You Might be an Aspie if...

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You would rather sit at home alone on Halloween than go out with your "peers", and consider it odd that other people would rather go "out".

You might be an Aspie if...

You spend a lot of time every day thinking about what a Theory of Mind is and who, if anyone, actually possesses one, and the only psychology class you've taken was an intro class 30 years ago where TOM was never discussed.

You feel obliged to specify that you aren't technically an Aspie butan NLDer, and then, if asked what exactly NLD is, and how it's different from Asperger's, can't answer the question.

You feel obliged to over-explain most things so you're not inadvertently lying.

You carefully scrutinize the last statement to make sure it's 100% accurate and you feel slightly guilty because you're not 100% sure.

You wonder which parts of yourself you've lost in your attempts to pass for NT, and if it's not too late to get them back.

YMBAAI...

...you manage to impress a Mormon missionary with your knowledge of the LDS church.

...you, after having handed in your master's thesis, are told by your supervisor that it has brought you half-way to a PhD.

...you have trouble telling the difference between a date and an employment interview.

(All above are from real life.)

Also, hi. This is my first post.

In my Jr High school cafeteria there were periodic "Eat in Silence" days as punishment for who the hell knows what. YMBAI if, at the end of one of those lunch periods, you come out of your fog and ask the nearest person, "Did we have an Eat in Silence Day today?" and she laughs and says that I never know when we have them.

You feel most of your spare time should be productive. Like working on a project (Writing, Computer Program, Web Site, Art, Math and such) or watching educational shows related to your interest, or reading books and magazines related to your interest or reading classics.

If you do not fit into the majorities idealism of what a person should be like
If you have a mind of your own , think outside the box, push boundaries....

you think this is the best thing in the universe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch-R1aIM-C0

you worry about making such an absolute judgment as "best in the universe" without all possible data.

You might be an Aspie if you can wire up a concert sound system, but don't remember to saw laundry loads even though you wrote it down, your mom told you three times, and you even told yourself out loud a few times to remember it. Mom LOVES my ability to do such things.

You might be an Aspie if, you go around using quotes and dialogue from movies in normal everyday conversation...

Ymbaa If you casually tell someone you hope you know as many facts as they do when you get to their age, and can't see anything offensive or rude in what you've said.

When you were a child you got in an argument with your friend because he said that if something was printed in a book it was true, and you tried to convince him that books only have what is currently known and can even be opinion, but you couldn't convince him.