You Might be an Aspie if...

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(Hey re the first post, I've had those pets!)

Here's a variant. I found out about AS now at 43 and was thinking back. Examples of clues:

Lots of girls like horses. Your classmate shows you her set of model horses so when your parent says what would you like for your birthday you say a model horse. When it arrives, the most exciting part is the collector's manual that came in the horse's box, with all the model numbers and years and colors of discontinued molds, which you quickly memorize, and seek out earlier years of.
>:-D

Your favorite childhood book was an unabridged dictionary.

You've ever been caught up in and distracted for hours by browsing the phone book, and then brainstormed ideas for re-organizing and indexing it.

You know the rules to dozens of card games, most of which you have never played. And many of them have not been popular in you or even your parent's lifetimes.

You don't really get Windows NT.

YMHAI. . .
-you are 20 years old but fancy man in their 50s cos you think lads your own age are too immature
-you are really nervous of phoning up for a job and you'll rather actually give your CV to the actual place
-you get tongue-tied when in a panic (eg, when I meant to say ''what if someone throws snowball at me'', I say instead ''what is someone snows throwballs at me'', and the person you're with giggles at you)
-each time you sneeze in public it goes up as you do it, so you end up making a funny ''spastic'' noise and people turn and look at you thinking you have Tourrette's Syndrome
-you can't be bothered to smile
-you wonder why girls say ''like'' between every other word when they're speaking
-you can be really social and loud and chatty underneath, but you're scared to speak up because of the fear of being inturrupted or ignored (I know all the social rules, but this fear of being ignored really pulls me back)
-you come storming out your room when you can hear voices of other people in the house
-you hate your name cos every time someone asks for your name, you always mumble it, and they never hear what you said so you feel like aggressively spelling it out to the deaf idiot
-you really really really really really hate winter because you know it's quicker to get dressed in the summer - all you have to do is slip on some shorts and a T-shirt and sandels/flip-flops. In the winter it's T-shirt, jumper, trousers, scarf, gloves, coat, hat...
-every day you check the forums to see if anyone has reacted to your posts, and when nobody has it drives you mad

I think I'm the worse person at maths on this forum.

hmm..in that quote you state 101=52^1+52^0+52^1... but 52 + 1 + 52 is 105, right? So then that 52 should be a 50... but this is a giveaway I think, I have yet to figure out how that math works.

Edit: the post is after the rgh post, but by "you" I actually meant the one quoted in the quote in the quote (ExeterChris).

You wear some combination of sneakers, jeans, a polo shirt, and a hoodie every day.

You have a strong aversion to the smell of ketchup.

People are uninteresting unless they share your interests.

You have a tendency to ramble and/or repeat yourself over and over.

You might be an unusual Aspie if you read random pages through this thread and find loads of comments what don't apply to you, and whatever you put don't apply to anyone else on this forum.

I am too Aspie for NTs, but too NT for Aspies

you are frequently startled or angered by loud noises, but the music in your car is always on full blast

you wish it were more socially acceptable to wear sweat pants to formal events

you feel that in an argument, the oppossing party should automatically differ to you, because you are smarter anyway

You MIGHT be an Aspie if you've always worn your watch on your right wrist.

You might be an aspie if, you go around walking around buildings more than once..

You might be an Aspie if you cry ''why me?'' at least 5 times a week, knowing that all your cousins are normal and doing OK and you have a massive fear of being a 45 year old virgin and a spinster who still lives with your parents, whilst all your cousins have moved on (although you're only 20 at the moment).
And you don't feel ''special'' either cos your cousins are too wrapped up in their ''parties'' and ''social lives'' to even give 2 s**ts about you.

It's horrible when you don't have many friends, and there is one other person in your family who is as shy as you and you feel you can confide with - until one day you hear that he has just been to a party with mates, and that totally makes you wonder how he done it and you haven't yet.

You also may be an Aspie if your cousin is 5 today, and you know that in 20 years time from now he will be coming up to your parents door (where you still live) and inviting you and your parents to his wedding.

You ARE an Aspie if you're missing out on being young, and then when you will reach 60 you will actually have some friends who actually enjoy your company, and then you'll say ''aw, I wish I knew all you lot when I was 20 years old. We would have been out dressing up and clubbing and having it off with fit young men! Instead I just wasted my life sitting in every night, knowing my young life was a ticking time bomb! I hate Aspergers so much that I feel like throwing my brain out the window and replacing it with a f*****g NORMAL person's brain!''

ps, you might also be an Aspie if it's been nearly 3 years since you first started driving lessons, and you're still doing them to this day.