You Might be an Aspie if...

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Wow. This is a great thread,. After 42 pages I woudn't think that there wouild be anything left for me, and maybe their isn't but I just have a different way of expressing a few things.

You might be an Aspie if ...

You have gone all the way to the checkout line before you realized that you left your wallet at home.

When describing someone, you never know what color eyes they have.

When you meet a beautiful girl walking her dog, you greet the dog.

You might be an aspie if...

...your (boyfriend's) friends are sitting around smoking weed and talking about random, useless nonsense and you go off into the other room without a word to practice reading your jazz chords on the guitar from a workbook you are following step by step.

You might be an Aspie if:

a) You are refered to as "naive" in a job performance rating.
b) You consistently do not recognize good friends or acquaintances in public venues.
c) You see distinguishable visual patterns in practically everything you look at.
d) A favorite pastime is feeling the joints of your fingers with the fingernails of the opposite hand.
e) You cannot start doing something because there are too many possibilities of where to begin.
f) People mimic the monotone of your voice because they think you are messing with them in some way.
g) You are still analyzing and revising conversations you had five years ago.

-- you've ever realised that you knew somebody years ago... not because of their name, or face, but because they use a particular phrase that you incorporated into your own library.

-- you've ever resumed a conversation that was interrupted more than a decade prior.

(Both of these actually apply to the same person-- we took a martial arts class together in the fourth grade, then ended up at the same high school in the same writing class. I recognized him because he said "Happy endings went out with Julius Cæsar!" Years later, we met again because we were both working for IBM. Periodically I will be reminded of a conversation in high school and bring it up to him, and I usually end up trying to get him to remember by reminding him where we were and in which positions we were sitting before I realise that I'm doing it again.)

-- You not only know how to type characters like æ and é. but use them when appropriate.

That could also mean you're française as well, n'oublie pas

They just keep coming.


...if you treat facial expressions like emoticons. (I have about five standard expressions... the spocked eyebrow, the quick grin , the furrowed brow, the puzzled frown, and bugeyes. This isn't counting the blank stare as expression, since nobody seems to notice that I'm actually trying to express "blank stare." To me, the blinks give it away, but this distinction seems to be lost on everyone else.)

You might be an aspie if you take what someone says COMPLETELY the wrong way, because you connected dots that just weren't there.

How about if you look down, or away from the source when an alarm goes off!

With æ?

NEG!! !! ! Jeg tænkte at det var kun paa DANSK!

My apology to danish speakers if I spelled it wrong. 8-( I thought æ was only in Danish!

Steve

Nope. A lot of old latin uses it, although the modern convention is to replace it with "ae", which is why you usually see "Caesar" and "Dramatis Personae". I imagine it's a matter of typographical convenience. You almost never see it, but I had a book of the Complete Works of Shakespeare that took the effort to be historically accurate.

For Unix geeks... the reason they spell it "daemon" is because the word was originally dæmon. (It has never been other than "daemon" for Unix, to my knowledge, propably for the same typographical convenience. Similarly, the Caesar salad doesn't get the æ because it was named for a person whose name was spelled the more modern way.)

When you keep pushing buttoms like "Don`t push!! !!"

When it says "paint drying, do not touch" and you do it

F5 is refresh wooooooooooooooooooooohhh , a new world

(OMG. I feel like I've come home here. I was sitting in a restaurant with a very patient friend. The table was aluminum with little swirl circles buffed into the surface. I had to find out where the top swirl was because that was the last one applied to the table and the only one that was a perfect circle instead of a crescent. My friend said, I think it's this one over here.)

You might be an Aspie if:

Your mother is trying to get you to go to a neurologist because your hands are jerking.

I told her I play piano pieces with my fingers alot of the time, but instead of wiggling my fingers exaggeratedly, they just jerk ever so slightly as I "play". I've been playing the same pieces this way since I was 12. I'm in my 40's now. She doesn't believe me and thinks I need to see a doctor.

You might be an aspie if you've maintainedan Honors average since Grade 5.

[quote="Sean"]

...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.[quote]

Like tarantulas and scorpions?

I know, that rule about the commas and quotes is SO counter-intuitive. The person talking did not say a comma! Question and exclamation marks are different, because they actually reflect how the quote was spoken. When I'm writing an English assignment I always use the correct ordering of quotes and commas, but in e-mails, blog postings, message boards, and other personal communications I tend to put the comma outside the quotes. I still wonder who came up with that rule, though.

Another thing that I have gotten complaints about with regards to comma usage--I tend to confuse the use of "that" and "which". Technically, the word "which" should always be preceded by a comma. For instance, you could say "I wrote a sentence that had proper punctuation" or "I wrote a sentence, which had proper punctuation" but not "I wrote a sentence which had proper punctuation". Not only would I violate this rule quite a bit if I didn't look out for it, but I would in general really overuse the word "which" anyway. After writing every paper I would have to do a "which hunt" as I humorously called it, in order to reduce my usage of the word and please my proofreaders.

Oh God, how true some of those are!

Here's some more.

.....if you correct your English teacher on his spelling (Yes, I did this, when I was 12! Was he embarrassed!)_
....If you suspect you have a certain condition and set out a three page document explaining why to your GP, and he refers you straight away because he's impressed with your reasoning and thinks you may be right.

.....if you can recall the area code and phone number you had when you were five easily, but you have to think to recall your current one, or if you need to look up your curent landline/cell phone number

.....Your typical go-to-sleep time is to ther right hand side of the 12 on an analog clock

.....You can talk on a complex or obscure topic till the sun sets

.....when 75% of the people you've known consider(ed) you weid or odd

.....When your tolerance of heat/cold is greater than most of those around you

.....When someone tells you they fasncy you, you want to run away as fast as you can!

JulieArticuno