Your child has Aspergers if...

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LOL, this is a great thread!

You know your kid is an aspie if...

...when the bell rings for recess, your kid isn't nearly one-tenth as excited as his classmates to go out and play. He/she would much rather solve math questions or do crosswords.

...if your child's speech sounds like it came out of a university textbook, at age four.

...he/she takes to memorizing all the planet's names, their moon's names, how far they are from the sun in light years and in miles, the main gases in their atmosphere, where their names come from, how many earth days they take to go circle the sun,....and insist on sharing that knowledge with your close friends when they come over for dinner.

Your child may have Aspergers if he can memorize the lyrics to a song that was written in Brazil...in 1934!

Your child may have Aspergers if he talks like Bob Dylan.

Well, how can I express my relief knowing there is an actual site like this for AS people. Another translation for me, for AS that is, will be "Acutely Super" and I really enjoyed the posts sharing their experiences with loved ones, and themselves...
For many years I was puzzled by my son's behaviour, he seemed special from the getgo, but I always thought it was because he was so physically handsome and striking...people would stop me on the street and ask if he was a Ralph Lauren child model when he was a toddler, and beyond. He also developed verbal skills quite early...could memorize easily things off the television or car radio, parrot them back, yet be clumsy with puzzles and take forever to tie his shoes, so methodical that it would drive me bananas...ah well...I am NOT here to go down memory lane with you, just want all of you to know how happy I am that I think I am in the right place to learn, learn learn, without being judged or put down, and really I appreciate all your openness and humour. It's going to take some time with me to open up, because I am still taking baby steps on how to help my son...I found out too late what was the source of all his frustrations and being labeled a misfit by others, a reclusive child by insensitive teachers, bullied by the brutish kids...and he was a gem of a person, to boot...ahhhh, well, best of luck to you all, I look forward to sharing...Love you!

If she relates boy trouble to an old German play (Frühlings Erwachen and the musical it spawned, to be exact).

You might be an Aspie if you freak out because it might snow on the day you have class because it throws your routine off AND you can't finish your experiment so you can analyze it with the infrared spectrometer and the NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance imaging... a small MRI machine for molecules) because analyzing molecules is so where it's at.

You might be an aspie if the best present you've gotten is a kit to build molecules and you could sit all day doing that.

-If he cries (at 11yo) if he can't find his favorite toy Transformer, or one of his DS games, or his sleeping companion horse, Prime.
-If he'd rather watch How it's Made, or History channel than cartoons, unless it's Transformers or Bakugan.
-If he can take that radio apart and put it back together, but can't wash his own hair in the bathtub.
-If he met a neighborhood child that is 5 years younger than him and calls him "my best friend" but can't tell you the child's name.
-If the only children that he is friends with are kids that will transform Transformers with him, or will watch him play his DS.

Number 15 was totally me.