You Might be an Aspie if...

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...if you are frustrated when you argue with someone using logic, verifiable facts, and reliable sources and they still insist that they are right cause they rely on intimidation, or assertion, or conventional wisdom as foundations for their point.

YMBAAI You have footnoted a forum post with references when someone insisted your information was wrong. (Actually only once, and I was being sarcastic, but still...)

RR

Funny, that just happened to me this morning.

YMBAAI you have three keyboards and even more mice.

this is me...like...all the friggin' time.

Then someone else explains it to 'em with facts and logic as well, and they get it--just not when we say it.

it's one of those things I accept that's the "lost in translation" situation though between NTs and Autistic folks, though.

YMBAAI your family accuses you of going being "on pause."

YMBAAI you suddenly drop out of a conversation and stare off into space, and everyone stares at you when it's "your turn" to talk again.

YMBAAI you constantly carry a broken rubber band around with you and twirl it between your fingers when you aren't using your fingers for other things.

You watch your favorite movie more than once a day because you do not realize you have already watched it

You wonder if you had just watched your favorite movie today but it feels like you never watched it yet so you play it again



Hey what's with the YMBAAI?

"YMBAAI" stands for "You might be an Aspie if..."

You're an aspie if you're reading this

You know you're an Aspie if you go ballistic, when somebody puts things at an angle instead of straight/ move it slightly away from its original position/ insists you do things their way instead of yours (That could make them an aspie too or a mother).

You know you're an aspie if science fiction inspires you but political friction drives you round the bend

You know you're an aspie if you eat to live, not live to eat (If somebody else is doing the cooking that is different but spending time preparing food, unless it fascinates you, is a complete waste of time you could utilize better

You know you're an aspie, if you hate things that haven't been complet

You know you're an aspie when you're stressed out because of the serious perfectionism clause in your existence (Don't touch that! Don't change that! Don't pollute that with your thoughts/ dirty fingers!)

You know you're an aspie when you've got an high IQ but no job because society can't find any work for somebody with your strange skills and abysmal communication skills

You know you're an aspie when pain makes you laugh and every sensation that others don't notice, is like rocks falling on your head (How can you not notice 'that', when it's ten on my Richter scale, even if it's nil on yours?)

You know you're an aspie when insignificant things like eating and sleeping get in the way of noticing strange or interesting things in the environment

You know you're an aspie when you cannot shut up about your favourite subject or start a conversation/ join in with somebody else's banal one

You might be an aspie, if you like writing or reading great big long lists like this one.

You might be an aspie if the idea of drinking your self unconscious, is the opposite of what you want from life i.e. to be sober and conscious of the world as much as possible

You might be an aspie, if the idea of kicking/ hitting or throwing a ball into a target area, makes absolutely no sense to you at all (Where is the fun in that?)

That second one absolutely nails me; I even told my girlfriend many times in regards to my stance on drinking: "if I'm going to have fun doing something, I'd like to be consciously aware of what I'm doing, when I'm doing it".

You might be an aspie if you hate hitting the 'submit' button at the bottom of this post, when you reply.

You might be an aspie if you preferred sensory apparatus is visual rather than sonic

You might be an aspie, if you prefer flexing your brain, to flexing your muscles

You might be an aspie if you prefer cats to dogs

You might be an aspie, if you're a loner rather than feel alone (seek crowds, rather than face
yourself alone)

You might be an aspie, if you laugh at death and nobody else can understand what's so funny

You might be an aspie if you get upset at people thinking you're a homosexual/ lesbian, rather than just weird because it's not the sexual orientation you object to but an NT getting 8&%@ing things wrong again!! !!

Well, actually, you just might be an aspie. Then again, you might have OCD, but be otherwise "normal".

Asperger's seems to have a few things in common with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, such as fixations and an absolute feeling of correctness. Perhaps Asperger's, in a sense, is like a less severe version of OCD?

YMBAAI you have compiled 31 pages of your personal "You might be an Aspie if..." examples. (Don't worry, not posting them all).

YMBAAI those 31 pages would actually only be about 10 pages if writing nicely didn't take so long & hurt your hand.

YMBAAI you find yourself conducting along to music... with your feet.
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In regards to the previous discussion regarding the niceness of the lead-lined vests at the dentist: I had to go to the dentist & while waiting, ended up curled in a ball under my hoodie because I was cold & having an edgy day & felt like being covered. When I got the chance to ask for a blanket, it turned out they had all gone to the laundry. So my dentist went & got his Norwegian army surplus winter parka to cover me with. Absolutely the best thing ever! It has the weight of the lead vest, but is furry inside. I'm seriously going to try to track a couple down & make a blanket out of them.

YMBAAI you were actually sort of sad to leave the dentist because you were so comfy under the above coat.

YMBAAI you discussed hemostats with your dentist & concluded that they were the medical version of vise-grips.

YMBAAI your dentist made a joke & it took you a minute to get it, but then you laughed (probably in a totally loud & obnoxious way) & have been giggling about it all day.

YMBAAI it's going to drive you nuts if I don't share the joke...

(The joke: I was a bit dopey on nitrous oxide & was telling my dentist that I appreciate him telling me that a shot is going to sting & not trying to take me by surprise or tell me it's not going to hurt.... He said "I'm the only guy in the world who likes to hear a pretty girl to say 'I didn't feel a thing. It's like you weren't even there.'" )

YMBAAI it takes a while to get the joke above or don't get it at all...

(Explanation: In an intimate situation, a girl saying she doesn't feel anything would be an insult to the guy. Therefore, it's not something most guys would ever want to hear. He was being ironic about how the statement might mean totally different things in two different situations).

RR

YMBAAI your partner/husband/person closest to you is constantly telling you you're speaking too quietly or speaking too loudly, and you have absolutely no idea.

YMBAAI when your friends jokingly tell you you can't sit with them (at lunch, in library, etc.), you walk away dejected to sit somewhere else and spend the rest of the day trying to figure out why they don't like you anymore.

YMBAAI you can listen to the same song (or same 15 seconds of a song) hundreds of times in a row.

YMBAAI you cannot make small talk.

YMBAAI there are certain things you just HAVE to touch...mine are beads/buttons/seeds in a bin, ridges, and "old stuff". Makes me physically uncomfortable to not touch them!

You might be a aspie if while reading this post you remembered your love for freecell and decided to take up the challenge of doing all the games again.

does your previous 1843 games count towards the total if you haven't played in a long time? or do you have to start at 1 again ?
I got into playing spider solitaire and hearts.


love your list

1. check ..
2. check
3. check
4. maybe
5. sometimes
6. could care less about people being gay etc and never could understand why those who do .. do. Its not like anyone is forcing them to take notice or change themselves into being gay.. Mehh I think i found one of my hot topic buttons.. (no im not gay but it annoys the hell out of me people make such a big damn fuss over it) If your not gay move on... sigh.............. stop typing and just hit the submit button.

EDIT....

I just had to add one more i thought up ..

You just might be a aspie if you realize that no one in this world is "Normal" and everyone is weird in some way. .. then while trying to type this out completely forget the exact wording you had in your head and post only a shadow of the original idea. bahh

or your obsessing over a post on the forums you made and see 69 people have viewed it but no one has responded and it makes you think maybe people don't like you.. Even if you have only just joined. Then you edit this post to fess up you just realized it is 1 AM in the morning.