You Might be an Aspie if...

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YMBAAI...

You wear opposite colour socks on purpose to display your knowledge of a colour wheel.

You organized every dish and cup in your house to match by weight and colour, and actually find the system helpful with your morning routine.

You owe more debt to the libraries than the USA does in credit because you fell in love with the book you borrowed and refuse to return it. (I eventually returned about half of them... took months though)

You survived watching a video on open heart surgery but passed out getting your ears peirced.

Goth kids are freaked out by your presence.

Your only friends are grown up goth kids, and you're still weirder than they are.

You can listen to classical jazz and death metal on the same CD and not see a problem with it.

You talk to your pet like it's a therapist... and it works better than a real therapist.

You enjoy being on the city bus because it gives you an opportunity to observe people like specimens in a labratory.

When your friends got pet dogs and cats, you wanted an ant farm.

Going to a five star restaurant during a special occasion and ordering five different vareties of potatoes is better than the main course... or ordering a meatloaf, only to discover that they don't make normal food you can pronounce properly. Really, what's the point if you don't know what the hell it is?

You think getting a large tattoo is more meaningful than buying a plane ticket for a family reunion.

You've never been to college, yet you are more impressive than the professors when people ask you questions.

You've turned down going to a wedding just because you didn't feel like it.

You've turned down funerals, and go to the grave on your own time table... or never go at all.

You've researched Aspergers, looking for answers to your life.

You later realize life is not a scientific explanation, but a badly reported and observed lab experiment, and doctors are morons.

You Might be an Aspie if...

You ask another what you should say and do in a particular situation you've never found yourself in, even though they haven't been in that situation either.

You realized I replicated the title of the thread correct to specific capitalizations and punctuation marks.

You can't look at the sky.

You believe criminality is more of a mental illness than schizophrenia is.

You can sympathize with a murderer if he cries on hearing the announcement of his death or life sentence.

You want to be diagnosed with Asperger's or some other mental illness.

YMBAAI:

- You pay more attention to a documentary then the hosts.


This happened to me. I was watching a show called Ironic Iconic America hosted by Bar Refaeli (an Israeli supermodel) and Rives. Afterward I looked the show up on the Internet and some person wrote:

You are almost certainly an aspie if you have ever sat with a loaded gun to your head searching for reasons not to pull the trigger and the most convincing one you could find was "My cat would be REALLY FREAKED OUT!! !! !".

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Better now.

YMBAAI: One of your brushes with the law involved overdue library books.

You Might be an Aspie if...

Instead of laughing, you say, "It's funny."

When you hear a new band or artist you like, you have to list their official studio albums, excluding EPs and live albums, and listen to them all in order.

As a Disney fan you treasure the fact that the Disney studios keep their own OFFICIAL list of their animated features. It saves picking and choosing between the real films and the cheap cash-in sequels. E.g., Bolt IS the 48th Disney Animated Classic.

You see a piece of paper and a writing instrument, and put them both to use by making a list of your Top 10 favourite films. Again and again and again...

Well, of course - how else are you going to see their growth as artists? It's very interesting, I think, to contrast Queensryche's work on their eponymous first album, when they wanted nothing more than to be the next hair-metal hit, to, say, Empire (whose songs revolve around various societal ills, from the self-perpetuating nature of urban crime to our treatment of the mentally ill), or their newest album, American Soldier (about the men and women fighting for us in the United States Army, their experiences, and how they felt when they got home - or how they might have felt about not coming home).

And I for one exclude live albums because I almost always find the studio versions vastly superior - those are the ones where the artist was given the time to polish the music, and make it sound like he/she wanted. (The only exception I know of is the live version of Emerson Lake & Palmer's "Karn Evil 9, First Impression, Part 2", from the album Welcome back My Friends To the Show That Never Ends, when Carl Palmer's drum solo, usually used to fill the two or three minutes Greg Lake takes to switch guitars, is suddenly extended to almost six minutes when Lake breaks a guitar string.)

For the first free choice writting promt you wrote for Engilsh 101 your theisis statement was somewhere along the lines of : "Humans, as far as sentient beings are considered, have reached a crisis point in their evolutionary line, seeing as most of us have lost the need and want for logical reasoning and profound thought. "

The fact that the cursour flashes when you type is the most annoying thing ever.

YMBAAI you absolutely must check Wrong Planet everyday for the latest YMBAA jokes.

You Might Be Aspie If: You ran for school vice president on the platform that all the VP does is chair the student senate, and you already memorized Roberts' Rules of Order.

You might be an Aspie if you visit a bookstore you normally frequent and you go into a near-panic because they've rearranged the sections since your last visit, causing you to wander around the store trying to find your favorites.

You might be an Aspie if, after the initial confusion settles, you end up purchasing a Rubik's Cube, then immediately think, "Did I just reinforce an Aspie stereotype?"

You might be an Aspie if the cashier who rang up your Rubik's Cube purchase started telling you a story about getting her sister one, and your response was, "Thank you," as you walked out the door while she was talking.

You might be an Aspie if you just spent the last 4 hours straight playing with a recently purchased Rubik's Cube, and the only reason you stopped was because you had to use the bathroom.

And the only reason you'd go to the bathroom then is because no amount of writhing and wriggling would prolong the amount of time you had with the cube.

Your interest in Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal has you interested in learning Mallorquin, a dialect used on the island of Mallorca, where Rafa is from.

You actually have heard of Mallorquin in the first place.

You write a DSM diagnostic criteria for a condition called "Rafa Mania."

YMBAAI you still wear your watch even when the band is falling apart because you're used to it and technically it's still wearable.

YMBAAI: You have worn your shoes down to the point where describing the bottoms as "soles" seem like a bit of an exaggeration, but even after trying for weeks you can't talk yourself into going to buy new ones. Using the excuse that they don't (quite) have holes in the bottoms yet and they don't look half bad from the top. Who cares about blisters right?