You Might be an Aspie if...

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... you went back to work to mail a letter that you forgot to mail, because it would have bothered you all night.
... you're listening to Christmas carols because they are on your current playlist.

...you think you've talked on the phone for an hour when it's really only been ten minutes.

...You're in line to get lunch at school and a friend asks you how much cash you have, and your response is 12 megabytes.

You walk into the mall with your husband and the first thing you start talking about is the history of the place because you had been doing research on it online. Of course he probably doesn't even care.

Every time someone tells you to do something or asks you to do it or tells you about a new movie that is playing in theaters, you always think they mean NOW this instance.

Someone tells you they are leaving and they don't leave right away so you are sitting there getting all anxious wondering when are they leaving.

Your family tells you they are all leaving so you put your shoes on and grab your coat and stuff you like to bring with and go wait out in the car but you are sitting there wondering why everyone is taking so long to leave. Then you decide to get out of the car and see they aren't even getting ready and they are just slacking off. So you get very annoyed and irritated because you turned off the computer just because they said they were leaving. So you get very anxious.

You don't want to stop what you are doing just to look for your relative's address so your husband can finish sending out Easter cards.

You are making out Easter cards to your family and your partner's and you want to get it done with than putting it off to the side and there is no mail the next day and the mail man had already came by that day. But you still want to get it done and not leave it unfinished.

You don't see the point in sending out thank you cards to people if they were at the party or wedding or baby shower and they saw you opened their gift and thanked them.

You follow the pregnancy book like a bible and the diet too when you are pregnant.

You worked on learning to be flexible and overcame the inflexibility but you feel gypped because you see people around you being inflexible and they don't even have AS.

You might be an aspie if you go to see the psychaitrist for med refills, only to be asked by said shrink what you'd prescribe a patient who's autistic and has agression bordering on violence. To which you answer, "start with 0.25mg of risperidone, 1 pqam; 1 pqpm, quantity limit 30 and ask that they see you again in two weeks". Because you know everything there is to know about psychopharmaceuticals (yes, this scenario really did happen to me once).

...Someone wants to date-but then you decide to get a dog, instead...Which is cheaper and more loyal?

...If you are nice, people take advantage. If you are angry about it, people say you're horrible, and take advantage. If you get fed up and decide it's all too much hassle, people pursue you!

....you sometimes act like there's someone with you when you're in the house all by yourself

....when you were a child you used to literally SCREAM each time a dog came upto you just to sniff you

....it really disturbs you when people sneeze, cough or clear their throat loudly

....you absolutely hate it when people sit their toddler on the bus in the seat directly behind you, because of the irritation they cause you when they squeal in your ear or fidget behind you, or kick the seat, which disrupts your relaxation and space

....you wonder why people say Aspies don't express their feelings - because you are always showing emotions all the time to people in the street (example when you're angry you non-verbally show anger, when you're excited you non-verbally show excitement, ect)

....you wonder why people are always telling you to ''give your friends space'', yet your NT cousins practically lives in her friend's pocket - which doesn't look like she's giving her friend any space there

...you'd rather read the dictionary than a romance novel.

...Someone is at your door to talk about Jesus and you start talking to them about how you are going to attempt building a singularity generator.

...You find yourself talking to your cats, but if your next door neighbor tries to speak to you, you make an attempt to run and hide.

...You go downstairs to make a sandwich, but as soon as you look into the fridge to get the stuff you get distracted in a conversation on quantum transportation and 40 minutes later ask yourself why you are staring at the mayonnaise with the fridge door open.

....when you were alone in the warehouse at work once, you heard a customer call, ''excuse me? Anyone in here?'' and you felt so unconfident at the time to face any strangers and speak to them, so (knowing that they hadn't seen you in there), you quickly scarpered and hid behind stacked boxes. Then you felt silly for hiding, but knew that the customers nor colleagues saw you, so it's OK.

....you are so absent-minded that you need to write a list of things to do in the morning what you would probably forget if the list wasn't written, for example I would most probably forget one or more of these: putting deoderant on, cleaning teeth, washing face, checking face in the mirror, brushing the hair, ect. Most NTs I know seem to do these naturally, but I can't do these naturally. It's not that I don't want to look clean and nice - it's just that my brain seems to be focused on other things.

...You like to see your local Jehovah's witness, and talk to him for 5 minutes, because now you won't need to speak to anyone else for at least another week...or two...

You might be Aspie if you butt in on a conversation to discuss your Special Interest, and keep talking until all but one person has left, and then you follow that person around, and you keep talking to them about your special interest until they leave, and you keep talking about your special interest to anyone within earshot as if they were paying any attention to you, and you don't notice that no one is paying attention to you until they turn off the lights and someone tells you to lock up when you leave.

YMBAAI

... if you were recommended for a promotion (still a call center job) and you are thinking of ways how to subtly sabotage the interview because one specific sensation in that area is throwing you off and giving you nightmares.
... if you have listened to ambient for several hours each day for months but today were linked to a filk song on youtube and proceed to listen to it more than 15 times in a row