You Might be an Aspie if...

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Did they do this with Bill Gates or Steve Jobs I wonder

I was treated as a dumb dumb for not thinking like everybody else

You have no friends , and it really bugs you have have to pretend you do .

I always did projects my own way, but never got any sort of recognition for it. Then I remember there being a drawing contest for something in 5th grade, so I decided to try what everyone else usually did- copy whatever the template was. So I managed to copy (not trace! But see a picture and copy perfectly) two characters from illustrations in a book we were using...

... Again, I got no recognition for it. Turns out that was the ONE project that rewarded creativity. Ohh, I was pissed off...

^^^^

who is that in your avatar it's been on my mind for a while now

Mine? It's me, haha. With my "Nerdy is Cute" shirt and showing off my coffee mug from a chainstore called Wawa.


... You know you're an Aspie when your favorite shirt says "Nerdy is Cute"... and everyone you know says it's perfect for you!

-When you absentmindedly start reading the brochures behind the athletic trainer's desk instead of making eye contact, and they proceed to tell you that you weren't making eye contact...

-When you listening to an emotionally charged campaign speech for student government and barely react, while most of your classmates are moved close to tears...

-When you spend six hours reading something fascinating, only to realize that you have school starting at 8AM tomorrow and it's 5AM.

-When you find going to homecoming more daunting than reading about string theory.

-You are in town and you see a really nice friend and you hide, for no apparent reason.

-If you are running errands and take longer than expected, your family just assumes you stopped by the bookstore and lost track of time. They also know what you got to drink there, and what books you were looking at. Of course, they know which bookstore, also.

-You panic if you wake up in the morning and realize you ran out of bananas and yogurt, which you eat every single day. You stand aimlessly in the kitchen for a long time, trying to figure out what to do. You flap your arms in despair.

-People say things like, "Wow, it's kind of like an encyclopedia in there, isn't it," meaning in your head. They don't appear to to mean this as a compliment, but you are flattered anyway.

-You sit front and center in any science related class, so you won't miss a thing. You are in the absolute back of any class at the gym. The aerobics teachers occasionally tease about how uncoordinated you are.

-Step aerobics is WAY harder than chemistry. And way less fun.

-Clipping your fingernails feels overwhelming, you dread it for days before you do it. This is not because it is uncomfortable to clip them, and in fact, having long nails, even a few millimeters, makes you feel crazy. None of this makes sense to you.

-Conversely, spending hours at work trying to save the life of an unstable patient and solve complex medical riddles related to her condition is not overwhelming. It is strangely calming, it's why you stay at your job.

...You look around the restaurant you're eating at and notice others gesturing wildly with their hands and looking at others in the eye while talking, and wonder to yourself, "How do they do that??"

You go to the bank to get a loan, and you can't figure out why the loan office doesn't know more about one of your favorite subjects...............compound interest!

You poured over all the old "You might be an aspie if..." topics to see what you posted last time to make sure you didn't repeat the same one.

"You might be an aspie if you have ever flash frozen a neighbor's pet"- lol if you don't remember this one don't ask

You don't know why you come here on WP, or do you ?

I don't know why I came here. I was just browsing around on Google about AS and I wanted to write something about my own personal experiences with AS, and a topic in WP came up and I clicked on it and the thread was just what I wanted to post about, so I quickly signed in, not expecting to become a member or not even intending to, I just wasn't thinking (which is why I have such a random nickname, it wasn't a planned nickname and if I knew I was going to become a member I would've chosen something else), and after a couple of months I found myself as a full-blown member.

you score in the lowest possible category in the Cambridge face recognition test and you have to apologize mid conversation as the person thinks there is someone behind them because you are looking everywhere but their face. That was my day

That would be me, also. ...

You get teased for the above. Or looks of when you say that your favourite subjects are maths and science.

...when as a 12 year old, a Christmas present from your parents was a book on Forensics / crime scene investigation. Most books I own are either music, forensics or sport.

...you mention on Facebook about being in London over the weekend. Your friend says that if you're in London on Thursday, (which I'm not, sadly) there's an Autism event going on which you might be interested in.

This. Yes.

You know you're an Aspie when ...

... instead of being interested in makeup and boys like all the other girls in your class, you were interested in mathematics, propaganda from Nazi Germany and Tommy Salo (former ice-hockey goaltender from Sweden).

... customers at work think you sound a bit like a robot and like you're reading a script.