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23 Jan 2013, 9:06 pm

You may be an aspie if

a friend tells you "I wish I had a desert eagle on my back" and your first reply is "why would you want a desert bird on your back and since when do eagles have a desert-speciffic genus?"

True story here!



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23 Jan 2013, 9:45 pm

...you always commute to & from work or school by bus and the same bus drivers you see give you the "stink-face" every time you board the bus.

...you are a bicyclist and are the only bicyclist who wears a bicycle helmet every time you ride your bike.


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24 Jan 2013, 12:04 am

jetbuilder wrote:
You might be an aspie if you're the only one working while all of your coworkers are standing around talking and you don't mind because they aren't around you.


Happens all the time, I refuse to participate in idle chit chat while at work.



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24 Jan 2013, 12:40 am

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Some content borrowed from http://www.geocities.com/autistry/YMBAAI.html

Yes, this is another knockoff of Jeff Foxworthy's "You might be a Redneck".

You might be an Aspie if...

...you knew at the beginningof our freshman year that you weren't going to the senior prom.

...by the time the prom came, they couldn't have paid you a million dollars to go to the prom

....if the word "logic" goes right to your heart but the word "love" usually bounces off of it.

...if it takes you 3 times as long to decide if it's safe drive through an intersection as it does a normal person.

...if people behind you at intersections thoroughly hate you.

...if people told you you drive like a granny when you were 23 years old

....In Sunda School, you find the representations of the ark as a boat, with a keel and all, very irritating, when the Bible clearly describes the ark as a big rectangular box

....you don't think an aspie board would be very authentic without some argumentative pontificating, I defend argumentative pontificating because I myself am prone to such. Although, I am only trying to be factual and helpful.

...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.

…you're disappointed that the latest close-approaching meteor is not, after all, going to hit Earth because you've been fascinated by cataclysms and catastrophism ever since you first saw "When Worlds Collide" and it scared the bejeebers out of you, and you really want to see what a real cataclysm would be like

....you insist on your view on fairness even when anyone else thinks you have gone mad

....you constantly forget taking the trash out even if you walk past it all the time because it isn't on your mental agenda of things to do.

...if your brain decides to take a leave when ever you are asked to do an unpleasant task.

...your science teachers often let you hold their classes because you knew better anyway.

...you consider the pleasantries of others just a waste of time.

...ifF you have dreams of communicating with extraterrestrials and nightmares about chatting with the next-door neighbour.

...you would rather have your liver pecked out by a giant crow than spend a day at the mall.

...You gave up on ever convincing people that you are not odd ages ago. You now just live your life and to hell with anyone who thinks it strange.

...you're known for a large number of unusual pets. 10 additional points if these pets are creatures that make NTs squeamish like rats, snakes, ferrets, or lizards. 20 additional points if you have more than 5.

...you take apart computers or other electronics for fun. 10 additional points if you started doing this before you were five years old.

...if you consider your driving an insurance risk

...if you forgot how to divide every summer break in school

...your hands are always covered in burns, cuts and scars, and the only ones you noticed getting are the really spectacular ones, but they never hurt anyway.


by Sean:
...if your neighbors come to your door needing help with their computer at all hours of the night

...if you help them with their computer problems at all hours of the night

...if the only reason anybody from high school knew who you were is because you have a popular sibling

...if your high school librarian knew you better than your classmates

...if anyone ever started a rumor that you were going to be on Jeopardy!

...if you're in class and everybody wants to sit by you for help with thier work but you can't get your own work done in time to save your life

...if you've ever frequented a fast food resturant and the people there ask you if "you want the usual?"


If any of you can think of some, POST IT!
For those of you who don't know who Jeff Foxworthy is,http://www.jefffoxworthy.com/homepage.shtml


Oh, I just love your avatar. *sarcasm* I'm glad you think that burning the American flag is cool, because I sure as hell don't.



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24 Jan 2013, 11:46 pm

Your friend tells you her first impression if you is she thought you were autistic.
Then you try to think what your first impression was of her but realize it was "person I do not know". Then you realize that is your first impression of everyone.


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25 Jan 2013, 5:47 am

...you keep yourself so busy with your special interest/obsession that you first have a "Hell, it's almost 3AM!?" moment, tell yourself "Just 10 more minutes and then I'm going to sleep" but in fact it's 5AM when you stop doing what you were doing and get some rest. Alternatively you fall asleep while enjoying your special interest. True story, both happened to me, the latter one is rare though (thanks goodness), I can't stand too many autosaves of one and the same file, that's not really useful if something went awfully wrong and I like to experiment a lot. :lol:


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25 Jan 2013, 5:55 am

... if reading the comments of the last episode of your stupid french soap on Youtube, you find a person writing TANKS ♥ (instead of thanks... remember "french soap" => french people => bad english) AND you can't help answering : "wow it's so uncommon to find people among the Plus Belle la Vie (name of the soap) fans with such a strong love for armoured combat vehicles... ! !!" :D



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25 Jan 2013, 5:58 am

Sylvastor wrote:
...you keep yourself so busy with your special interest/obsession that you first have a "Hell, it's almost 3AM!?" moment, tell yourself "Just 10 more minutes and then I'm going to sleep" but in fact it's 5AM when you stop doing what you were doing and get some rest. Alternatively you fall asleep while enjoying your special interest.


:D The story of my life when my Nightside is activated.



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25 Jan 2013, 1:12 pm

I wonder what would happen if this thread was on 4chan...



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25 Jan 2013, 1:13 pm

You start nervously laughing at your mom when she is describing something bad that happened to her and she doesn't seem to notice because you do it all the time. Then you catch yourself doing it, apologize and then fake the correct emotion of empathy.

You walk away confused on exactly how to be "yourself" in that situation.



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25 Jan 2013, 3:14 pm

Sylvastor wrote:
...you keep yourself so busy with your special interest/obsession that you first have a "Hell, it's almost 3AM!?" moment, tell yourself "Just 10 more minutes and then I'm going to sleep" but in fact it's 5AM when you stop doing what you were doing and get some rest. Alternatively you fall asleep while enjoying your special interest. True story, both happened to me, the latter one is rare though (thanks goodness), I can't stand too many autosaves of one and the same file, that's not really useful if something went awfully wrong and I like to experiment a lot. :lol:

"I really should get ready for bed."

An hour later: "OK, for real this time."

An hour later: "OK, time for bed."

An hour later: "Gah, it's what time??"



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27 Jan 2013, 10:58 pm

...if you were told every year that you could be skipped if you could fix your "maturity issues"
...if you stood up in the middle of class and screamed at your 5th grade teacher that it is pronounced FU-JI, not FI-JI. Fuji is the mountain, Fiji is an island.
...if your mother adores your high vocabulary so much that she begs you to speak in "that high language" on a daily basis. Meanwhile, your older sister hates it, and your friends have no idea what you said.
...your friends use you as a reference when filling out the mandatory five vocabulary list for English.
...when you have more of a problem with overwriting than underwriting.
...when you sigh in class because you've already read that book, already learned that event in history, or already knew that "unusual" fact about it.
...you recognize the cars on the roads so well that you can just laugh and say "I saw you yesterday" to all of them.
...when you love snakes, turtles, fish, ferrets, and anything rodentlike a little more than dogs. when you get old, you will also have a pet jellyfish.
...you and your father get off on pointing out all the flaws of a movie and predicting the plot.
...You will avoid an empty cash register just to go to the U-scan. If the store doesn't have a u-scan, you will freak out.
...you read Roots when you were ten in a day. You saw the TV missionaries and were pissed at how much of the book they had cut, such as George's childhood training with the chickens.
...Your parents laugh when you say you will order something new at a restaurant. You really try, but somehow you still end up ordering the pepperoni pizza.
...your mother is always telling you to look up at people. at least she doesn't yell at you about it anymore.
...you pick your clothes first on how they feel, then on the fit, then on the color. Who cares if it's stylish?
...you sit in boring places feeling things like your pants, your cashmere sweater, or the underside of your mother's leather coat and can totally zone out.
...colorblocking and mismatched fashion becoming stylish has made you a style icon at school.
...if it has the numbers 1, 2, 3, 6 in it, you will memorize it forever.
...your parents yell at you for sitting in your room all day playing on the computer.
...if you ask for help you're either in danger of dying or really have no idea what is going on.
...You convince people your crazy so you can just save time.
...You make weird sounds going down the stairs and have to look the whole time.
...You've argued with your Japanese exchange student over the pronunciation of a Japanese word and been proven to be right.
...You have an incredibly long list of quirks that you could go on and on and on and on....strangers waiting, up and down the boulevard....damn it!



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28 Jan 2013, 5:19 pm

When you tend to think like Haruhi or guilty of having her personality! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbAIxCE_NlI[/youtube]


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28 Jan 2013, 5:32 pm

jetbuilder wrote:
You might be an aspie if you're the only one working while all of your coworkers are standing around talking and you don't mind because they aren't around you.


You must have a very kind boss then. Where I work we are not allowed to stand around talking, we must get our work done. Last month me and a few others finished 20 minutes before it was time to go, and we sat in the staff canteen and chatted, waiting for time. Then we got reported for doing that and almost got the sack, so now we've got to find small tasks to do whilst waiting for time.


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28 Jan 2013, 6:45 pm

...you always use a big vocabulary which annoys everyone.


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28 Jan 2013, 8:22 pm

Mother's favorite sentence was "Look people in the face when you talk to them"
You remember being smacked for not looking people in the face when you were little.

You asked if you could have an old wind up alarm clock that wouldn't work any more when you were ten.
You stripped down the clock asked the man next door to resolder a link arm, reassembled the clock which worked just fine and did not understand why your mother threw it in the bin.


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