You Might be an Aspie if...

Post Reply New Topic

the OP is so true and this page is funny but quite hurtful as to what we experience on a daily basis.

...if you find reading on development of Vulgar Latin (in Spanish) incomparably more interesting than any party/socialisation/chat.

...if chatting/small talk/greeting neighbours/doing phone calls/meeting old acquaintances (who by some miracle or brain lymphoma want to meet you ) scares the sh*t out of you, and you're thrilled beyond measure when they stop calling you.

...if talking to relatives seems harder than digging the roots of sequoia tree.

...if reading a book on compiler theory makes you wiggle in your seat with joy.

You didn't get bullied in school because you had an older brother who was good-looking and popular, and when he left school all the kids your age used to ask him to get fags and drink for them - which makes an 18 year old seem really ''cool'' to 15 year olds.

But if you had been an only child, you probably would have got bullied.

If you get really annoyed of something has a name of a repeated word, like the band ''Duran Duran''. You think, why couldn't they just name the band ''Duran'' ? Why the name twice?

Ohh, it's annoying, aswell as cringing!

you might be an aspie if...
You have all the phone numbers on your contact list memorized...
You feel like screaming and hiding if there is a thunderstorm!
You can talk to your pet rabbit better than you can other people
You are still into pokemon!

If your ticket to having a meltdown is when people tell you to sshh when you're talking and they're trying to watch TV.
It's not the fact that you're told to be quiet - it's the fact that every single time it's your turn to talk, a ''good part'' always comes on the TV.
Then when you're sitting there quiet, people get the impression that you're too quiet and so they ask you what's the matter. As soon as you reply, another person in the room says, ''sshh - let me hear this part'' and you say, ''that's the reason why I was quiet.''
After that you begin to wish it was the 1920s when they didn't have TVs - then you'll get more social attention, and not be told to shut up each time you open your mouth.

Perhaps it's because everyone assumes I'm going to just talk drivel, so they just pretend to be listening to something on the TV just to save them from having to listen to your nonesense. It take it as an insult really, because nobody gives the Aspie a chance.

You are offended when people compliment that you're tall, because you hate being tall.

You're on WP, every waking minute of your day.

you might be an Aspie if, despite being born in 1964 and therefore having no meaningful memory of anything before about 1970, you still are familiar with the names of even obscure pro athletes that your dad and his friends talk about from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.

and know their statistics, and which teams they played for during which seasons.

...you wonder why everyone's favourite character/actor in films/TV shows is always the one who acts like an Aspie (takes everything literally, socially annoys other people, awkward, obsessive, irritable), yet Aspies aren't people's favourite in real life.

Hi, well I've been looking through the forums lately as I suspect I'm either Aspie or HFA and I needed something to occupy me while I wait for an appointment with a Specialist to diagnose me, and I decided to join once I realized I had a few things to add to the list:

- you only realized the people who were calling you names meant it in a bad way when they made you go to the school counselor.

- your friends who play Dungeons and Dragons and Magic for hours at a time call you weird.

- you get accused of being too logical by your male friends.

- you can spend hours integrating equations but the thought of spending 10 minutes on an essay causes you to panic.

- you think it's strange that singing and humming along to melodeath isn't "done".

- you refer to yourself by a Borg designation because you feel the sheep mentality of most humans are similar to the Borg collective.

- you felt that your family's eldest three pets, by virtue of having the same gender ratio in the same age order as your siblings was sufficient cause to call them your real siblings.

- you are happy to play with your 5 year old cousin because it's an excuse to play with his modeling kit - and you're four times his age.

- you've gained a saint-like reputation among your coworkers because they have to point out when customers are being rude to you.

- you learned human communication by observation.

- you only get along with older people and can't stand people that are your actual age.