You Might be an Aspie if...

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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 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.

The 7th grade Science teacher tells you you're working too hard after revewing your bullet notes for the chapter. The assignment was to take bullet notes for the reading assigned in the current chapter, amounting to approximately 20 bullet notes or so, and you turned in about 47-74 bullet notes because you generated one bullet note for every paragraph in the reading.

You tell a good friend and professor from the previous semester that you have her for a class this semester and she says, "Oh no, not again - you'll be asking me too many hard questions again. Besides, you should be teaching the class, not me."

A professor for your operating systems class (Windows command line and Unix/Linux/Solaris) looks at your final grade (A+) and says that he needs to cut back the amount of extra credit he gives out in the class.

When a professor asks for a show of hands asking how many students sat in the same exact seat during every class for the entire semester, you are one of 3 people who raise their hand out of the entire class

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 use the bathroom 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.

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.

You must be an aspie... if all you want to do on a Friday Night is to be alone.

If you get written up at work and correct the spelling of the supervisor on said write up.

If you can not stand "poetic license".

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 find an article of infomation in your personal reference library, faster then online.

If you own more reference books then fiction.

If you enumerate EVERY list.

If you cannot answer a Yes or No question with-in one paragraph.

If you email your newspaper editor about typos.

If you are on a first name basis with every taxi driver/ bus driver in your town.

11. If people often ask you advice about love when you are twenty six and only have had one 2 month relationship in your life.

If you call more than 3 people a day illiterate, and mean it.

If your barber asks you "how do you want it" you have absolutly no answer what-so-ever.

If you laugh and "sad" movies while everyone else is crying.

If your thanksgiving weekend is spent fixing your family's electronics.


If you only obtain new clothing during christmas and birthdays.

-If everyone says your apartment looks cluttered, even though you know damn well that they just don't recognize your particular mode of organization

- The only clear space on your floor is a path to your bed

- Your bookshelf content consists of reference books and fiction you continue to buy, but never actually read

- The vast majority of Word documents on your computer are lists

- You can recite the countries of the world in alphabetical order, but can't remember the last time you did something socially

- You can find an exact passage in a book you haven't read in years, but not your shoes

- You wear open toed shoes... in winter... in Wisconsin

- You would rather have teeth pulled than go clothes shopping

- You contain more random information than encyclopedia

- The words "public school system" make you swear and throw things

- You were ever punished for correcting the teacher in class

- People always came to you for homework help, even though you never actually did your own homework

-Your 8th grade homeroom teacher got so sick of you asking them to discipline everyone that's bullying you (i.e. the entire rest of the school), and so the teacher tells you how "you need to stand up for yourself..."

-You were one of less than 5 percent of the male students in your middle school to not get suspended at some point or another (i.e strict rule adherance), and got the [expletive] pounded out of you every single day as a direct result.

-You've gone to the information desk at Chicago Union Station and pointed out that they had the wrong schedules on the rack. When they asserted the schedule didn't change and the old one was still good, you tell them which station pairs to look up in the computer so they can see that the schedule has indeed changed.

-You overhear a conversation amongst strangers: "Yeah, so there's this guy at work, I think he has something...he came down to Portland a couple months ago, and just rode the entire light rail system. Went out to Gresham, then over to Hillsboro...he's the best programmer ever, but he's so weird, I think he has something..." You don't know whether to laugh or be pissed, and while you're no programmer and don't know who this guy is, you reach into your pocket and feel the Tri-Met all-day pass you used to ride the entire Portland Light Rail System earlier that day.

Cut the tags off your clothes because they are too itchy if you leave them on.

Go around in bare feet as often as you can.

Hate constricting clothes.

Are wearing light clothes when other people are all rugged up.

If you annoy your parents by asking them questions about astrophysics which they do not understand.

If you push the random article button on Wikipedia for hours and it entertains you.

After completing the software program Sierra's "Driver's Education '99", taking a correspondence-based driver's ed program, passing your written driver's exam test with 100%, memorizing all the traffic laws, and obeying them perfectly, you can't understand why other drivers don't follow the rules.


if you actually make organizational lists of your prized possessions (i.e., books, movies) and these are all in either alphabetical or chronological order...

Yeah - shoes suck! Unfortunately I've taken to wearing at least jandals in the dodgier areas of the central city after I needed 8 anaesthetic injections in my foot to get it numb enough for them to dig the glass shards out.. I had no idea how much the anaesthetic hurts before it starts working!

you know you're an aspie when........you mean to say i'm glad to meet you but instead giving a half-smile and appearing annoyed

When most people settle for correcting wikipedia, you spend hours reading the Britannica and post corrections to their publishing house.

Just found loads of them.
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