You Might be an Aspie if...

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...............first thing you do when evaluating a future SUV purchase, you CRAWL UNDERNEATH to check out the chassis and suspension THEN go take a look around inside (I actually did that, on saturday, my dad looking into purchasing a used 2008 Yukon Denali)

..............you shock the used car dealer with your knowledge in things when you crawl out from underneath the vehicle.


...................dealer looks at you like your nutts when they offer to have their mechanic look over the vehicle and decline the offer say "yea I brought along my own mechanic" and the mechanic is your 26 year old daughter. (me)


...........................you get bored of the doctor when all he does is takes your BP then starts smalltalk about your siblings and parents and you feel like just taking your own BP then calling to have a chit chat (smalltalk) from home.

(i hate smalltalk and i dont' see the point in spending 30 dollars co-pay to get my blood pressure checked and doctor ask me about my brother or my mom............... I'd rather go to an amusement park or the beach with that 30 dollars.

.................when door repair companies/closer repair facilities email YOU asking for help with a specific door closer question or try to pull a sales pitch.


................you get along better with the above said door repairers then you do with your parents or siblings

...if you spend all day, every day in your room surfing the internet, only emerging to get food and water.

...if you're in your 20s and you still like to read books that are marketed towards young teens.

...if you think of your laptop as your closest friend. (Or is that just me? )

...if you find the idea of actually having to get a job and work amongst NTs completely abhorrent.

...if you've never even been on a date before, even though you're already in your 20s.

...if you obsessively collect Chicken Soup for the Soul books.

...if one of your coping mechanisms is to play word games over and over again on your iPod, sometimes for hours on end.

...if the only people you really talk to on a daily basis are your parents.

Ah, quiet_dove, this isn't just you at all. At least, that's me too.
Note: I love to read children's books, fairy tales and Harry Potter books even though I am 35. Don't think I'll ever be able to stomach anything written by Paul Levine or, say, Lauren Weisberger - who, I've been told, are very popular authors among my age group.

I can't help but counter with...

...if you were only reading books marketed towards adults by the time you were ten years old.

...if you carried a dictionary with you everywhere as a child.

...if your favorite book as a child was an encyclopedia.

...if you consider(ed) books to be your best friends.

Oh man, I used to do that too. I don't think mine were ever a page long, but I'd get them most of them into one sentence. If I had to use a second sentence, then it would be related to the first sentence so that at most, one coherent paragraph encompassed the entire list. Did that all the way through grade 6 (despite numerous objections from teachers).

You need to take a day off from your volunteer job, after spending two days with your family.

It works from either side, really.

Oh very yes. Only, I never carried a dictionary with me, I memorized it. Sort of carrying it with me, come to think about it.



Yes again, I did that. And I still do, whenever I feel can get away with it

YMBAAI...
you are so monotone that people compare your voice to Napoleon Dynamite's.
you do a terrible job of merging onto the highway.
you are in a group conversation and someone forgets that you are there.
you don't understand why people find economics to be a tough subject.
you are a college male who loves to watch Hannah Montana, whether or not it's age appropriate.
you don't understand how people can find computer software to be too hard to use.
you forgot how to parallel park after you took the driver's test.
you feel tired after you tell your girlfriend that you love her.

If it took you multiple confused readings of the cartoon to figure out what the big deal was with the coffee.

It took me three or four. For those who still don't get it when he says coffee he means sex.

You find people getting upset with you for your choice of words.

It took me only one reading, but I did stare blankly at it for a moment. Then I laughed. Then I was sad.

If you get horribly jealous when another one of your younger cousins says he/she has a boy/girlfriend, because you're 21 next year and still haven't reached that milestone yet, and your younger cousins are still at school

...or, alternatively, if another of your cousins says he/she has a boy/girlfriend, you think privately 'there's no logical explanation why people do bother with such things'.

If you eat lunch in your car rather than the cafeteria/dining hall