You Might be an Aspie if...

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You might be an Aspie if you brave a rather nasty thunderstorm to go out to eat at a restaurant you like by yourself. Your reasoning? Conventional wisdom is to avoid going out in bad weather unless absolutely necessary. Most "normal" people do not consider going out to eat absolutely necessary. Ergo, the probability that the restaurant will be empty, or nearly so, is fairly high, potentially mitigating any social anxiety you may feel from eating in public.

You might be an Aspie if you have a tendency to use words such as "ergo."

Tired of all the GREEN media hype and things promoted that actually do more harm, i.e. bio fuels that take more petroleum to make than the energy they produce, and created food shortages in third world country's so that they have to cut down more rain forest to make up for the deficit -- hybrid cars that use up more resources to make and deplete rare elements.

You wonder why a celebrity is qualified to give advice on divorce or drug addiction or the environment rather than a psychologist or a scientist. Why do their life experiences somehow carry more weight than that of ordinary people and makes them somehow qualified to give advice.

You check your email when you wake up. Then at 8 then at 10:30 then at 12:30 then at 3:30 then at 5:30 even though you have no current regular corespondent and don't expect anything particular.

You might be an aspie if
- you find a thread like this one and start doing the copy and paste shuffle, pasting the responses you identify with into a new document...

Or maybe it's just me, lol

I'm LOL when reading about YMBAAI details...
Aren't we just sooo good at being ourselves ! !

BTW Ilikedragons, What is it ?

Hello Gingersnaps,

Welcome. I've only been on WP for few months, a very well run site with real interesting people everywhere.

You go to a pep rally and don't understand how the cheers make people excited.

You do the cheers out of sync at a pep rally.

You get tired of seeing all these aspies use "to" instead of "too."

So far I have only thought of a few from my days in college:

YMBAI - You spent over eight years in college and post graduate study and never voluntarily met with a professor.

YMBAI - You tricked the course registration system at your college into letting you register for a graduate level course taught with a writing emphasis during your first year of college. The professor of that course then took time to read your mid-term paper to the class because he thought it was so great and that was during the same term you were failing the required freshman writing course.

YMBAI - The two hardest subjects you dealt with in college were parking and financial aid.

YMBAI - On a college exam question that asked you to explain photosynthesis you got marked down because you not only explained photosynthesis in excruciating detail, but also put it in context by explaining the entire carbon cycle, the roll of photosynthesis in evolution on Earth over several billion years, and the roll of photosynthesis in the oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere.

YMBAI - You've never kept the same full time position with the same employer longer than one year.

Not sure if this is something other aspies do. When I played Backgammon, I'd take the two checkers that start farthest away put them one side up and all the other pieces the other side up so that I could keep track of their progress.

You raise your hand to answer so many times that the teacher asks other people to answer.

Your teacher comments on how involved you are in class.

if you've ever invented and memorized a hieroglyphic cipher for no reason other than 'I was bored'.

if you consider sleep a waste of time.

if you can't remember what classes you go to on a regular basis, but you know the notebooks for them by the pictures you draw on the cover.

if your astronomy professor passes away and you immediately think 'I wonder if the new guy will use the planetarium as much'.

if you start debates mid-conversation over the proper pronunciation of words you're not familiar with.

if you look at the emoticons on the post screen and try to pinpoint the exact frames that marks the beginning and end of the animation cycles.

if you click on google ads because they went completely random on a particular page and your curious as to why the two are connected.

YMBAAI:

Out of all the horrific violence in the film A Clockwork Orange, the only part that makes you flinch is when the doctor spits on Alex's face, and it lands on his nose and LIPS, AND HE DOESN'T WIPE IT OFF! AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGHH!

You are given instructions, and by the time you walk the twelve steps to where you are meant to carry out said task, you've forgotten half of the words in the request. ("There are no microphones in there." "I said 'microphone STANDS'.")

You get irritated when listening to music while waiting to turn when you're driving, because the blinker is never in perfect sync with the tempo of the music.

You find sleep boring.

You always regret not sleeping when it's 7am and time to go to uni.

When importing classical music into your iTunes library, the composer's surname, and a colon, must precede the title of the piece (with movement number, if applicable) contained in the track. E.g.: "Beethoven: Symphony #6 In F, Op. 68, "Pastoral" - 1. Allegro Ma Non Troppo".

You listen to classical music.

You don't see any logic in the "resisting arrest" charge, as it is really just self-defense.

Your parents thought you had hearing problems when you were young and took you to get your ears tested. The test involved indicating to the doctor whether or not you could hear certain beeps. You would always overplay your hearing "impairment" in an attempt to be given a medical reason to be spoken to differently, which, in itself, was an attempt at discovering which mode of talk from others was best suited to you. You did this by pretending not to hear some of the quieter beeps. Eventually you are sent in for an operation whereby small tubes are inserted into your eardrums, and you are delighted at all the non-communication-required attention you're getting, and marvel at waking up what feels like mere seconds after you first fell into the anaesthetic, which you had believed was caused by the bright light shining above you (a "sleep light", as your childish mind called it) only because that was the only thing you could remember that you had never seen or felt before, and so attributed it to the instant sleep.

You know you might be an aspie when you play yourself at Scrabble. (BTW you get outlandishly high scores, since no one is playing defense!)