You Might be an Aspie if...

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that explains so much. i didn't even know that other people think it works the other way round.
that solves an entire social mystery.

I only figured it out after being banned from a forum.

My posts where too many and too long, I used too many different and difficult words, concepts, etc. I used to many references to support my claims. I was too argumentative and much too insensitive to other peoples feelings. I ruined the (emo) "atmosphere" of the forum.

I didn't do anything wrong in the sense that I broke any explicit rule but it was just not working out.

Note that this was a forum for and by university students... average IQ >130.

There are 6 blue socks and 8 brown socks in a drawer. How many do you need to pull out, without looking, to be sure you have a pair?

You Might Be Aspie If your answer is:

2. Either reason.

or, 10, because my pants and shirt are blue.

or, Aren't they already rolled up in pairs and sorted by color?

or, Why are they in a drawer?

or, All my socks are white tube socks.

Oh, precision, I love it. In fact it took me ages to come to terms with the fact that it's ok and acceptable to ask other people stuff - sometimes they even like it and think it's normal. what the ??

YMBAA ... if you're feeling really proud that while you are reading thorugh all 110 pages of the topic so as to be thorough and not miss anything you've resisted replying to each and every quote that contains something you actually relate to

if Bones is your favourite TV show because she's the only person on TV you feel compatible with, except perhaps for the chinese chick in Donnie Darko

Last edited by mysassyself on 26 Aug 2009, 3:41 am, edited 1 time in total.

On here?? Hmm this is worrying in some ways - I usually edit myself in case this happens to me and I was really hoping that this would be the place to not have to do that. I guess I'm not that argumentative though, suffer more from left field logic. or should I say, others suffer more from (my) left field logic LOL

NO, some other forum (I wrote "a forum" not "this forum"). It was a university related forum run by and for students.

I know, I don't know if this forum is different -- haven't been here long enough -- but I think it's different here on this forum, atleast there is more understanding and tolerance.

No idea, I hope not.

:D Well put.

Why, thank you. Please excuse my somewhat irregular reply format. This is kind of fun

You know when you're an aspie when...

...You have to be bribed or physically hauled to stay in the mall because you hate it so much. You stay even though you want to bolt.

...You don't like peers your age because they seem immature and cruel.

...You feel like you came from outer space and you just can't seem to fit in no matter what age.

...You can listen to your favourite song over and over for an hour without getting bored because you like the lyrics and music so much.

...You can read so fast that everyone seems to go ridiculously slow. And when you say you've finished the book, the person you said that to looks at you as if you just finished in in seconds.

...You never could "ask questions", "infer", "read between the lines" or "get something out of" any book you read. You just read and that's it. You think the teachers are frustrated with you because you can't to either of those four things.

...You sometimes hate going to the bookstore because you can't find a single book you like.


That describes me in a roundabout way. The reason why I hate going to the bookstore a little is because I feel jealous that I haven't written any books yet.

you might be an aspie when your first grade teacher said "When the big hand is on the ..." you thought "is that the short fat one or the long skinny one".

If, in describing Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal, you think of something other than his rear end, which everyone seems preoccupied with. I personally think it's offensive, even if it is meant to be complementary. If they described the same part of a woman's anatomy, it would be considered offensive. Drop the double standards!

You want the latest issue of Vogue because your favorite tennis player, Roger Federer, is in this month's issue, but can't buy it because the perfume smell on the pages of the magazine makes you positively sick!

YMBAI: In the end you throw this concept out the window and comply a detailed reply with multiple quotes from various other replies (in order!) all in one post, and then throw it out the window reverting back to the original plan.

YMBAI: You could follow that

totally

YMBAA if you make an executive decision at page 30, when you realise that the posts are actually nearly five years old to skip to page 70 and take it from there. After someone replies to your post, you eventually realise that if you are replying to only current posts you are actually doing something along the lines of living in the present and possible communicating with people, so you decide to have two lots of thread open at once to serve both purposes simultaneously.


There's some great maths entries around page 75-80 btw
richie, you're a legend!

This one is for theLilAsimov, good luck with college!

You Might Be Aspie IF: Your favorite pen went through the washer and dryer, and now it doesn't click in and out right, and you took it apart and cleaned it really well, but it still doesn't work right, and fortunately you have an identical spare, because they were in the sale bin at Office Depot, and you were afraid something like this would happen, and you've checked 3 other Office Depots to see if they had any more, because what if it happens with the good one, and how complicated can a pen be! I'm supposed to be a freakin' mechanical genious!

YMBAAI:

You start writing your list of YMBAAI comments, then delete it because you don't want to accidentally steal someone else's comment, then re-do it, change the font, add a quote by your favourite author, get distracted because you start wondering if you should change your profile pic, come back to the list, accidentally delete it and start again. Just as you are about to post it, you preview it, check and double check for spelling and grammar mistakes... then spill water all over your desk.

YES!!