You Might be an Aspie if...

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- The plush penguins seem to move to your place on their own
- their interaction has more depth than the average soap opera
- You have heard that you have not really been to Ireland unless you were in a pub. This statement bothers you greatly since you do not want to go into such a loud place as a pub and the idea to go somewhere where alcohol is consumed troubles you even more.
- You do not mind listening to the same song repeatedly.
- You would rather stay up reading than stay up partying
- You still have no one to talk to in the country you live in since 1 month even though everyone else magically seemed to have formed friendships.
- 'making friends' to you implies having plushies and making them behave as if they really were people.
- you spent New Year's Eve alone, and Christmas, and your birthday. You had no excuse not to celebrate your birthday apart from the fact that this would require being with more people than you are comfortable with.
- inviting your mother (no one else) to a quiet vietnamese restaurant counts as celebrating your birthday to you. It was the only time you celebrated your birthday with other people.
- you wish to travel back in time, to hunt down and to kill the inventors of the vacuum cleaners and the hair dryer because these devices make the most unbearable noises ever
- you prefer to use a command line tool to listen to music over a program like iTunes "because it is easier".
- you follow the rules of the road as if they were dictated by a deity.
- your parents go on vacation and leave you in an empty house and you immediately stop all clocks so that you don't have to bear their LOUD ticking (which no one else seems to notice).
- you'd prefer to slam your head against a wall until you pass out than shop for clothing.
- you know more parameters of the command ls than colleagues.
- people always seem to think that you are on drugs
- your one meter tall penguin sits next to you during exams
- even after all these years you still use the CUA or wordstar keyboard shortcuts, not the Windows ones for copy and pasting. Because you remember your parents moving from OS/2 to Windows and that it greatly upset you
- sometimes, you have the urge to read one specific part of one specific book over and over again and it troubles you greatly if said book is out of your reach at such times.
- you have more than 30 named plushies but fail to remember the names of your neighbours.
- you constructed a language well enough to write a 5000 word story in it.
- you manage to use that special interest of yours even for university. despite not studying linguistics.
- you are fond of saying that if people cared about relevant things instead of obsessing about how to drape their bodies in cloth, humanity would have conquered the solar system by now.

If you watch the weather channel for more than 2 hours a day.

...if a girl has ever said 'Eww' when presented with the prospect of going out with you.
...if the wife of one of your friends calls you 'Jeffrey Dahmer' because you appear emotionless.
...if you've whispered more intimate things to your Xbox than you ever have or ever will to any girl. (Oh yeah, baby.. Mhm, I'm putting this game in. You like that, baby? Of course you do.)
...if everyone calls YOU to find out when the next UFC and who exactly is fighting at that event because they know you have encyclopedic knowledge of it.
...if you have the exact same expression in every single picture that exists of you.

If people ring you up to ask for tomorrow's weather forecast, and you always get it more right than the weather man does because you can work it all out on the BBC weather site by looking at the pressure of the wind direction.

If you've only become obsessed with the weather lately because you hate it snowing so much that you need preparation for when it does, so that's why you keep looking and looking on the weather site, until you have finally caught yourself in an obsession with it.

If lots of people call you ''lazy'' and ''dossing on benefits'', even though you go and do voluntary work every day (even on Saturdays), and you get very anxious about looking for paid employment, but you're not intentionally lacking effort.

If you get really upset when people look at you in the street.

If you will never know why you hate clothes shopping. (Why do most Aspies hate clothes shopping???)

If you have a standard hairstyle, and never wear make-up, and give off ''hello I'm an idiot - laugh at me'' vibes, yet you still get fancied by older men.

If you have to be reminded to brush your hair before going out, but your cousin learnt to automatically brush her hair before the age of 12.

[quote="Joe90"]If people ring you up to ask for tomorrow's weather forecast, and you always get it more right than the weather man does because you can work it all out on the BBC weather site by looking at the pressure of the wind direction. [quote]

I once tracked a weather system moving up the East Coast, The pressure gradients were indicating 50 knot winds in a perfect direction to generate surf in Rhode Island I drove 400 miles and nailed it..Waves too big for this old guy to handle. I suppose the waves nailed me.

If your partner/husband/wife finds you very attractive but nevertheless they have absolutely no worries about your habits of going to the theatre or the brasserie all by yourself. They know that even if somebody tried to hit at you, you'd creep the poor idiot out in 10 seconds flat.

I think because it is sensory overload and because fashion is a language most Aspies don't understand. Being exposed to this different language and the importance of it for others is stressing. Also, most clothes feel BAD! You have to touch x pieces of cloth which feel HIDEOUS to get one which does not feel as hideous. Add the fact that clothes in general feel bad and undressing and trying on clothes makes you aware how bad they feel...

I like buying clothes but I tend toward idiosyncratic tastes rather than strictly fashionable.

But I hate going into stores. They're full of people, light, noise, too many things I don't want, that feel wrong and look wrong. I've lost track of how many times I've walked out of a store with nothing because I couldn't cope with it.

I also hate dressing rooms but I always regret failing to use them. Mostly I just want to get what I need and get out.

I'm not bothered by the touch of clothes. I think I just don't like clothes shopping because I can't be bothered, and also, where ever I stand in any shop I'm always in somebody's way. There's nothing worse than trying to look at things and there's somebody standing right on top of you, and practically pushing you out of the way. I get too distracted when there are strangers invading my space, I don't like strangers standing literally right next to me, and I don't like being pushed out of my space either. It's rude.

And people think Aspies are rude. Why don't they take a look at themselves!

You've made out with dogs but have never made out with a person.

If you set out to take the Aspie quiz with a friend to demonstrate how what they see (you project) and what you actually think inside your head are totally different, end up scoring their answers instead, and they turn out to have a higher score than you.

- Birds of a feather flock together....lol!! !

You might be aspie:

If your hygiene absolutely sucks. You almost never wear deoderent, you wash your cloths once every 3 weeks, u bathe every other day, wash your hair one in 5 days, u wear your clothes somewhere from once to five times till u wash it.

If you find yourself making lists and categorizing things all the time.

I try not to make lists because then I have papers everywhere. When I figure out I have too many, I start the process of sorting through them to decide which ones to keep, which ones to throw away, and which ones to shred. Then I get overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the project and end up quitting before I am done.

I do categorize things all the time though....lol!

Or, alternatively, if you feel physically ill if you have to put on clothes that have not been freshly laundered and ironed.

Also, YMBAA...
If you have a picture of Temple Grandin doing a lecture as a screensaver on your mobile phone.
Seriously, I have already had several people asking me 'Is that your Grandma ?'

I'm a very clean guy, cleanliness is even one of my obsessions. But I feel very much comfortable with wearing the same clothes. I can use the same pajamas ( I just love the feeling of pajamas ) for an entire month. Thanks goodness I don't smell bad!

I use the same shirt for up to 5 days in a row go to to work, and even get to sleep with them many times. I just check if it seems kind of ironed, if it's ok ( for my perception at least ) I just go with that one to work.