You Might be an Aspie if...
Oh, and....
-- You don't like the rules of punctuation in use today because they're misleading, particularly with the use of quotes.
"That's not what I said," explained Catalyst. <-- wrong
"There was no comma in what I said", he insisted. <-- right, no matter what the rest of the world says.
You spend 2.5 hours going though this entire thread because you're obsessed, pick out everything that pertains to yourself, copy and paste it into an Excel spreadsheet, code it to become a bullet-point list and post it for the sheer enjoyment of doing so.
- 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
- 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.
- you consider the pleasantries of others just a waste of time.
- 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.
- 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.
- you might be an aspie if you think it would be okay to wear the same clothes today as you did yesterday...even though you slept in them too
- You might be an Aspie if you want to bow down and worship whoever invented the U-scan at WalMart...
- You know you're an Aspie if you want to scream at anyone who posts in this thread thinking that 'your' is the proper contraction for 'you are'...
- You might be an Aspie if you feel the need to point out that the original phrase was not "you're an Aspie" at all.
- You might be an Aspie if you'd rather stay home and listen to Oldies, than go to a Britney Spears concert and deal with a bunch of screaming girls
- if you can hear the water dripping in the sink in the other room, but you don't notice the person sitting next to you is speaking to you.
- you put music in alphabetical order but the rest of your room is in disarray.
- you can carry on a conversation by using nothing but movie quotes or song lyrics.
- in English class your teacher anouced the next book you will be reading and you raised your hand and told him "But I read that one already," and proceded to recite the book from the begining.
- you have done marthon RISK, Monopoly, model building, TV watching, video game playing, reading, and/or electronics "maitnace" for upwards of eleven hours without leaving your chair once.
- you went online for five minutes to check an e-mail and are still there five hours later
- you responded to a colleague announcing they were pregnant by saying 'was it planned?' whilst everyone else was saying 'congratulations', 'when's it due?'
- other kids at school only spoke to you when they needed to know the answer to a question in class
- all your cd's have to be the right way up in their cases
- You might be an aspie if you know how to replace hardware and troubleshoot in your computer, but can't figure out how to check your voicemail on your cell phone.
- you are perfectly content spending your Friday night in front of the computer on the internet.
- you honestly can't tell any difference between the supposed "cool" glasses and the alleged "uncool" glasses in the "should have gone to SpecSavers" ads......
- If you have actually read the dictionary from cover to cover.
- your puppy knows exactly how many treats you will give her based on what time of day it is.
- Get a haircut" is on your list of things to do for weeks at a time without getting it done.
- Get a haircut" has to be on a list.
- you might be an aspie if you liked talking to your computer rather than your friends.
- You might be an aspie if you walk into doorways more often than you walk through them
- If you have become immune to being called a freak.
- If you play a song multiple times in a row.
- If you burst out with some strange sentence.
- If you try to create your own language.
- if in class you made comments and answered more questions than all the other students combined, OR you never said one word the entire year/semester...
- if, when in class and answering too many questions/making comments, the teacher suddenly refused to call on you until she realized that NO OTHER STUDENTS were going to say anything...
- if you have had that teacher take you aside one day and actually ASK you to stop making so many comments and wait awhile to give everyone else a chance before saying something...
- if you actually make organizational lists of your prized possessions (i.e., books, movies) and these are all in either alphabetical or chronological order...
- if you still keep your old X-Files VHSs which you recorded as well as the VHS editions which you bought, even though you have the ENTIRE collection on DVD as well-- and you shudder everytime at someone else's suggestion that you "Sell those old things!"...
- Your grandfather asks you "how's your seat", but you hear "how's your C" - and immediately beginning humming a high C with perfect pitch. After 2 minutes of confusion, you have the entire car in hysterics and your grandfather is having trouble staying on the road.
- The first thing that you notice about a car is not the flashy (or not so flashy) color, size, body style, allure, etc, but its license plate.
- The first thing that you notice about a house is not its color, size, architectural style, curb appeal, etc, but its address number.
- You might be an Aspie if you have been sitting in front of the computer for the last ten hours, when three hours ago you realized you really had to pee but have been putting it off since then as a slight inconvenience, because actually getting up and going to the bathroom would cause you to lose your train of thought with what you are doing.
- If, during this time, you have even tried to keep from moving as much so that you feel less of the urgency to go.
- You must be an aspie... if you like to have alone time a good amount.
- You might be an Aspie if spending time with yourself is your idea of appropriate social interaction...
- You may be one if your idea of a friday night is enjoying a book big and heavy enough to be classified as a weapon.
- If seeing a horror film is less frightening than going to a huge party...
- None of your friends have Endoskeletons...
- You can stare at a bent paperclip for hours and be thoroughly entertained, but you can't watch Tv for more than five minutes before you have to get up and find a bent paperclip...
- Whenever you talk to someone you have to have your best friend with you to translate...
- You're a female and you feel like strangling women who think eating fattening food is a bigger sin than, say, drowning puppies. (Mind your own da*n plate!)
- If someone was bullying you in school and he threatens to "knock you upside yo' head" and he says, "Say I won't, huh? Say I won't." And you take him literally and say the words, "I won't."
- If you care more about how your "Sims" are dressed than your are.
- If you had a house fire, you would save your 130 CDs and 150 Beanie Babies rather than clothes, money and personal records.
- If walking toward your Manhattan tenement on Amsterdam Ave. and 183rd St....at 11:00 at night....alone, doesn't scare you but introducing yourself in front of the whole class is terrifying.
- If, in your 30 years, you've spoken with more people online than IRL and you've only had your computer for less than a year.
- If you get written up at work and correct the spelling of the supervisor on said write up.
- If people say "well you know what I mean", and you don't.
- If you own have every annual World Almanac. 1990 - 2005, and realize you will buy another next year.
- If you own more reference books then fiction.
- If you cannot answer a Yes or No question with-in one paragraph.
- If you email your newspaper editor about typos.
- If your thanksgiving weekend is spent fixing your family's electronics.
- If your family considers you a "waste of 'Genius'". (whether they are serious or not I don't know).
- If everyone says your apartment looks cluttered, even though you know damn well that they just don't recognize your particular mode of organization
- People always came to you for homework help, even though you never actually did your own homework
- Cut the tags off your clothes because they are too itchy if you leave them on.
- When you can't understand as a teenager why other girls are so interested in make-up, boys, clothes and being popular as opposed to reading, enjoying nature, and listening to the radio.
- When you're older and can't understand why other women are so obsessed about losing weight and getting plastic surgery (or thinking about it)
- When you're in a music shop and you're about the only woman there: most of the other patrons are young men.
- When people have always considered there was something a bit freaky about you but they never could really put a finger on what it was.
- When you can't understand why other women would want to be a domestic slave and put their own needs last at all times.
- When you want to be friends with other Aspies even if they are heaps younger than you and of the opposite sex because you find more in common with them than other women around your own age.
- When your emotions are all tangled up and you can't seem to get them straight.
- When you can never answer a question with just "yes" or "no".
- You were 5 and cried because you got mud on you.
- if you drive all the way to the store and forgot why you went there.
- You might be aspie if people call you for homework help and your not even in the class.
- If, at the age of near-24, just yesterday you finally got why the joke "If I told you you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?" is a joke and have been chuckling since...
- If you annoy your parents by asking them questions about astrophysics which they do not understand.
- If the only reason you ask a question of another person is because, at that moment, you are too lazy to go find out for yourself. (On all other occasions, you insist on doing everything yourself and have no interest in other peoples' answers or opinions-- especially opinions).
- If you have considered too many careers too numerous to mention and have wished you could live a coupled hundred more years just so you could have a chance to do them all, in order to show everyone in each respective field how it should be done.
- It often takes a few seconds' delay for you to "get" a joke and there are some others that you never really understand.
- You cry at kindy because you think a decorated cake is "too pretty to eat".
- You don't like to walk on powdery dust with bare feet because it makes your feet feel icky.
- If you realize at 17, everything other than AS that you've been dx'ed with is AS when all combined(excluding some ADD). Da*n shrinks, get it right the first time please.
- If you've memorized an unnatural number of windows shortcut keys including, but not limited to, F5 for refresh; and you use them all on a regular basis.
- You can't believe that the person you are talking to is *not* interested in your current obsession....and when they get up the courage to come to you again a week later and ask you about what you were interested in, you can hardly bear to talk about it because you are now interested in something else
- you meet someone who thanks you for your help and you say, Oh, I didn't do anything to help you, and you mean it because you helped her in the parking lot and don't recognize her now that you're inside...
- lived with someone for 8 years and didn't recognize her 6 months after breaking up.
- you find emoticons vaguely disturbing....
- your room is a cross between a junkyard, a computer/electronics store and an eight year old child's room, yet you know where everything is..
- you can tell if there's a spelling, grammar or math error in a document, but you can't tell what someone meant when they said visit anytime and it's a school for emotionally disturbed kids.
- you can read a hundred pages in a couple of hours but you can't read the expression on the face of the person you just asked for a date.
- you feel horrible having no friends and within minutes you've forgotten why you felt so bad.
- your cat's behavior is more understandable than most human behavior.
- If you owned an up to date encyclopedia set by the age of 7.
- If you're forever tidying piles of ring binders and other things at work because people pull some out and make the piles untidy
- if when you're doing something as simple as ordering dinner, you get nervous and mess up all your sentences.
- if you say "thank you" whenever someone calls you weird.
- if you named your computer.
- Your mother takes away pop cans and papers that you're holding because you fidget with them incessantly (or is that just me?).
- Or the record store!! ! (me). Double points if they carry vinyl
- your brain still stores a lot of "useless garbage" such as the encyclopedia info on electric conductors you used to read as a kid.
- you always get the last laugh at jokes. Literally.
- you end up doing Air Guitar in front of your peers who give you weird looks.
- your cousin phones and says:"Could you call your mother and tell her that my wife has just given birth to my son?" and your answer is:"Of course, i will,bye". And then,you realize you had to say something like"congratulations", only when your sisters tell you.
- You prefer lizards and snakes as pets over typical cats and dogs
- Your nails are bitten down to a fine nub
- if you can recognize a larger percentage of the people on this poster:
- you remember by association but can't associate faces with names.
- You dont watch reality tv.
- There are only two pairs of jeans that you will wear.
- Your teacher gives the class a typed handout and you correct the punctuation mistakes in pen.
- You hate rhyming translations because they’re inaccurate.
- You make an overly long contribution to this thread. (My apologies).
- someone tells a joke and you start laughing when it's not finished
- If people frequently have to point it out to you when you are bleeding.
- You might be an aspie if people laugh at you when you are trying to be serious, but your jokes go right over their heads
- If you're mind is racing along at greater speeds than those around you.
- If you're mind is racing along at greater speeds than those around you.
- when you don't understand why you should 'never wear blue and green, without a colour in between!' (apparently that's unfashionable)
- when you don't understand why you should 'never wear blue and green, without a colour in between!' (apparently that's unfashionable)
- You read scientific american at 10
- if you'd rather read up on soviet and nazi-german decorations than do your homework.
- When you wish you could go into other people's posts and correct their html tags, spelling, punctuation and grammar because it's like nails on a chalkboard when you see errors.
- You do not notice your mother's face lift, even after she moves in close and asks you what's different about her.
- When you are familiar with every thrift, book, music, and coffee shop where you live, but have no idea where to find Old Navy or Hot Topic, or know if one even exists in your town.
- You might be an Aspie if you look forward to spending your entire weeks vacation alone.
- after years of wondering what's "wrong with me" you finally hear about AS and it all makes a lot more sense.
- you'll still laugh at jokes that are explained to you.
- You might be an aspie if you have heard a billion times that you have to be on drugs to understand Pink Floyd: The Wall, but you watched the movie and understood it very well while dead sober.
- if you spend the entire party reading books in the host's library.
- You can't hear the movie because someone is chewing three rows down.
- You cant eat the popcorn because your fingers are in your ears and the movies to loud.
- you thank Gore for inventing the internet because now when you obsess and need research, you don't have to spend days in the Library
- While you're there, you initiate little if any conversation and you answer all questions with relatively short *automatic* answers.....How are you? "Fine". Anything new? "Not really". How's work? "Ok".....While this is going on all you can think of is getting to the computer room to get on WP.
- You get mad at your boyfriend for inviting people over to the house without checking with you first and HE DOESN'T understand why that would be a problem
- You wake up every morning wondering if the meds are helping or making everything worse
- Somebody says or does something to you and it takes at least 24 hours to get good and pissed off and think of the "right" thing to say
- Your house is full of parts from things you took apart, not because they were broken, but because you just had to find o ut how it worked.
- Someone at work clapped their hand on your shoulder and your social skills weren't good enough to explain why you yelled.
- if you have to be bullied into picking up the phone.
- you post verbose comments.
- you have to sneak to pick your scabs because your kids will smack your hands
- your husband nearly has his arm amputated and his cut heals faster than your tiny scratch
- you give your dogs more affection than your husband and kids
- you love it when people take the time to explain their jokes
- you have to be told ahead of time someone is joking
- you have a callus on the side of your thumb from digging at it with your fingernail
- if, despite the fact that your conversational partner is turning red and raising his or her voice and waving wildly, which you know indicates anger and/or a likely swat on your head, you cannot refrain from pointing out the logical flaws in the clearly overemotional argument he or she is spouting.
- if you've ever been compared to Rainman for knowing who Icarus was.
- you get bored, so you make a database (and front end of course) to keep track of all your varous collections
- You can manage to fall over on a statiory exercice bike
- you don't notice if someone gains twenty pounds, but cannot racognize them if they cut their hair half an inch.
- If, at least once a month, someone new tells you you should "smile more, because you look so pretty when you smile."
- If you have ever known someone for a month and still not known their name.
- If you have ever used chat abbreviations in actual speech, for example, saying "Lol," when someone says something funny.
- If you have ever used emoticons verbally, for example, saying "semicolon underscore semicolon" when someone says something depressing.
- you no longer use the dictionary to look up words, you simply look for the root word to define the word and read the dictionary for entertainment.
- you use the word "peers" to describe your classmates.
- if you have to write in complete sentences with perfect grammar on IM or in someone's yearbook.
- if you were frequently scared of movies when you were little (like Mary Poppins) and hid from these movies in your closet.
- if you've had to define words you've used in caual conversation.
- if you really see no other point to a fire drill other than getting away from the horrible fire alarm. (The lights flash, too, at my school.)
- you think the invention of tagless tees is waaay better than sliced bread
- Your favorite page in an intruction book is the one with the exploded views with all the part numbers
- You hate talking on the phone and prefer to use email.
- You draw (if that is your obsessive interest or one of your obsessive interests) something over and over again until it looks exactly the same as the object you are drawing.
- when you are referred to by some as the "spelling police" (I can't bear spelling errors, and it's even worse when I do a post or email someone and make typos of my own - I generally add another post or email back with an apology!!)
- when you actually would rather do this on a Friday/Saturday night than anything else!
- when you are obsessed by a particular book, reading it fifteen times in a row, but not being able to recite its' contents once moving onto another obsession
- when your memory is like a sieve with some things (generally considered "important"), and like an elephant with others (important to us but not to others)
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-If you actually read that entire list DrowningMedusa made.
....Oh, and if you find the idea of teaching 8th grade more scarier than getting killed serving in Iraq.
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Err using VBA? If you did I would like the code please! :)
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-You spend hours "translating" DVD's by writing down the Spanish subtitles, just because you simply love learning the language.
-Your favorite part of the week is when you get to TA for chemistry.
-You refuse to walk a certain way or go in certain buildings because it creeps you out.
-You get as excited about the mere mention of neurotransmitters or the Civil War as most people do about a new car.
-You are surprised when people tell you that you come across as self-centered and arrogant.
-You interrupt somebody to tell them that they should have used "well" instead of "good."
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And, yes, I'm proud to admit that all of these are taken from my real life...
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OR: ...if you've gotten into a fight with your English teachers because you happen to know that "blackboard grammar" rules like these are completely groundless and result from a nineteenth-century effort to make English fit the grammatical rules of Latin despite the fact that English is a Germanic language, not a Romantic one. Bonus points if you actually win the argument.
...if you couldn't resist adding that extra 'l' to "declined" so that it's spelled correctly.
...if your family throws you a surprise birthday party and you flee as soon as no one is looking.
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I did not know that!! That's very useful information.
I don't know if this is an aspie thing or not, but I also have an annoying tendency to spell things in the British form, because I've got it my head that this is the way it's spelled properly. (Favourite, colour, centre, realise, etc.) I started in high school and have only recently broken the habit. It still bothers me to spell it the way everyone else does, though.
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I do that with some words (I prefer grey to gray, colour to color) but not others (I prefer curb to kerb, standardize to standardise, saber to sabre). I think it's more down to what you read when you were little. I read a lot of British writing in addition to American (I was a big fan of James Herriot and Roald Dahl, among others), so I picked up on both spelling systems.
In any case, Webster, who orchestrated the difference between American and British spelling, was mainly doing it to try to create a "unique American identity" and was also trying to phoneticize and standardize English, an eminently futile task given English's rather undiscrimatory approach to garnering vocabulary (i.e., stealing other people's all the time). Really, who wants to entrust their mode of spelling to a man who wanted to spell "tongue" 'T-U-N-G?'
...if you squealed with near-ecstatic delight when you saw in Borders a copy of The Ultimate Etymology Guide and had to be dragged away because you'd already spent all your money.
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-If all you ever talk about in your blog is your special interests. Mainly being fantasy books, movies and adventure games.
-If you write in your blog as though people are actually reading and interested in what you write(may just be me)
-If you look like a child and act like one, and still follow your parent's rules because you live in their house.
-If you've stolen your brother's jacket and you love it because it's all big and loose and enjoy hiding your hands in the sleeves and then flopping the sleeves around.
-If you make better eye contact with your dog than you do with people.
-If you understand your dog's moods better than other people's.
-If you have impressed your mom more than once by knowing the year certain movies were made.
-If you have impressed your mom more than once at naming certain animals(such as fish)when you see them
-If at one time you knew all the names of dinosaurs and which prehistoric period they lived in, along with other facts(I still know most of them)
-If you sometimes just don't get people your own age, and they seem more immature than you.
-If you are in awe of how your neighbor can walk up to a total stranger and start a conversation with them.
-If you obsess over looking for characters in TV, movies and books with ASDs.
-If the foods you will eat are becoming more and more limited(seems to be happening to me).
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Yeah, I never took to kerb. Just felt wrong.
...if you spent three years of high school wearing only black and white with occasional splashes of red because then you didn't have to worry about matching things.
...if the day you broke this trait people thought you were a new student.
...if someone pops in an old VHS tape and you can identify it by which previews are playing.
...if you have to be reminded on what day your stepson's birthday is, and it's the same as yours.
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-- If your wife references your post on the "You might be an aspie if..." thread as a way of driving a point home.
Sunny: Didn't you wear that shirt last night?
Cat: I don't think so.
Sunny: You probably should change shirts.
Cat: Wait, no, the shirt I had on last night had a pocket.
Sunny: But it looks like the same shirt.
Cat: No, it had a pocket.
Sunny: This is where I say "I love you honey", right?
Cat: Okay, okay....
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You know you're an Aspie if when you were little, you were so mad you didn't know how to read yet, that you took a geology book and made up dialog for EVERY page starting with the title page.
And it took hours and hours and hours to do.
....and hours and hours.
And I swear it all made sense.
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