You Might be an Aspie if...

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If you stim with your fingers while making sound effects

You get so absorbed in your special interest that you don't notice that the house is on fire.

If you're sitting just talking to one person, that's okay. As soon as more people arrive it's time for you to disappear.

You have holes where you tried to cut out the tags of clothing.

Gosh, I thought everybody does. I do 'cause I bought piece by piece.

You know you might be an Aspie if

"You know you’re an aspie if,"

I agree with your point about sports. However, does it always stay like that and co ordination gets worse or do average mental capabilities improve unless you have acute anxiety attacks etc. that debilitate you?
I understand the concept of religion, more than driving because of motor and spatial difficulties.
Reading as an imaginary resource is useful if you have a strong visual field which some milder Aspieminds do.

Also, there is a lot of similarities between NVLD and As, as both are on the mild end of the autism spectrum.
But I often think aspies are in a mind of their own just as autistics have that same habit.
They often can’t control outbursts whereby an aspie, will drawl until withdrawing from conversation that doesn’t interest them. I’m describing obsessive interests that pull you away from socialising normally and publicly with others.
Most only trust their very nearest and dearest, and autistics tend to be slightly more naïve and gullible.
Not that it has any bearing on who does what with their life.

Perhaps you have to learn to curb some of your own endearments before you calve yourself off to the many
so called treatment services that ‘listen’ to people. Not that learning about others with different conditions is an issue health practices.

In my country, the help with social care is getting worse, what with the under funding on care services, I.e. daycentres and paying carer s enough money, which the N.HS are constantly getting short circuited by.
Parents are normally not aware of the impact of social exclusion when the help to access these services whether on the phone or in person, are not made available.

dude that happens to me all the time lol. i had no idea that was an aspie thing until now

If you dance around or sing for no apparent reason.
If you have fantasy and fantasy rpg pictures on your bedroom walls.
If you are obsessed with something to the point where you almost forget to eat or sleep.
If you have a peculiar way of communicating and/or an unusual vocabulary.

...if you goto your neighbor's house not to visit them but to visit their dog.

i do this all the time

...if you're told you are rude because you simply say what comes to mind.
...when you realize someone was being sarcastic, only when you replay the conversation in your mind hours later as you're lying in bed. Then you panic because you finally understand, and think of all the ways you wish you could have responded instead of sounding like Spock.
...if you have a meltdown in Lowe's because there are simply too many options.
...if you rejoice when your town freezes over because you don't have to leave your house for days on end.
...if you're relieved that a social plan gets cancelled. But only relieved if it's long enough in advance so that you can readjust to the change after prepping for it for so long.
...if you've given up on trying to explain how your mind works, because it's just not worth it.

If you follow groups of people around, trying to befriend them, and you creep them out.

I used to do that when I was little, but instead of random people it was mostly the kids at my [extremely short-lived] elementary school.
If you can natter on for hours about the most random things that only you seem to find interesting.
If you think that cats are Aspergian.

...if you don't recognize someone you've worked with for three years because
a) They got a haircut or died their hair
b) They just got glasses
c) You saw them at the grocery store and you're not used to seeing them there

I used to work in a factory where every body wore sun glasses yellow shirts and hats/caps - for the life of me I could never recognise anyone out of work - out of their work clothes!

There are different Aspies, that much is clear but voicing what’s been said, the prep of anxiety awaits no prejudice is like saying Buzz Lightyear was only the third man on the moon, and preplanning your steps if you got the thought processes wrong.
In regard to Aspie females, we tend to be the stronger sex in fairly evening out vocabulary in a heightened way and judging by a males perspective, they tend to come over as quite immature when a non intelligible approach comes forward to ‘mime’ or ‘correct’ our species in telling us what to do all the time.

Adding to the list, would definitely include OCD, depressive and other neurological disorders of the nervous system, standing behind someone too close so you can interpret their meanings or if you’ve become partially cognitively impaired of hearing or other, and need the added discomfort of ‘listening in’, and half the time, you’re told you don’t listen to the other person, you don’t move forwards with the times or are being stuck as a time lord in a retro galaxy than focuses more on the current ethos of technology than just merely ‘being.’

I could go on, but a preoccupied or static mind only occurs if a few minor delays stop the inevitable from speaking some sense when emotions hold fewer boundaries than keeping yourself from handling ‘normal’ things in the said mandatory way or the only way you know how. Fitting in is not an option if you have you climb over many hurdles and fences to get there. Explaining yourself is not an option and neither is trusting yourself.

If a language or sensory delay was responsible for your state of being or being brought up, it can’t help making vast sense of the facts that some other people who are basically neurotypical ignore.