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Ah I see. Sorry about that. I am not a Gaga hater. I couldn't care less, actually. The above post was just a quick review of the one specific song posted. Reading my post again, I see that it could easily be misunderstoof.

No news there...

But, c'mon.., the Gaga-version of pokerface is sorta ... not-so-interresting.

But I do go on, don't I...

I have AS and I like Lady Gaga's music. However, I don't like her as a person.

You're not an Aspie if...
You have to be told to stop chatting in class.

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I love this one! So true.


I think it depends on how it happened. I was raised in a church where EVERYONE was expected to marry and have kids. Very strong indoctrination. Plus the girls outnumbered the boys, so I was in the happy position that a good looking girl wanted to marry me! Having never really dated you can bet I said yes! But we had nothing in common and when I left that church the marriage ended.


This probably depends on the degree. I have held down jobs where the requirements are very clearly laid down. But I find it extremely frustrating - I have post grad qualifications and study economics and philosophy for fun, but find myself doing near-minimum wage jobs.


This is one of those things I never understand. Aspie quizzes always talk about situations that involve other people. But I have always avoided situations that involve other people, or develop strategies so that these situations will not arise.


True, but as someone who is very lonely, it is important to me to know they are there. Perhaps in the next room.


True dat.


LOL -I hadn't thought of that before, but that is true for me. I would certainly never attend a concert for fun, yet other people do.


There are ways round this. as a kid I would treat malls as a real life video game: see how quickly I could weave through a crowd without slowing down, hitting someone, or causing myself or others to rapidly change direction. It was actually a lot of fun. as far as I was concerned the other people were just blank moving obstacles.

Ahhhhh, okay. There's a lot to critique about teenage pop songs, so I could see how that was so tempting.



True dat! Parodies are often much more interesting. Have you seen the Rebecca Black's Friday parodies?

Here's the original song:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPVTl9K0lqc[/youtube]

And here's a ... more interesting version.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVlY3ZTrBkw[/youtube]

I liked the exaggerated "confused" face the vocalist gives when trying to recount the days of the week.

For my sake I am married for the second time, and this marriage has given me two beautiful children. It should be mentioned that my wife is crazy. She puts up with my ... stuff. I think she likes me.

But...

I must say, again as a sound-engineer, this is a lot better written. Not quite up my alley, but well written.


Now - this is just sick. And I just HAD to watch the outtakes, didn 't I...

Shrimpguy ftw

There is a third place to these with equal affect for me.

You're not an aspie if you can go to Restaurants without a sensory overload.

Huh?

I'm married, have kids and have always worked. But it it takes extreme effort to maintain even a semblance of stability and any "success" comes from brutally suppressing my aspie tendencies. That has created lots of other problems, a life time of serious depression among others. You might say I am the product of a self directed form of ABA. I analyzed the world around me and forced myself to adopt behaviors that allowed me to navigate a world that seems utterly foreign to my native perceptions.

I can SMS and drive but would ask people please do not try this. You are putting yourself and others at risk.

I don't have an official diagnosis yet, but there are many signs. Plus, my dads dad is an aspie and my dad has some signs.

You say and do the same things as people with ASs but when you do it-it's OK and in no way offensive, rude or boring.

True, but are all considered normal or accepted?

ruveyn

I can't do this. People don't understand and sometimes get frustrated with me over it. A.k.a. "I was waiting for you to answer...?" or "You STILL haven't sent off that text yet requesting those times?"

I'm the same on the internet - I know a lot of people multitask online; eg. they do online chat and browse forums/study at the same time. I can't do this - if I am chatting to someone on facebook or msn this is literally ALL I am doing, likewise with the forums, so when another person is doing 5 things at once and pausing between each chat response it can get very tiresome and frustrating for me, because I end up sitting and looking blankly at my computer screen while waiting for the response to come through.

If I have 800 friends on facebook does this mean I'm not AS, CR? I think the point you make about friends is valid, but I think it needs to be more specified. I'd say, if you're maintaining 50 friends by keeping in regular contact with them then you're not an aspie. I have many many people I would consider "friends" in the sense that I like them, and they seem to like me, and we enjoy spending time together (as I have over time learned the social fundamentals of how not to be annoying/offensive/unpleasant to be around), but very very few I keep in proper contact with, and none I keep in regular contact (a.k.a. once a week type contact) of my own initiative. Many people I would classify as "friend" I have only hung out with once, or have last spoken to two years ago. I classify them as a "friend" because there is strong liking but I am unable to maintain friendship on a day to day basis.

Ok let me add some (although these are more for fun, and just my opinion so obviously not the be all to end all - several of the things in this thread didn't apply to me, and I am definitely AS - I can say it with 100% certainty).

You're not aspie if you don't get "social exhaustion" (a.k.a. you get more tired than the average person after socializing). (100%)

You're not an aspie if you have never been bullied, ignored, or didn't fit in at school. (85%)

You're not an aspie if you don't have any difficulty with either sarcasm/jokes/or taking things too literally (difficulty not only meaning you are unable to get jokes/sarcasm, but maybe it takes you longer (or it needs to be more obvious) to pick up on it).

You're not an aspie if you don't have a tendency to perseverate on things (this can apply to many different contexts; you might have a "special interest", you might just have a tendency to sound like a "broken record", you may have obsessive circular thought patterns).

1. You've just hit 30 and you still care what people think of you.

2. You enjoy commercial TV , especially so "Morning shows" though their are exceptions to that rule such as Jerry Springer which is about the funniest program going on at the moment, seriously have you seen the turd sandwiches the networks are serving up , rerun after rerun of American sitcoms with a caned laugh track. Pure Pwange is totally awesome as well though that's' on our public broadcaster.


3. You prefer humans to animals.


4.Your not in to yourself.


5 You come here day in day out writing about things that are of little interest to myself or any one else for that matter, or even worse come here and read me , or most of the other boring people here , I would have though most aspergians would be more decent than that.

Would have to disagree with all of these.
I have a job- put I only manage to hold onto it because I'm actually quite good at it, my boss (most of the time) understands and tries to help, my close colleague is amazingly understanding, and I can go home at 4 and do nothing if I need to recover.

I like spending time with my family, every so often, as they have aspie traits too, and I really love them.

Concerts- I even sing in concerts on the stage. If I go to concerts, I always go to Symphony Hall, and sit right on the end of the back row.

I can't HEAR flourescent lights, but can't have the ones in my classroom on as they give me a cracking migraine.




You're not an aspie if...

-You know exactly how to deal with 2 children in your class who've fallen out and are upset.
-You can walk into a room of 30 strangers and talk to someone random. (I, on the other hand, stood outside said room for 30 minutes worrying about it, and then snuck in to sit in a corner)
-You're not so afraid of having a meltdown at work that you show no emotion at all, and then explode when you get home.
-You only wear sunglasses when it's sunny (and certainly not when it's raining)
- You stop half way through a sentence because you want to find exactly the right word for what you mean, and spend more than a minute remembering.
- You can look someone in the eyes in a conversation WITHOUT having to think about it, or even think about thinking about it.