You Might be an Aspie if...

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You might be an aspie if..

used to be a huge fan of anime, knew what seiyuu (brownie points if you know what a seiyuu is!) voiced what character, what songs were from what show (including words) and who sang them.. and after not being a fan of it for the last 5 years.. am finally starting to forget that knowledge.

you remember stuff from World of Warcraft, even though you haven't played for almost a year, better than your friends who still play.

(in response to the person on the first page who said "know the specs of your computer" ;p) if you think it's weirder for people to not know the specs of their computer. What is less weird is not knowing the specs of the last 10 years worth of computers, like I do.

has always been the "smart guy" in class even if I didn't have the grades to show for it.

you refer yourself as a "sponge/king for useless information."

Some of these might have been said already or maybe not quite on the mark.. I'll admit it; I didn't read all 105 pages before I posted.
I'm also new here.. I only recently even heard about AS but the moment someone told me "you might have autism or aspergers" (that wasn't a good night) something clicked in me and made me want to look at what AS was specifically. I've never read something that so succinctly summed up my idiosyncrasies.

Of course, part of that is because the vast majority of players, in my experience, pay absolutely no attention to the backstory. As an example, most players (from either faction) behave as if the Horde were supposed to be evil. THEY'RE NOT EVIL. The Horde just believe that the Alliance is too weak, fractious, and forgetful to stand against the inevitable return of the Burning Legion. The orcs, after all, know what the Legion is like - they haven't been free that long; some still live who remember what it was to be in thrall to the demons.

The orcs were rejected by the Alliance because they once "associated" with the Legion (that this was against their will seemed not to matter, at least to Admiral Proudmoore - his daughter Jaina had other ideas). The tauren have been fighting with the centaurs over grazing lands for generations, and since the Cenarion Circle has such an in with the night elves, the tauren had little choice but to go with the Horde. The civilized trolls have broken away from the unpleasant habits of their cousins in the southern islands, but face the same unreasoning prejudice as the orcs. The blood elves, recently returned to Azeroth, are trying to control their hunger for magic, but face the same attitude from the night elves as the orcs get from the humans.

Only the Forsaken can be thought of as "evil", and in their own eyes, they're actually trying to be benefactors. They believe that being undead is so wonderful, they want to extend its benefits to everyone else in the world - whether everyone else in the world wants those benefits or not.

Sadly, most of the Horde players are kids who are still young and inexperienced enough to think that evil is kewl, and an excuse for doing whatever they want whenever they want, so the attitudes will probably remain unchanged unless Blizzard deliberately skews in-game interactions...

Wow, this is awesome! I only get to 2^12



YMBAAI
... you can read a binary clock with ease, but are still unable to read an analogue one.
... you got obsessed wiith the English language to a point of having problems with your native one.
... you were calmer during an air raid than during a presentation to the class
... your teacher can't understand your regular expressions
... you construct an artificial language.
... you realize that everyone pronounces words in it wrong despite an obvious spelling and thus create a better orthography (if you are a native speaker of English and want to help me, contact me)
... your 'friends' are impressed by the fact that you know all the lyrics to the songs you listen to.
... including the ones in languages you do not speak (including Norwegian, French and the language of Tokelau)
... your 'friends' only care about you if they want something done by you
... you HATE textspeak but have to remind yourself not to use ccTLDs when refering to countries. (.de for Germany, .fr for France, .at for Austria, .hr for Croatia and so on)
... you can have days full of fun with only a character map application and Unicode fonts
... you refuse to watch TV because if it is analogue, the channels look wrong and if it is digital, you see the static before the set top box is switched on
... you have to use a specific text editor when programming or writing
... your inability to use a real word processor (they are so horribly slow!) made your teacher allow to hand in the answers to tasks as txt.
... you are not particularly phased about references to violence otr drugs in rap songs, but you are peeved about YTCracker's "Let's phase it, I'm visually basic" and "Browsing the Internet on Firefox 10" because VB is a horrible program and firefox is slow!


...and you hate the movie when they try to teach it emotions.

... you forgot your calculator for an exam did the calculations by hand and were not noticably worse or slower than others.
... you can list almost all of the 192 countries of the world in ten minutes and realize that you actually wrote "democratic republic of the congo", "saint kitts and nevis", "saint vincent and the grenadines", "united arab emirates" and "kyrgyzstan" but forgot Germany.


Lynx exists and I doubt FF could work with only 64 MB of RAM. It does NOT with 36MB and Linux

... you spent an entire day in college being ignored by everyone, go to IRC where you are also not able to fit in, then post in the games section of WP (and other fora) just to have someone react to your posting.



Oh god, so me! I went to bed at like 2 am this night and had an exam at 8 am.

..."I don't learn for exams, it's more exciting that way" makes sense to you
...you have more Linux penguin plushies than acquaintances
...you sleep under a 1 meter tall plush linux penguin, you nameed Knoppix.
...you think X-SAMPA was a far better invention than sliced bread
...you occasionally attempt to transform words you hear into X-SAMPA
...your SO, who lives in Israel is impressed that you attempted to learn the language before visiting him
...you are POed that no one seems to be able to pronounce your first name correctly, thus you go online with a nickname from yout special interest... and no one can pronounce that correctly either.
...you learnt a constructed language for fun and plan on learning a 2nd one fo the same reason

You might be a visually impaired aspie if you finished maths at school with acceptable grades and only later realized that the things which are written onto the blackboard could be read by everyone else while you just assumed it was something idiosyncratic, which the teachers did.

Myself and Linus Torvalds were members of the same computer club back in the 80's.

Here's the member list 1983. I am member # 90 and Linus is member # 13.

check.
check. Some words that overlap/are identical even come out in the King's English pronunciation.
Nor anyone else, still you use it everywhere.
with a regular logical grammar.
They are often amazed by the meaning of the songs the liked.
I absolutely NEED emacs with my own configuration files.
Yes, been there, got the t-shirt, still visiting from time to time.
My typical go-to-sleep time is between 01:00 and 02:00 CET.
:lol:
:D Makes perfect sense.

@OddFinn: AWESOME!

I forgot one:

YMBAAI
... you actually like exams since the class is so quiet

I did that for the first half of Eddie Murphy's "the Nutty Professor"...and could no longer fake it after that.

I even did it for several TV shows I gave a chance to....I'm a smart man now

..it took you about an hour to memorize all the arteries in the upper limb, but you forgot why you went into the kitchen..

Edit: Realized that 'remember' isn't equal to 'memorize' and had to edit the post.

You either start a finish saying something metiphorical by saying something that letting the person know that you are either about to or just have used a metaphore.

... your earliest memory is set in a crib.

An aspie wannabe topic

You do echolalia with yourself.

-You took the Aspie Quiz and worry about the answers you got wrong.

...If you consider a lack of response to your ideas a greater insult than a logically debated attack on them and don't understand why everyone else thinks it works the other way around.

Definitely agreeing with that one. I can't say how many times I've spent hours wondering why no one would speak after I had spoken.

No argument on that one.

Totally true! I still don't understand.