You Might be an Aspie if...

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That is so completely me!!

Or if you are well into your 20's before you manage to train yourself NOT to run out of the house-- even though you're frying catfish-- and you still get up and leave an office building even though there was a PA announcement ten minutes ago saying they're testing the fire alarms today...

You might be an Aspie if:

You stumble upon an old primary school class photo on Facebook, and you are the only child not tagged.

You might be an aspie if the only reason you had a friend in school was someone who told you they were only your friend so they could copy off you in maths lessons.

You are definitely an aspie if that person stopped being your friend after they asked you to stop doing maths so quickly because they couldn't copy fast enough, and you ignored them.

You might be an Aspie if you refer to locations in the timeline of your life by thinking about which obsession you had during that time: "Hmm, well, that must have been during the first grade because that was when I was fascinated with cats...."

You might be an Aspie if you forget to raise your hand in class, blurt out a question that the professor doesn't know the answer to, get so interested you research it yourself when you get home, and miss your next class because you were buried in your latest haul of library books on the subject.

You might be an Aspie if your usual method of mastering a computer game involves creating spreadsheets, optimizing strategy, and editing the game's wiki.

You might be an Aspie if the guy at the coffee shop asks if you're okay when you change your usual order from "twelve ounce coffee with one cream" to "sixteen-ounce black coffee"; and when you explain that you're trying something new, he sighs because he has to re-make the coffee he already automatically made for you that day.

You might be an Aspie if you remember that your friend's house number is a prime number, but forget that she has red hair.

You might be an Aspie if your list of pet peeves includes that really annoying bumpy texture on the walls of your biology classroom.

You might be an Aspie if people around you regularly set their watches by your routine.

You might be an Aspie if you can't get your point across clearly enough.

....you can't sit in the same room as your brother because he has an annoying habit of yawning really loudly when you're least expecting it

....everyday noises distract you when you're in your bedroom, and it drives you mad

....you enjoy watching preschool entertainment on Youtube in your spare time. Actually, scratch that - I know a lot of people who sometimes like to watch their old childhood favourites.....but it's more of a regular thing with you.

....you prefer going to the jobcentre than to go clothes shopping

....you make up an excuse against every job opportunity - but it is NOT laziness, it's anxiety of meeting new people and having your routine changed

....people are laughing at you - or so you THINK. (Actually this might be more of a Social Anxiety thing)

....you don't have a nice hairstyle (I know not all Aspies don't and not all NTs do, but I'm not talking in black and white here)

you know that you are an aspie when you read the whole manual for sid meier's civilization 3 before you even played the game....and only played that game for 6 years even though civ 4 and 5 came out.

you may be an aspie when you can't figure out how mankind has reproduced for millenia knowing that humor is a selection criteria for women.

you may be an aspie if you started laughing in a physics exam because you understood a joke you've heard 4 years earlier and could not finish the said exam (even though you are a science wizz) because you couldn't stop laughing.

You might be an aspie if..
You can name how many episodes there are of your favorite tv show.
And also know the exact season that the episode you're watching aired

You might be an aspie if:
you enjoy reading instruction manuals.
you think it's odd that other people can't figure out something you find obvious even though you've explained it to them (like telling them to use Google to find information they are looking for. I had a friend who is very computer and internet literate who would call me to Google search something for her.)
you have to find patterns in things
you are bothered by bathroom tiles that do not follow the pattern or you think they shouldn't go together because the pieces don't line up nice and neat.
you explore every tab and button on a Facebook game and can tell more experienced players where to find stuff even though you just began playing.

...if you line up the cigarette butts in the ashtray.

....when somebody says they're going to Ann Summer's party, you say, ''who is Ann Summers?''

....if you're 21 and you still think your teddies are alive

OOOOOHHHHhhhhh! So THAT'S Ann Summers! I get it now !

but I'm a Yank, so that doesn't count, right? ..... and, they're not?

...if you feel like arguing with a waitress about the faulty logic behind her asking more than once if you want a beverage with your meal (?)