You Might be an Aspie if...

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YMBAAI the new "kenken" puzzles in the newspaper bother you because they seem to suggest that subtraction and division are commutative operations.

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YMBAAI... Whenever you had to write an essay/any written work on the computer, your reward for writing a sentence was to play at least 3 games of Freecell/Spider/Solitaire.

YMBAAI...
You find it fun, as a sixteen year-old, to spend New Year's Eve writing out notes on forensic science;
You spend the night of your Leavers' Ball wondering what's happening on CSI (it was when Sara and Grissom were finally confirmed as a couple);
Your iPhone apps consist of Convertor, DC Comics, Discovery news, entropy, Greek Gods, iBazzinga, iCherokee (Cherokee language flash cards), iFormulas [iFormulae?], Latinn verbs, Marvel, NASA, Physics World News Flash, Planets, PortaPython, Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock, Space Images, 3D Brain, WN Swedish, and various other Maths apps. And you use them every day;
You have always found it impossible to eat bananas. The texture is just too much.

.. when you are at a weddingparty and while everyone is engaged in conversation you spend the time at the kids table teaching them how to fold paper planes.

... if you clean out your ears excessively and expect that at some point you will remove that piece of wax that is causing the continuous beep in your head.

....if you scan craigslist for free TVs to take apart for parts to build your own plasma globes, Jacobs ladders etc, but you never watch TV itself..

YMBAAI...
You were the only person in class who could spell 'though' correctly... at the age of six.
You corrected your teacher in your second week at primary school (aged seven) when she said the dangly bit at the back of your mouth was your tonsil, when in fact it is the uvula. She then disagreed, and I told her to look in a dictionary. Safe to say, fifteen years on, she still hates me.

You can tell that a dog is at least part Alsatian at 100 metres away from its high wolf-like cry, but you suck at reading body language.

-You're able to write your name at 18 months old.
-When your a kid and you collected those math books that they sell at walmart and other places because you thought it was fun to do math problems.
-When you are able to do ratios, fractions, pre-algebra when you are only in second grade.
-You thought that it was mundane when your elementary grade teachers were trying to teach you multiplication tables because you thought it was supposed to just click for everyone.
-you took apart EVERYTHING that was mechanical/electronic just to see how it worked and what it looked like.
-you chewed on metal, stryofoam, or plastic
-you got in arguments with other kids because, even when playing, they didn't think logically.

Edit

Forgot to add, when you are in forth grade and you are reading at a 11th grade level.

When you can't cross the road because of the red sign, even if you know you are going to be late.

When you never stop moving your hands or your legs or both.

When you don't understand people in general.

You know you're an aspie, when...

you get up at 5 o'clock in the morning to wash your laundry, because then the launderette is empty.

you get the feeling that you are the only one who turns off all the lights in the shared bathroom and turns off that tab entirely.

you listen whether someone is in the floor before you leave your room.

you face huge problems if you want to get your food from the kitchen and it is crowded because someone is having friends over for cooking

you're desperately looking for ways to leave a meeting without being accused of being impolite if you go without saying goodbye to anybody.