You Might be an Aspie if...

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You're watching a movie and you have a hard time following the plot and dialogue, but you amuse yourself by picking apart all of the inaccuracies and overplayed tropes.

You are casually doing something but then you accidentally start obsessing over it for days.

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A get-together gets cancelled and you feel TREMENDOUS relief.

YES.

^ thirded!

And even more, if your obsession only involves you and does not require anyone else...
+If you cannot refrain from counting every object around you (stairs, gaps btw the floorboards, people, tiles...)

You start making craft creations and the next thing you know, you have 50 of the same thing completed.

You check reviews for a movie and find it annoying that people are talking more about which actors are in it, how much it lacks originality and whether or not things make sense in the movie than about the actual plot, and you only care about the latter as you just want to be entertained and know what the movie is about and what it can be compared with.

You hate it when people assume that all aspies are excellent at math, because you hate it, you have always done poorly at it, and may even have mathlexia. You were able to read before you even knew how to walk, but looking at algebra makes your brain turn to jelly. And if you're actually able to solve a math problem in your head you're amazed and proud you didn't even need a calculator to figure it out.

You're female and don't wear makeup because you not only hate the feeling of cosmetics on your face, but because recently you've heard that it's supposed to make you look like you want sex. And that's the *last* thing you want to look like, ever.

You talk about your favorite fictional characters as if they're real and know more about them than you do about real people in your life.

You have left a store without buying anything simply because there are over 10 people in line and only two cashiers working.

You're female and you've heard that there are other women who think they can't last a week without wearing makeup, and you think how wearing makeup every day for one whole week would be a challenge for you.

Whenever you try to clean up a mess it just seems to get messier.

You're very afraid of making mistakes and looking like an idiot in front of other people, and you have trouble doing something simple you've done maybe a million times, like use the ATM only, because your brother is standing there watching you and giving you instructions as if you've never used a bank machine in your life.

You're very annoyed that YouTube keeps recommending you videos from the beauty and fashion section. You've only watched and enjoyed maybe one video from that section and it was how to paint little black mustaches on your fingernails.

Your dolls are more fashionably dressed than you are.

The only time you actually make a huge effort with clothing and makeup is at Halloween or cosplaying at a geek convention.

You find it distressing when you see a typo in an otherwise well-written post or article on the internet.

You feel really annoyed when people get confused with writing "your" and "you're", or "there", "their" and "they're", but don't seem to be a bad speller otherwise.

You get really uncomfortable when people forget to close the bracket in a post. So frustrating!

You hate Rihanna's song "Work" so much, when you hear it you feel like finding her and punching her. (Probably unrelated to AS, but this thread is just for fun, not to be taken too literally).

You talk on and on about a topic you are interested in long after those you are speaking to have lost intetest without any idea that they have.

most of your friends are "internet" friends.

- If you change your dinner plans because the microwave is unplugged, or the frying pan is dirty

- when you order pizza you order "2 for 1 special", or extra large because that way you won't have to decide what to eat the next day or 2 and you wont have to deal with another delivery person for next day or 2

- if completing the first step in a multi step tasks feels like a big victory which in turn distracts you from the next step.

- if the idea that "everyone is entitled to an opinion" offends you if someone applies it to something objective, because facts matter

- if you enjoy stand up comedians not just because they can be funny, but also because the 'exaggerations' they use to make the joke seem like an accurate depiction of reality rather than an exaggeration.

- if human interactions on tv shows and movies make more sense than real life interactions,

and bonus points: if you are more likely to identify with a fictional charcters with personality oddities (sherlock holmes, house, and The Doctor from Dr Who for example) than real life people.

Triple bonus if the death of a tv charcter you liked, or canceling of a show you liked can bring more of an emotional response than the death of someone you knew socially (outside of close friends and family).

- if a friend loses a loved one and your response is more intellectual, than emotional even though you do feel badly for them. And the typical platitudes "sorry for your loss" sound hollow. If they say "at least their in a better place" to you it sounds completely moronic.

- if friends come to you for problem solving their personal issues because they trust your rational process more than their emotional one.

- If the phrase "2 is company, 3 is crowd" doesnt have anything to do with romance for you and instead applies to any social interactions

- if drunk people make you uncomfortable because they become too unpredictable

- if you are more comfortable with stoners because they are so chill and calm.

- if you have been kicked out of church for telling the preacher all the flaws with literal interpretations of the bible.

- if your trust a person is 100% absolute. Right up until they do even a small thing you percieve as a challenge to that trust. In which case it goes from 100% to 0% as you now doubt everything about them.

Disclaimer: newly discovered I am ND so still figuring out which traits are actually ASD.

I can relate to this, haha!

- you get bad grades on an assignment because the instructions aren't clear enough.
- you hate the sound that your ears make when putting earplugs into them.
- you have trouble sleeping because you feel your heartbeat in your whole body.
- you are obsessed with statistics and constantly wants to share statistics with others...

You get anxious if you don't get out of work dead on time your shift ends, because you are eager to get home and nap while the house is still quiet (napping is my way of relaxing, sort of like a meditation thing).

You wish your boyfriend didn't have three children, (even though you do like them).

You are feeling panicked because it's the start of the summer holidays and so everywhere will be crowded for the next 7 weeks.