You Might be an Aspie if...

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I'm more on the Dyspraxic side than the AS side, so tell me if these apply to AS. (I'm a female)
You may have AS if. . .

-You struggled at Art, yet you enjoyed the subject

-You feel sorry for a piece of pasta that has fallen on the floor

-You endlessly panic if someone else in your home gets a cold or sick bug because you feel all nice and healthy and don't want to catch their viruses

-You worry more about the feelings of an old toothbrush (what needs throwing away) than your family's feelings when you yell at them in a lash-out

-You love films with kids acting in rather than the film being about all adults

-You are so obsessed with buses (I am) that you have to get a job somewhere where you have to use your favourite bus to get there (I'm only obsessed with buses cos the men driving them seem to fancy me)

-You get on with somebody who has Altzheimer's

-You find moths as good bedroom mates

-You really hate snow because of the embarrassment of slipping over in the street

-You feel embarrassed or 'sulky' if someone says ''ssshhhh!'' to you

-You pray to god that it'd be a hot summer and a mild winter this year

-You used to base your whole school day around avoiding the school bell

-You think libraries are boring, but you still rather go to a library than a party, if you had to choose

-You hope and pray your cousin doesn't bring a friend round to your house with her

-You crave for attenton from men

-You deny being a virgin

-You deny having a condition, yet wonder why people think you're ''odd'', and you know that if you told them about the condition then they won't think you're ''odd''

-Clocks with a loud tick sooths you to sleep

-Frightening your cat it ''funny'' to you, but if a dog frightens you, you will never think it's ''funny''

-You're obsessed with hygeine

-You are obsessed with extreme clothing, (eg) you live in boots in the winter, and you live in sandels in the summer

-You dump your hangbag down anywhere when you come in the front door, then forget where you left it

(Just a quick change of subject, NTs are just as bad as Aspies here. Everything I've read on here, I know that every NTs I know are just like us!)

-The most fun form of communication if flirting with leary old men

-You'd rather be friends with forriegn people because you feel they are down on your social level when speaking in English

-You really enjoy going poo

-You can't stand hearing someone else's TV murmuring in a different room

-You lay in bed on a Saturday night and think of all the rough, noisy teenagers and drunks who are hanging about in the depths of the High Street, and you think yourself lucky being safe and away in your bed, and wonder how much you'd be panicking to get safely out the way if you were roaming about the town on your own at the worst possible time

-You were the last person in your class who learnt to swim

-You did not know the alphebet off by heart until you were 8 years old

-You failed Maths and Science in your exams

-Watching a scary film about evil dolls before going to bed won't give you nightmares (but will give you the creeps before sleeping), but hearing somebody say that the bus company is changing or the bus times are changing will give you nightmares

-You wished you had taken up Geography instead of Music

-You'd rather mess about in class than get on with work

-You had hell and all trouble with your homework, and so had to make excuses up the next day as to why you didn't do your homework

-On Monday the 1st of February you get set a homework which is a long-term assignment to be handed in by Thursday the 2nd of March, and you end up starting the whole thing on Wednesday the 1st of March, last thing at night

-You are now trying to work out if the dates are timed correct above! (Not me, though)

-You love sunny holidays

-You have a crush on all the male bus-drivers

-You carry your mobile phone, your MP3, your buspass, your keys and your money around with you where ever you go

-Your reading level is at a 10 year old's level

-You face Sods Law every day and it gets you angry

-Your scarf becomes your best item of clothing in the winter, and your shorts become your best item of clothing in summer

-You change your T-shirt every day in summer, because of the fear of ''smelling of BO''

-You can play the piano with one hand, but not with 2 hands

-You change your underwear every day, including socks

-You curl your toes up when walking in big trainers to keep you from tripping

-You get distracted easily

-You walk in a shop door, not seeing the people who are coming out of the same door, so they glare at you and wonder why you've just pushed past them

-You want to wear make-up and have trendy hairstyle, but you find it difficult to actually accomplish the tasks

-You have difficulties explaining yourself

-You get so embarrassed if you burp that you're even too embarrassed to say pardon

-You hate the noise of dogs barking, kids screaming, loud cars or motorbikes, and loud horns on cars

-You can't stand the sight of a big crowd of teenagers

-You forget to tidy up after yourself

-You wonder why everyone has to behave really naturally in the street and not look silly

-You feel embarrassed a lot, even with familiar people

-You have to bring a little calculator with you in shops because you cannot, for the life of you, do sums in your head

-You don't like using the self-service check-outs because you feel people are watching you, and so you feel you have to rush, then the self-service check-out doesn't properly tell you the amount you need to give, so you just shove a 5 pound note into the machine, and if it wants more you just keep putting 1 pound coins in until you've paid the full amount and gives you your change

-You feel like crying and lashing out, ''leave me alone!! !'' when somebody starts criticizing/getting onto you about what you should and shouldn't do

-You feel bored with reading this and wishing I'll shut up

But honestly, most of the things written in this whole forum are what NTs do too. If NTs didn't do any of these things then they'll be robots!

Last edited by Joe90 on 08 Jul 2010, 7:21 am, edited 12 times in total.

This forum should be a ''you may be a normal human being if..'' forum, because I sat my 23 year old NT cousin down and we read all through these together, and she said that ninety-seven percent of these posts apply to herself and all her NT friends.

Last edited by Joe90 on 07 Jul 2010, 9:16 am, edited 6 times in total.

You have a go at someone for saying something dumb and it's too late once you find out they were sarcastic.
I did this twice yesterday, once on facebook and once on youtube. I did not asses the situation first.

You might be an Aspie if, you constantly check your watch..

If you stay inside, on hot sunny days.

If you can walk into a restaurant and your food is already made and ready to go.

I don't go in restaurants much, and if i did i don't order the same meal.
Most of these posts do not apply to me.

-You'd be willing to drop what you're doing just to catch an animal.

-You sometimes know more zoology than your guide.

-You like to stack things in patterns.

You might be an Aspie if you brush your teeth more than 2 times a day..

if you can rattle off the names of every battleship that fought at Jutland.

How would this particularly make you an Aspie?

...if you have a strong urge to gather dates off of everything, be it canned food, movies, tv shows, anything
...if hearing about the death of an animal touches you more than the death of a person
...if you write a 6 paragraph response to a simple question
...if your idea of fashion is anime cosplay over Abercrombie & Fitch
...if you count the tiles on the floor at your grocery store and try to make some sense out of them

1, 2, and 5 apply to myself, 2 not so much

You might be an Aspie if you look for train tracks in every city and town..

Or you can't stand the flavor and texture of toothpaste so you find a brand that is okay and brush maybe once a day if your family is lucky or you cannot stand whatever is on your teeth. (hehe, guilty as charged. Mint flavored hurts my tongue.)

Apparently Aspies don't cry at anything sad what would make other people cry. That is wrong, mate - has any of you seen ''Grampa'' by Raymond Briggs? (If you're in America you probably haven't heard of it 'cos it's English). It's a short children's cartoon, but is really mature and serious, so adults can watch it aswell. It's about a little girl who stays with her Grampa, and he takes her out and does a lot with her and loves her - but at the end he dies and you see his empty chair where the little girl sits in, crying, with the dog. And I am crying my eyes out as I'm writing this. If I still watch it now, I always stop it before the ending 'cos it will make me cry. So it is true that Aspies cry at sad films.

Can any of you cry at sad things? I know I do.

I'd better cheer myself up, so I will say a couple of YMHAIs :-
...you get annoyed when people say 17 year olds are ''little children,'' when you think back to when you was 17 you was an ''adult'' according to everyone else, and you had to act like one even though you wasn't ready and was slightly more immature than the average 17 year old.

...you hate a '';'' (I think it's called a semi-colon) because everyone time you press the apostrophy key, you always find you've pressed the semi-colon key by mistake and that ugly thing comes up when an apostrophy should be there. For example. I always find: that;s mine, i think he;s nice, i think they;re over there. . .
(Do you get what I mean? Sorry about my explaining skills - they're not very good. I'm not very intelligent, which is why I wonder if i definatly have Dyspraxia instead of this s**t).

Good day

you might be an aspie if you whistle every 30 seconds..