aspie if...

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YMBAAI your vocabulary at 2nd grade was high school level and your spelling won you little blue ribbons like a hog at a fair (even if you kept telling them you had found the spelling key in the margin of your work book and even SHOWED them where it was, but your teacher was so invested in your 'award' she just waved you away about it.

YMBAAI conversely, your mathmatics was barely rudimentary, if that.

LOL..I do do that.

YMBAAI if it took you some time before you found out what actually 'YMBAAI' meant.

You might be an aspie if you have 5 days left to finish your master's thesis and nevertheless feel you have plenty of time and spend way too much time on WP and Youtube.

(That's me!)

...you stayed up for the entire night (wearing the clothes from the previous day) reading all 99 pages of this thread, and didn't notice what time it was until you heard the percolater turn on fifty seven feet away through three walls.

...you know that the distance between last night's thread-reading position and the percolater is 57 ft (68 floor tiles) because an estimate just wasn't good enough, so you had to measure. (at 11:50 at night)

YMBAAI you hear about the death and the endless tribute videos of Michael Jackson and you say "wow, I never really paid any attention to him before but he seemed pretty good."

you might be an aspie if

* you thought that YMBAAI was just a member's profile name....
* you wondered why YMBAAI was so popular
* you actually tried to go looking for YMBAAI's posts.....
* when you read Raschu's post you had to google "YMBAAI" in order to find out what it did mean....and it still took you awhile (and you had to double check before you posted anything in case you didn't actually get it wrong....)

you might also be an aspie if you refuse to eat at Subway because they ask too many questions and there's too much choice.....(and if anyone suggests getting Subway for lunch you launch into "it's just's a glorified sandwich!" rant). You also hate that guy off the subway ads (even though you can never remember his name)

Last edited by Linder1980 on 27 Jun 2009, 4:28 am, edited 1 time in total.

you might have autistic tendancies if

* You have to read the instructions (and refer back to them a couple of times) when reheating a frozen meal in the microwave.

* When you were a teenager your parents were worried because you didn't talk on the phone enough

* The only bit in the Titantic movie you liked was when the ship turned vertical and you could see all the people falling off into the water (when you were dragged to see this movie by so-called "friends" you were also the only person in the theatre who laughed at this bit)

* You go out on a date and then spend the next week worrying that he WILL call

* If your boyfriend gets upset because you interrupt him during intercourse to ask how much longer he thinks it will take? Because stargate is on in ten minutes, so he better think about finishing up soon? You also can't understand why he would get offended over a simple question?

... if have still don't understand why people start to search for their money the supermarket when they have to pay and did not prepared and counted the exact small change to get the smallest amount of coins back.

... when you are surprised that the supermarket cashier does not understand why you gave £23,21 for a bill of £12.66, because you just hate to much copper in your wallet.

If you hate sentences that use words like that twice in a row.

example:

Fuzzy thinks that that should not be used twice in sequence.

...if you are memorizing your 100s division tables.

... and plan on extrapolating 1000s and 10,000s

Arrange posts so you are first YMBAAI on page 100, because it feels right and deeply satisfying.

But you'd never do the dumb "First!" comment on a blog.

...if you relate to d) all of the above

YMBAAI you actually have a laptop set up next to your bed (complete with headphones) and are watching DS9 on it while your husband is having intercourse with you. This actually happened, but now I live alone. Thank god.
YMBAAI two people in the same room as you are discussing cars and falling asleep behind the wheel, and one of them says, "Years ago, I woke up one night and was running through the mountains, and I hadn't a clue where I was." You then say, "I'm sure sleepwalking at those heights is incredibly dangerous." He then has to explain that 'running" is an expression for 'driving'.
In a UNIX class, you are discussing the finger command. You ask "Will it work if I finger someone else?" It takes you several seconds to figure out why the whole class is laughing at you.

The OP pretty much nails most of me...

I identify with so many of these posts.

YMBAAI...

Your teacher says, "You've done so well in my class, I'm not going to require you to take the final exam and you'll still get an 'A'," but you take the final anyway.

Another teacher announces to the class, "I was going to grade this exam on a curve, but someone got a 98. Isn't that right, [insert your name]?"

One of your co-workers uses a colloquialism and then asks, "Hmmm...I wonder where that came from?" so he can watch you run to the nearest computer, sign onto the Internet, and look it up.

You use words like "colloquialism."

Someone asks you, "What's the word?" and you pause while you try to think if there was some kind of word you were supposed to know or give in this situation. You end up responding with, "Sesquipedalian."

A co-worker tries to work out a map scale calculation on a white board, but you solve it mentally and tell him the answer before he finishes.

You calm yourself at work by analyzing data on a spreadsheet.

You're boss walks in and asks, "How're you doing?" Your response: "I'm trying to debug this VBA code because the database search function isn't working within the parameters I need."

Your boss concludes a meeting by asking, "Any questions?" and you think it's hilarious to respond with, "Yes. Why do dictionaries have page numbers?"

You desperately hope someone actually does know why dictionaries have page numbers because you've spent several hours trying to find out with no success.

Your favorite pastime as a 10-year-old was laying on the floor and reading encyclopedias for hours on end.

Rather than using a phone list, your co-workers ask you for someone's phone extension. Yet you still have difficulty remembering your mother's birthday.

You reluctantly go to your 8th grade graduation dance and use a martial arts move to escape from a sixtysomething-year-old teacher who tried to pull you into a dance circle.

Your only reason for attending your high school homecoming dance was to work the snack bar, which was a fundraiser for the science club.

Your favorite high school teacher was the one who let you pull your desk away from everyone else into the corner of the room without making a big deal of it. Your least-favorite teacher was the substitute teacher in that class who made you pull the desk back with the rest of the students.

A co-worker asks you, "So, what do you know?" and you immediately start mentally running through the different categories and sub-categories of knowledge in your brain until you become paralyzed with a data overload because the question wasn't specific enough.