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29 Jun 2009, 11:04 am

CockneyRebel wrote:

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.

Nah, that's not being aspie, that's just having good taste!

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29 Jun 2009, 11:34 am

Rather than using a phone list, your co-workers ask you for someone's phone extension. Yet you still have difficulty remembering your mother's birthday.

That one sounds a lot like me.

You might be an aspie if...you love listening to Metallica at full blast, but the sound of a vacuum cleaner annoys you

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29 Jun 2009, 11:36 am

DarrylZero wrote:

YMBAAI...

One of your co-workers uses a colloquialism and then asks, "Hmmm...I wonder where that came from?" so he can watch you run to the nearest computer, sign onto the Internet, and look it up.

You use words like "colloquialism."

Someone asks you, "What's the word?" and you pause while you try to think if there was some kind of word you were supposed to know or give in this situation. You end up responding with, "Sesquipedalian."

You calm yourself at work by analyzing data on a spreadsheet.

Your boss concludes a meeting by asking, "Any questions?" and you think it's hilarious to respond with, "Yes. Why do dictionaries have page numbers?"

Your favorite pastime as a 10-year-old was laying on the floor and reading encyclopedias for hours on end.

A co-worker asks you, "So, what do you know?" and you immediately start mentally running through the different categories and sub-categories of knowledge in your brain until you become paralyzed with a data overload because the question wasn't specific enough.

(raises hand shyly)

Incidentally, dictionaries have page numbers because publishers don't understand that some books simply don't need page numbers. It's traditional to put them in, and that's all they need to know...

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29 Jun 2009, 11:40 am

... in a conversation you command people to define the ambiguous words in the question they just asked ("define X.").

- because you noticed that your brain just imploded attempting to answer.
- you never notice that other people consider this rude.
- you wonder why no-one considers it rude to ask an obvious ambiguous question.

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29 Jun 2009, 11:48 am

YMBAAI...you constantly forget to do things like clean house, do your laundry or dishes. Yet you are religious when it comes to maintaining your car, or computer

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29 Jun 2009, 12:52 pm

...if your mother leaves you at Preschool class but when she gets home she receives a call from the teacher complaining that her child is not participating and will not move from the corner to learn with the rest of the class. Your mother than drives back to the school to pick you up and take you home. She then discovers that you were listening and learning the entire time as you are now singing all the songs and reciting all the activities word for word in the car.

...if your favorite game to play during class breaks is to walk through the parking lot and glance at all the license plates on all the vehicles as you walk by and when you get to the end of a row you take out a piece of paper and write down all the plate codes in the order that you saw them and then walk back through to make sure you got it right before proceeding to the next row. (I love this game!)

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29 Jun 2009, 4:03 pm

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Your boss concludes a meeting by asking, "Any questions?" and you think it's hilarious to respond with, "Yes. Why do dictionaries have page numbers?"

You desperately hope someone actually does know why dictionaries have page numbers because you've spent several hours trying to find out with no success.

If you're still wondering that, my thought is that it's for people who can't easily look up words by letter. For example, in elementary school, a teacher might tell the class which page number to find a particular word.

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29 Jun 2009, 8:03 pm

DarrylZero wrote:

Maybe it's for people like me who can never remember whether S comes before T unless they mentally recite the entire alphabet first....(and I find it hard not to move my head along "in tune" with the alphabet song when I'm mentally reciting the alphabet....sad I know)

Or more likely it's just a part of the printing process, as there can be the odd printing error and it's is easier to see if a page is missing or printed in the wrong order if you can check the page numbers run in sequential order?

I also need to look at my hands, remember which one I write with (sometimes having to pretend I'm holding a pen so I can see which looks more natural) in order to determine which direction is left or right (I'm right handed).....not surprisingly I still don't have a drivers license....

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29 Jun 2009, 9:25 pm

If, as a child, you were surprised when your older brother told you that Santa wasn't real...but only because it came as a shock that anyone had expected you to actually believe that crap in the first place?

When he tells you (in a concerned voice) "but mum and dad still think you believe in Santa?" you respond...."yeah, I know....I get more presents when they think that" (because to you that makes incredibly logical reasoning and you can't understand why he would think that was unfair and then go tell on you to mum & dad?)

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29 Jun 2009, 9:31 pm

I forget things alot...such as where I put my coffee or drink, or how many times or if I even emailed a friend or to do a task.I am very forgetful.

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29 Jun 2009, 11:40 pm

DeaconBlues wrote:

Incidentally, dictionaries have page numbers because publishers don't understand that some books simply don't need page numbers. It's traditional to put them in, and that's all they need to know...

I think that's the most plausible reason. Thanks. :wtg:

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30 Jun 2009, 2:37 pm

DarrylZero wrote:

DeaconBlues wrote:

Incidentally, dictionaries have page numbers because publishers don't understand that some books simply don't need page numbers. It's traditional to put them in, and that's all they need to know...

I think that's the most plausible reason. Thanks. :wtg:

YMBAAI: you belong to a site in which there are more than two entries about why dictionaries have page numbers.

if people constantly accuse you of looking like you're not paying attention (when you can repeat what just happened word for word.)

if people love how nice and focused you look--when in actuality, you haven't heard anything; you were too busy Trying To Make Eye Contact.

if you're laughing out loud while reading this thread. in a public place. at a table all by yourself.

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01 Jul 2009, 2:15 am

exhausted wrote:

DarrylZero wrote:

DeaconBlues wrote:

Incidentally, dictionaries have page numbers because publishers don't understand that some books simply don't need page numbers. It's traditional to put them in, and that's all they need to know...

I think that's the most plausible reason. Thanks. :wtg:

YMBAAI: you belong to a site in which there are more than two entries about why dictionaries have page numbers.

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02 Jul 2009, 6:14 pm

finally I know what is wrong with me.

thanx everyone!

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05 Jul 2009, 4:05 pm

YMBAAI you try to take your brother (and gf) out for a meal with some friends, because they were burgled the previous night, but get so confused organising it you almost don't go yourself, even though there are only 3 people to call.

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05 Jul 2009, 4:28 pm

ScottF wrote:

Rather than using a phone list, your co-workers ask you for someone's phone extension. Yet you still have difficulty remembering your mother's birthday.

That one sounds a lot like me.

That sounds a lot like me too.

I'm thirty eight. I love my Dad. I am always forgetting his birthday. This year I remembered that it's the same day as the Dali Lama's, so in order to find out my Dad's birthday, I googled the Dali Lama.

Happy birthday Dad.

I think it's the first time I've posted his card in time for years.

I often forget my own birthday if I'm not home (if I'm home the birthday cards remind me.) I've missed new years on several occasions, not to mention many Christmases.

I don't get why dates are important to most people. But apparently they are, so I'm going to have to buy a wall planner, since I forget to turn the pages on calandars. :oops:

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