You Might be an Aspie if...

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...if you feel the need to clarify that you were told the rules rather than saw them written down because to say they were written wouldn't be honest (no poetic license allowed!).

...When your nickname for the first four years of school was 'Actually' because you used the word so often.

When your favorite method of starting a conversation with someone was to show them a book you found interesting.

When you used to get away from the pseuds at art college by sneaking off to the library and spending hours poring over Gray's Anatomy. Which is still one of your favorite books.

When you can look at a random picture of Kurt Cobain onstage and, quite often, identify the year, the month, the location of the gig, and sometimes the song.

When you work in a medical job and have occasionally killed time when there wasn't much happening by reading a medical dictionary and trying to classify all the different kinds of cyst.

When you have precisely two friends from school, one of whom you haven't seen in years because she sent your Email about your Neil Gaiman obsession all around her office, the other because she had a baby and you're scared she might have turned....normal.

When you re-read Sandman and realize just how often you use expressions like 'I think I must call him Mr. Shouty' and 'She's making little frogs' and 'Families...They rock and they suck' in routine everyday conversation.

When your husband takes you to see Revenge of the Sith and all you can think is with all that advanced technology, how come they didn't know till the last minute that Princess Amidala was having twins?

When you routinely 'can't put the name to the face' of anyone beyond a first-degree relative and of people who work in the next office over.

When you're learning an almost obsolete Native American language for which the nearest available textbooks are sold about 7,000 miles away, just because you want to.

When you know more about the history of Seattle than most of the people who live there.

When you refused to eat lunch for about five years of school because you didn't like the textures of most of the foods.

When you would happily consider paying upwards of £50 for a special edition graphic novel, but would balk at spending the same on a pair of shoes.

When the idea of inviting anyone round scares you (a: the place is a tip, and b: there's enough evidence of your special interests lying around to make people go 'Yeah, er, right...')

... if you can read more languages than you can actually speak.

... if you immediately log out of your Facebook account when you find that someone you know is online, and you're afraid they'll try to chat with you.

... if watching the video for The Art of Noise's "Close to the Edit" makes you cringe.

... if you spend your entire vacation in your hotel room, despite all the plans you made for yourself, because the fact that you're on vacation is terrifying you.

1. You don't own a mobile phone, but if you do you never use it.

2. You know the names and personal details of everyone in your class or workplace, despite never speaking with them longer than 30 seconds.

3. You need several days a week completely home alone to 'recharge'.

4. You're female and fail to understand what's so damn interesting about celebrity gossip... or fashion... or romantic comedies... Or anything that could be classed as 'girly'.

5. People constantly ask you "what's wrong".

6. You spend so much time in your own head your convinced your body might evaporate one day.

7. When you were younger you dreamed of being abducted by aliens and the only movie that ever made you come close to tears was 'E.T the Extraterrestrial'.

8. You're severally unintuitive, but can detect a complete a***hole a mile away due to past experiences.

9. You suspect your interest in Psychology to have stemmed from your complete bafflement of human behavior.

10. You know most of your friends by their screen names.

11. The sound of your monotone puts babies to sleep.

12. You remember the lyrics of nearly every song you've ever heard despite not liking most of them.

13. You're more likely to remember what a person looks like by there feet, hands or just about anything else other than their face.

14. Storage space for books is the most important factor for you in buying a new home.

15. You'd start to worry if you weren't worried.

16. You hated other kids as a child and much preferred adult company. In fact, you never even considered yourself a child and were offended at being treated as such.

17. Your sense of humor is best described as absurdist or batshit-insane.

18. You select your clothing based on comfort and practicality over style. Which is fine because you've never had a fashion sense. Not to mention you think fashion is ridiculous, obnoxious and slightly irritating.

19. You would cease to function without a routine and your 'to do' lists.

20. Your so pedantic, you find the word aspie irritating and shudder everytime you use it.

"you're disappointed that the latest close-approaching meteor is not, after all, going to hit Earth because you've been fascinated by cataclysms and catastrophism ever since you first saw "When Worlds Collide" and it scared the bejeebers out of you, and you really want to see what a real cataclysm would be like"

too true

i actually stopped, in the middle of traffic, to accept the gorgeous beauty of sudden death delivered from space. then i kept walking

I did that with my toys before i was ten. I hope it counts. None of them survived. Me and my screwdrivers had a lot of fun, learning how things work.

you might be an Aspie if your favorite thing to do at your aunts house was to empty out the change jar and count it all.

-... your anxiety about going in to a room and meet a new person levels above the one you have when you realise your about to get run over by a bus.

-... when someone say "I've never told you that." to which you reply "Yes, you did that last week when we where at the movie." and the first person point out that you went to that movie two months ago and that you haven't seen each others in a month.

-... you lagugh when you see a horror movie since everyone knows that the Siberian freshwater sharks mouth and throat are the only ones designed to eat the Short freshwater shrimp and thus making it impossible to swallow a whole human in one bite.

-... you have to remind yourself that the frase "How are you?" allways are answerd "Fine thanks, and you?".

-... you rather spend time with a persons pet than with the person.

-... noone has ever said to you "Must you allways do as everyone els?".

-... you've never had a guy/girlfriend that complains about you hanging out too much with your friends.

-... the times you find someone just like you, that understands you completly and share your interests, you both forget to exchange any type of personal information.

That had me laughing pretty hard because it is absolutely true, well, for me anyway!

In that manner:
* You support Obama because you hope his unsound fiscal politics will create a hyperinflation and hyperinflations are your obsession (also you expect the local media to cover this better than they covered the Zimbabwean one).

You think there are different definitions for words, when there's only different contexts(I can't really explain it, I think it's an Aspie trait...).
EMZ=]

You might be an Aspie if....

*you like watching the washers and dryers spin at the laundry

*it’s cheaper to have a pay as you go cell phone than a regular cell phone plan

*if you were told you were very mature when you were a kid and now as an adult people say you are immature.

*you go to a fast food place and they know your name, not because you’ve ever told them, but because they’ve seen your check card so many times

*you have to have a reminder to brush your teeth every day and to shower on a regular basis

*you go into the toy department at the store and play with all the spinning and flashing toys and think they are all cool. But when you are at a friends house and their kids are playing with the same toy you are annoyed at the sound because you are not the one making it.

*you think your female organs should be ripped out because you know you are never going to have kids.

*you have your hair long so you can just put it in a ponytail instead of actually having to do something that takes more than 30 seconds.

*if the first time you read about Asperger’s you were suddenly able to put the random pieces of your life together.

*if you keep your cd player unplugged because if it’s plugged in it generates a buzz that annoys the h311 out of you.

*your emotional quotient (EQ) is 17 and the norm for women is 42.

*you don’t need TV because you’ve got too many things you want to learn about

*you have a tab open to Google just to look up things you saw on WP that you’ve never seen or heard of before.

*if you are forced to spend 24 hours with family and your friend begs you not to do it again for Christmas because she doesn’t want to listen to you whine for two weeks about how miserable it was.

*you get upset because your supervisor comes and asks you in person to do something instead of sending you an e-mail.

*your friend accuses you of being too honest.

From that site:
"...when someone says, "Now take a minute and picture -in your head- something or other", you wonder why it would be necessary to suggest it, because you always have pictures in your head."

So true that one!

If you are with your lover in the kitchen, he sits on his laptop and you go in your room to send him an e-mail telling him that you will leave house for some shopping in less than 5 min. ... actual happened yesterday afternoon.

...at the Chinese restaurant you go to every workday they know that you want all your meals with no water chesnuts and a Dr. Pepper and they can name the four things on the menu that you might order.

...at the same restaurant, you know the prices better than the owner and protest when he accidentally rings up a lower price.


...if you're a female and you have your hair in a crewcut so you don't have to mess with it at all.

That's me.

Put me in a physically dangerous situation and I'm cool. Order me to go up and say something to someone, and I want to hyperventilate.