You Might be an Aspie if...

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If you're fascinated with patterns and they stick out everywhere.
If you have OCD.
If you have anxiety.
If you count objects.
If you manipulate objects spatially.
If you are good at math.
If you have a high vocabulary.
If you step inside the concrete slabs in the city.
If you listen to the same song 100 times.
If you twist your fingers.
If you pick at your skin.
If you contort your body.
If you repeat yourself.
If you have a blank stare.
If you are socially awkward.
If you can focus for long periods of time.
If you have fast or many thoughts.
If you are motivated.
If you love video games.
If you love legos.
If you love computers and technology more than people.
If you are romantically inexperienced.
If you are intelligent.
If you can remember conversations.
If you want to grow up and eventually live in a cabin in Montana or on a sail boat.
If you like business or entrepreneurship.
If you think abstractly.
If you are a libertarian.
If you hate authority.
If you wear the same clothes.
If you eat the same foods.
If you have addiction issues.
If you're secretly a 6 year old kid.
If you're good at logic.
If you correct people's mistakes.
If you don't get sarcasm.
If you're solipsistic.
If you're depressed.
If you're a pessimist.
If you're a nihilist.
If you're an atheist.
If you always wanted to be a scientist.

English is only mostly phonetic, no matter the country: we have too many loan words, let alone the 'exceptions that prove the rules'.

haven't finished reading yet, so I'm sorry if it's already been said, but:

if you had to hand-write all your essays, because the mistakes Microsoft word forced on you gave you a headache
and
if you could write the essay you hand in, without checking your notes or writing a draft copy, because your knowledge base is that organised.
even though your bank of personal memory is so full of holes you can't remember when or how you learned it all.


If you read published books, poke holes in the plots, figure out how to word them more effectively, and start to write it all up before realising that something else is far more interesting.

if, after the teacher puts an example math problem on the board to show you how to solve it, you figure it out before the teacher does.
and because your favourite seat happens to be at the front of the class, you get up and correct her before you realise that you're doing so
and you're actually proud of it.


.... it took me a while to realise that the other kids were laughing at me for that one, but it got me moved up another level in maths, so I actually had a challenge.

as for focusing for extended periods of time on what may people consider tedious activities, does sorting beads without drinking, eating, sleeping, attending to hygiene or even moving more than necessary for three days straight count?

Funnily enough only two of these apply to me.

You might be an Aspie...

...if you're 23 years old and you wish restaurant plates had dividers so your different foods wouldn't touch.

...if you're 23 years old and still can't understand how other people are okay with having different foods on a plate touch. (Seriously. This food is covered in BBQ sauce, and this is applesauce right next to it. There's a reason I don't eat BBQ apples- stop making such different foods touch!)

...if it took you years to finally try eating salads, since they tend to involve a mix of different foods that you usually eat in very specific ways. (For example, when I eat a leaf of romaine, 1- I eat the green leafy parts 2- I peel this thin layer off the stem 3- eat the thin layer, then finally, 4- I eat the stem.)

...if when eating around others, you tend to laugh off your weird method of eating before someone else can point it out and make you feel awkward. "Haha, yeah, I always eat in a weird way, but whatever!"

....you refuse to take a job in a town where your favourite bus doesn't go to.

....phonecalls are hard for you to make - unless you are phoning up the bus depot to ask where your favourite bus-driver is because he hasn't been driving it for a few weeks.

....you have found so many different pictures of familiar bus-drivers on your bus on the internet that you can't decide which one to have as your background on your laptop, so you have a slideshow background of all your collection of pictures of buses.

....you are so obsessed with your bus, but if somebody asked you all the bus times on the route throughout the day, you're like ''eeerrmmmmmm.....'' and have to take a few minutes to work out, or get out the bus timetable.

Fairly similar applies to other Aspies, except replacing ''buses'' with your special interest.

I don't really like pizza that much but if I have it at home I usually eat the toppings off first, then the cheese, then lick off the sauce, then eat the bottom part, using a fork to get the soft parts off if the bottom of the crust is hard. The hard crust doesn't get eaten.

I have a routine very similar to yours. I used to not eat the edge-crust, but now I include it just after licking off sauce. I then try to eat the hard bottom of the crust and save the soft, chewy, top part for the very last. It looks very unusual to others, but mmm, it's really good. I also eat the toppings one type at a time. Like, all onions, then all green peppers, then all red peppers, etc.

You might be an Aspie if, when your four-year-old "dinosaur" of a cell phone finally stops working, you fear going to get a new one because it means you'll have to figure out an entirely new set-up.

(Happened to me last year. It did give me the opportunity get unlimited data & text, but take "talk minutes" out of my plan to save some money though, since I hate talking on the phone.)

You might be an Aspie if you're relatively young, yet treat new forms of technology like a crotchety old person and dread the fact that as technology progresses, you WILL inevitably have to get used to, then give up, system after system after system. Stupid constant (although eventually beneficial) change...

Exactly and I'm 23.

I still can't eat salads if they contain certain foods and especially not if they are covered in sauce or oil. Other foods that fall into a similar category are hamburgers and sandwiches where different foods are mixed and touch each other and even if you try to pick them apart, they already are contaminated by other flavours.

...if persons who know you already know how to cook for you (given they like to cook).

...if persons who know you are not bothered by your eating habits, likes and dislikes.

...your teacher commands every one in the room to pair-off to discuss a topic and you are extremely relieved that no one wants to be your partner

I hate partner activities! Whenever we had a group activity and were instructed to select a partner, I'd always just sit there avoiding eye contact when everyone else paired up withe ease.

You might be an Aspie if you have to take a second to calculate how long you should microwave something so it will be thoroughly cooked by the time you stop it on your favorite number.

You might be an Aspie if you spend five minutes writing and editing a post but only two minutes on a statistic problem from an upper division college class.

You might be an Aspie if you have your own custom radio station playing in your head 24/7/365.25.

You might be a paranoid Aspie if you constantly wonder if the NTs around you can hear said radio station.

You might be an Aspie if you have a subscription to Netflix just so you can watch all of the documentaries on tornadoes and serial killers.

Now to get back to reading through the rest of the thread...

...you get all het up because you have edited your post to correct mistakes and the internet has cut off just before you submit it again, and you're getting all het up because of the fear of people reading your posts with the mistakes in, or even quoting your post and it's got all the mistakes in (I like my posts to look presentable, just like NTs like themselves to look presentable when they go out)

...you're so addicted to WP that you get into a rage when the internet connection keeps cutting off for no reason and you're almost on the floor wailing with frustration (end you end up with an ache in your mouth from so much whining and shouting)

...you're always on the verge of smashing up the router when the internet keeps disconnecting itself - and your mum is on the verge of doing the same thing but only because of you're temper over it is giving her stress

You know you're an aspie when no one wants to watch the Harry Potter movies with you because you constantly note every little detail that's different than the book and keep saying how the books are so much better than the movies.

And when you get weird looks when you say the special effects in the books are better.

Also when you read a book and later see the movie version of it, but can't really decide if it was based on the book you read because they changed it so much and it differs so much from what you were seeing in your head. (It was much better in your head.)

Lol, yep, the people at the Borders Books coffee shop knew my dad and I by name

And, you might be an aspie if you can beat Mr. Spock at Star Trek trivia,

If you drive all your friends nuts pointing out all the inconsistencies between Star Trek episodes,

If all your "you might be an aspie" jokes have something to do with Star Trek, or [fill in utterly unrelated obsessive interest here].

If you know more about Asperger syndrome than everyone in your college psych class... including the teacher. (That one, sadly, is true.)