Your child has Aspergers if...

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Your child may have Aspergers if his emotions are very sporadic.

...if your child's idea of playing with the neighbor kids is following them around and asking why they are doing what they are doing. (that's my son! lol)

...if the neighbor sends the kiddo home after 15 minutes because she can no longer answer "why", or if when she tells him to be quiet, he starts analyzing exactly why she wants him to be quiet and asking about all of the possibilities.

...if they NEVER respond to "because I told you to", simply because it isn't a good enough reason for anything

...if you go to a restaurant and they insist to read every single coaster and menu before they will take their food from the waiter/waitress.

...if they panic when somebody nearby is upset, but laugh hysterically if there is a good reason to be upset. (lol, not all Aspies are like this, but my son is)

...if they are told to think of as many words as they can that start with the letter "S", and after 45 minutes of working on the project they are still lost in thought with nothing written down because it was not told to do so.

...if at 6 years old they are already griping about people asking them what to eat, because "they should KNOW by now that I only eat chicken nuggets".

I wouldn't be suprised if my mother wrote that.

Describes my childhood oddities perfectly.

I choked on my supper reading this, I started laughing so hard! My son does these things, too. I thought he was the only one! We call him Nathaniel P.I., because he interrogates everyone about everything endlessly.

lol, that is my son too. A few have called him "Captain Obvious", because a lot of his questions are things like "that pen you are using is blue right? Hey... HEY! Is that a blue pen you are using?" I just giggle when he does it, and answer yes over and over usually, lol.

Another thing my son and I BOTH have done (me as a child of course), is when people tell us "let's play the quiet game..." and they explain the rules. We both have/had a tendency to start up with "I'm doing really well being quiet aren't I? I've been quiet for a long time, haven't I? This is the quietest I've ever been, for the LONGEST I've ever been quiet in my entire life! I'm being so quiet I've forgotten what sounds sound like! ...hey, what's for dinner? I've been quiet so long I'm getting hungry..."

If she knows every breed of cat and every classification within a breed. (If she knows what is a Seal Point Siamese, a Blue Point, a Chocolate, a Lynx point, a Snowshoe, etc.)

If she knows every Olympic medalist from the beginning of the Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 to the present, and where every Olympic Games has been held since then.

As a kid, whenever someone said there was a fork in the road, I envisioned a dining utinsel in the road. On a camping trip one time, I needed to use the restroom, so I asked my mom where the restrooms were. She said "go down to the fork in the road, and go left and the restrooms are in the house right in front of you"

Well, I set off down the road and went down a good ways, and then wandered around for the next 15 minutes or so looking for the kitchen fork in the road. I sifted through the gravel in the road with my feet, but couldn't find a fork. Since I couldn't find the bathroom, because I couldn't find the fork, I just unzipped and peed right there in the middle of the road!

Your child may have Aspergers if his literacy obsessions are the works of Stephen King, a possible Aspie.

Her ambition is to be a "crazy cat lady."

WOW! Te one fiction book I have, that doesn't have another reason, is FIRESTARTER by Stephen King!

Your child may be an Aspie if he does nothing more than a system he has created.

You know your child is an aspie if, he not only knows all the names of the dinosaurs, but will pretend sometimes that he doesn't just so he can repeat over and over again, "And what's this one called, Mommy?"

You know your child is an aspie if, at 4 yrs old, you hear him whispering the titles of your own books to himself under his breath.

I'm a big fan of King what is caused not only by his writer talent but also by the fact that he has written so many books and there are particular patterns in those novels - I like dividing his books into groups - I mean, a group of books in which children and teenagers are the main characters, the second group which contains books where a motive of an illness appear (Green Mile with a man suffering from a bladder infection and a lady with a brain tumour, The Dead Zone whose main character was in coma for several years, Misery - a guy with broken, crushed legs), mainstream books that don't have anything (or at least very little) common with horror and paranormal issues and some other categories. What is more, practically all his books are somehow connected, creating something like a system whose particular parts are King's books - reading his novels I make that system complete, I remove holes in it. I hope you understand what I'm talking about.

Btw, I don't find Firestarter so good as many other novels of this author. Several years ago I had an obsession concerning The Green Mile instead Stephen King doesn't have AS, he seems too normal but he may have only some traits but Lovecraft (number two on my list of favourite authors after King) had it almost for sure - if it wasn't SPD, of course.

-If your child doesn't play with her blocks until they are sorted by color, then by shape and lined in a straight row.
-If your child screams that the rain "hurts" his skin.
-If the car manuals available at dealerships are his favorite books (especially the engine specs)
-If your old chemistry textbook is his other favorite book
-If he (and she) can recite the entire play "Rent" (at 4 years old) and sing all the songs.
-If he can sing all the songs on PERFECT PITCH

My kids are nuts!! !

lol! The play I recited and sang to at 4 was "Oklahoma".

Your child may have Aspergers if he does not feel the effect of hot sauce in his Asian food.