You Might be an Aspie if...

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ymbai:

You were a terrible burger maker, because you tried to make each hamburger a work of art, while your supervisor told you to be quicker and just slap it together.

Similar experience bagging groceries, each bag had to be a work of art. And you got perturbed when bread and fruit were on the belt and you waited for something heavy to come out so that you could put the bread and fruit on top. But when the whole belt filled up with nothing but light items you were chagrined to have to fill bags with those only.

You were the best Superbar person at Wendy's and didn't know you were supposed to hate doing the Superbar.

You were called upon to do fries during the rush. There were none to start with and the frying time delayed getting the orders out so you catch up with supply and get a good stack ready only for the rush to end, leaving a bunch of fries that probably had to be thrown out.

You work at Wendy's with prisoners on work release. You can get along with them because you don't fit in with other groups either.

One of the work release girls, a big black girl, takes a shone to you but you don's respond, (she wasn't my type even if I wasn't on the spectrum!). She tells a gay guy that you might be a prospect and he tries to pick you up. Both are now confused about you.

You had a masters degree, but were working at Wendy's.

All of the above happened before I had any idea I was on the spectrum.

* You are still not able to read analogue clocks quickly but are seriously disturbed by the fact that someone does not know how the voting process in Germany works. *insert long explanation about it in all minute details, including how the PDS got into the Bundestag once despite not getting over the 5% hurdle*

* The most scary part about your move to the UK is the fact that your huge plush penguins can't come with you. (They're like a cuddly weighted blanket)

Or, if you got a Statistical Abstract of the United States as a birthday present from your mother as a kid. And loved it.

I know, I'm quoting a four year-old post, but I just discovered this site.

You might be an Aspie if you've worn an analog watch for half your life and it still takes you a couple of seconds to determine the time.

...if you are resigned to endure the snickers and derision of the NT crowd for using a fanny pack because you cannot tolerate sitting on a wallet nor having big lumpy things like coins and keyrings in your pants pockets.



Mike

You eat soup making sure there is only one meatball in each spoon.

the real estate instructor tells everyone to be one computer desk apart from each other to make more space and they get upset about it, and I am way at a corner computer desk at the end of the room AWAY from all the others and am HAPPY about it.

You know that the small sea mammals in the Gulf of Mexico are dolphins, not porpoises, and you make sure to correct people if they call them porpoises.

You get annoyed when people say "Luke, I am your father," because the line really was "No! I am your father!"

Yeah, even Robot Chicken got that one right...

Don't know if this has been covered yet (I haven't read all of the 1700+ posts), but YMBAAI you've memorized the surrogate key for the Wrong Planet forums you frequent so that you can just type the URL in directly instead of using a bookmark. General discussion is #3, In-Depth Adult Life is #32, etc.

Not that I do this, of course.

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Or if you're incapable of creating an actual run-on sentence because it's grammatically incorrect, yet you find ways to create extraordinarily long sentences anyways which document everything and anything about the particular subject matter to which you are speaking, ignoring the fact that most people have already stopped reading at this point because you are, in fact, incapable of writing that final period and simply taking a much-needed pause in your sentence structure.

Yeah, I don't do that, either.

YMBAAI:

You have to call people when you arrive at their house on invitation, because you just can't knock on the front door.

I've done that! I went to visit my friend (it was a 300+ mile drive, so she was expecting me) and I called her on my cell phone when I pulled into her driveway to let her know I arrived.

I havent contributed in a long time.

YMBAAI:

You ask for a book of strange words for Christmas from your sister. You get one and love it, but still know more than 1/4 of them even though most of them are deliberately so obscure they are not in the OED. You are thinking of asking for another one.

YMBAAI:

You memorize your divisions and multiplication tables to 100 cause you have lots of free time to think at work. And you like it that way. Its fun.