You Might be an Aspie if...

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If you tend to be in some other world i.e. dream-like state.

If you try to make friends by giving people long boring speeches about your special interests, and the other person quickly gets bored and walks away.

If you're told that the holiday meal will be at your house this year and you spend more time planning your excuses and escape routes than making a list of what you want for Christmas.

You dislike small children because of their energy, nonsense and noise. But you love watching films with small children in.

You love watching preschool programs on YouTube.

Three days a week of work is still stressful for you.

You're the only one out of your NT peers who chooses to work part time.

You're dating a man 20+ years older than you because you like 70s music and having cosy nights in at weekends because you get tired.

Everyone at work are excited about a work colleague's wedding and most of them are going, but you don't understand how they can be so excited about something that's so daunting to you.

You spend most of your free time napping, whilst having Creepypasta stories playing on YouTube. It's just a way of relaxing to you.

When you are 20 but feel 60.

When you are 15 and feel 60!

If you make unusual mannerisms during conversations whereby the other person(s) looks at you oddly.

If you have a flat voice.

If you're asked to read aloud a bar joke in a group and, with a straight face, conclude with "I don't get it."

Have you ever noticed how different cats and dogs actually are? Dogs are usually 'BARK! BARK! BARK! Oh, what's this thing?! I'm going to sniff it and bark at it!' whereas cats are usually 'Hmm...this seems interesting. I'm going to sniff it and then lie in the sun on a blanket.'

You listen to the same song for hours.

If you get angry at memes because of the inevitable intentional typo.

(it IS intentional, you know. We learned to do that in psychology of advertising class back in 99-00 when I got my first degree. If you include a typo/grammatical error people will do a double take, look at the ad/meme/whatever longer, take in more of it, and be more compelled to comment on it and sometimes even click it and/or share it just to complain about it. It's 100% on purpose. And that makes me so angry!)

Yep, this was explained not in relation to print advertising of course, which thankfully seems ot have better morals or whatever than online advertising. This was when I was getting my degree in web design back then. It was in the context of making webpages that contain advertisements which you want to make appealing to people so they will click on them and complete the up-sell. Definitely were 100% told to include a typo or grammatical error, whether using "your" instead of "you're" or putting in a random start quote mark without an ending one or whatever. This was straight-up meant for online entrepreneurial type advertising though.