You Might be an Aspie if...

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YMBAAI:

...when the Bob Marley song "Buffalo Soldier" comes on the radio, you have to bite your tongue in order to not launch into an immediate rant about all the historical inaccuracies and downright anachronisms in the song. ("Buffalo soldier" was a nickname given black US troops in the old West, by Lakota who thought their hair resembled the winter pelt of a North American bison. They were not "dreadlocked rasta", as the Rastafari movement would not begin for almost a century; nor were they "stolen from Africa", as the smuggling of enslaved humans from Africa had been forcibly stopped by international law, often enforced by the British fleet, some decades earlier. While many of the buffalo soldiers were freed slaves, they were men who had been born in America, generally of parents born in America as well. And how "the heart of the Caribbean" even came into the song is something I've never understood... However, it annoys my wife, who likes reggae, when I rant about this, so I stop myself.)

All very true...especially the high school ones because they are the most applicable to myself at this stage in life.

...if you have catalogues of information no one else cares about...

You might be an Aspie if...

...you have visited online messages boards since the days of dial-up BB's, before the internet was invented, and this is the first one where no one has to explain any of the jokes on a "you might be..." thread.

...you start reading this thread and then finished all 134 pages even though you are at work and have a lot to do.

...it makes you crazy every time you drive past a nativity scene because everyone but the wisemen look European and the wisemen were never at the manger anyway.

...your friends have started calling you "Spock" because of the number of times you have said the phrase "That is not logical".

...you have actually put enough thought into this to wonder if Vulcans are Aspies and if Aspies can mind meld.

...you start a conversation about the origination of a cliche that someone used ten minutes ago and everyone is sitting around looking at you like you are crazy because they don't even remember anyone saying it.

...you mention someone's IQ being lower than yours as a factual statement and don't realize until five hours later why they thought you had insulted them.

...all of your friends are people you met online.

...you are nearly in tears over walking into a crowded Walmart but you barely react to being diagnosed with cancer.

...you would rather throw yourself into a woodchipper than spend a day at the mall.

...you don't understand why it freaks people out that you can start up a conversation with a complete stranger about your fight with cancer without any emotion.

YMBAAI...
you want Timothy Geithner's job because you could easily create decent economic policy.

you easily find where a politician's policies are not logical.

You might be an Aspie if:

Christmas Day and a house full of family and friends is not enough to keep you away from Wrong Planet.

Your husband has to run up the steps and turn off your bath water before the tub flows over while you're in your bedroom on your computer and it seems like only seconds ago that you turned on the bathwater.

You might be an aspie if you consider the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures the best thing on television during the christmas holidays.

You might be an aspie if you stayed up the whole Christmas night just to post every exact hour on Twitter that it's the _th hour of Christmas.

You might be an aspie if you've fallen asleep out on your balcony next to a telescope.

YMBAAI:

This image annoys you greatly:

Ha Ha that's HILARIOUS!!

I"m reading with my mother and we're going.. "that's me, that's you, oh that's SO you.."
and on and on.

Guess it IS genetic!

Thanks for the giggle

Your nickname is literal man.

Your friends or co-workers tell jokes and immediately begin explaining them to you if you are present, because they know you didn't get it.

For quite a while you looked up every time someone said "What's up" until someone finally explained that it meant “Hi”.

You ever stopped listening to someone talk because they said an interesting word and you started to think about its origin and everything relating to it, and after they finished talking, instead of responding to them, you begin to tell them all about the word they used.