You Might be an Aspie if...

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... if at school you had no idea what the course you just had was about because you spent your time in your own world.
... if your "friends" avoid you because they asked for your opinion and somehow they didn't appreciate your answer, which apparently was rude, mean, or whatever.
... if in uni people knew where to find you during the break: all alone in the computer room.
... if you hear "I already told you that" on a regular basis, because you pay so much attention that you've never actually heard any of it.

I can sing entire songs in French or English but if you ask me what they are about, i'll have no idea I would have to really pay attention in order to put the words together and think of the overall meaning, not sure I would sustain that level of focus until the end of the song though. Tried many times "this time i'm listening", and when the song is over "damn i zoned out again!"

i can never even understand the words lol... when i care enough, i just look up the lyrics on the internet XD

I do this big time. Didn't realize it was an AS trait until I read this...now I feel better. I thought I was just a slob, but truth is I hate changing my clothes.

Ha ha.

"But Daddy, bunnies don't drive cars...."

"oh, don't they?"

if it makes you feel any better, i don't feel the need to change clothes either, be it from day to day, or from day/night. As long as they don't stink i'm good
Then I noticed people were paying a lot of unnecessary attention to your clothes, if you change them, etc., so now I rotate to avoid the death penalty. I have three clothings that i keep for a while but put one at a time. Before putting one on, I smell it and if it's smell-free I put it on My colleagues haven't noticed a thing

YMBAAI talking to stranger makes your head hurt.

I have multiple pairs of the same clothes, they feel unclean after a day or two then I change. Three pairs of black jeans, 5 pairs of black shirts.

That does make me feel better, thanks. I wear gray yoga pants and then I'll wear them to bed. And when I wake up in the morning, I'll take a shower and put on clean underwear but those same gray yoga pants that I wore for several days go right back on again, lol.

Avarice, thanks for the idea! I should go get several pairs of my gray yoga pants so I can rotate through them. I have 5 versions of the same T-shirt that I love, but I haven't done that with pants yet.

Oh! I do that all the time too! But I decided to trust myself. I'm always really quick to react if something happens, even while daydreaming. I think it only feels freaky. I'll bet you're still just as ready for anything to happen. Otherwise you'd be different from me, and I can't handle that...



I HATE dangling prepositions!! !! !
Here's one of mine relating to grammar:
YMBAA if you screamed out loud when Oxford declared it to be grammatically correct to split infinitives!! !
For crying out loud, someone made up these rules, someone decided it was important for me to learn them if I wanted to graduate high school, I put all the time and effort into learning them, and then they (Oxford) arbitrarily decided it's ok to knowingly split infinitives!



All three of these! For me, it was always Tommy and Pink Floyd The Wall. I understood the story in the rock opera Tommy because my mom explained it all to me, but most of Pink Floyd's words (all albums) have, despite their artistic genius, just been a part of the song. (This leads to nice surprises years later when I actually pay attention to them!)

And instead of dog food, I once went into a gas station and gave the clerk a $10 bill, even though he insisted that I hadn't pumped any gas. Later on, as I pulled into the parking lot where I worked, I noticed my gas gauge was still on empty. That was an embarrassing one to go back and explain to the next clerk on duty!



Bingo!
While I was still working, I had to bring a notepad along every time I spoke with my boss. I had to quit listening and start writing. Then I'd just set the notepad aside and continue surfing.

. . . you got out of the military because of the phrase "close enough for government work" and everything that goes with it.

. . . you would rather stand the midnight watch in the lower level of the engine room on a nuclear submarine than go out sight-seeing in a new (to you) country.

. . . you have an elaborate and detailed system for the storage of the books on your shelves that makes no sense to anyone else, no matter how many times you explain it to them.

. . . you read every description of every menu item at a restaurant you've been to 100 times before finally settling for the exact same order that you gotten every other time you've gone.

. . . you read every word printed on every product you purchase, but not because you care about the products.

. . . you're "that weird guy that hangs out by himself in the kitchen" at parties you are obligated to attend, and that's ok with you.

. . . you get the nickname "the professor" due to your tendency to give 10-20 minute responses when someone says "I wonder why . . ."

. . . you feel uncomfortable watching 'Planet Earth' on a large screen HD TV, but don't quite know why.

. . . you can listen to music at a volume that is painful to most people, but when the TV is on you simply must have the sound turned so low that others complain they don't know what is being said.

. . . your idea of a romantic gift is changing the oil in your wife's car or organising her CDs into a logical order.

Except that this one I can agree with. The original rule was conceived because teachers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were upset that they had to teach children to read and write in English, rather than Latin (to them the only proper language), so they invented "rules" to make English more like Latin. The thing is, in Latin you can't split an infinitive - it's one word. Same for dangling participles - the structure of the language doesn't allow them. So some very silly rules were instituted to make English act more like a dead language popular with an extinct empire...

...besides, if this rule were to be followed strictly, William Shatner could never have solemnly intoned that the mission of the starship Enterprise was "to boldly go where no man has gone before!"

This one drives me nuts. Then I went to my son's school and was able to substitute teach in a room of Aspies. At least half of them were just as rumpled and dirty as mine.

Then my second Aspie son is the opposite. If he gets so much as a drop of water on an outfit he has to change the whole thing.

Kiley

i do that! i like my music and movies (only certain ones like LOTR and Dark Knight) to be really loud, but when the tv is on with regular television it has to be really low or i'll freak out =P

Last edited by torako on 29 Apr 2010, 11:28 am, edited 1 time in total.

Hmm... Maybe those kids know something you don't? No one's ever been able to explain to me why wrinkled or even dirty clothes were a bad thing. (I understand the smelly bit though.) If you don't like the look, can't you just look somewhere else? Is that just part of the arbitrary social rules that NTs never think to question? (Do I sound hostile? I don't mean to. I'm just having some fun with this.) Think of the savings on clothing and laundry costs, the reduced carbon footprint and environmental contamination we could effect by simply agreeing that "fashionable," unwrinkled, stain-free, and tear-free clothing is a really silly thing to worry about!

Now I want to go bludgeon a mammoth to feed my village and to create my one and only garment, and it will be stained!

Wow! I totally did not know that. Now I wanna have a little aspie rage on the knuckleheads in the 17th & 18th centuries who started the whole thing.

Here's a related quote you might like:


He's so right!

i'm sorry dude but i won't be able to explain it either. I never iron my clothes,i don't see what's the point (except wasting time);
i don't get why a stain is trouble either. Clothes protect you from cold, sunburn too. The stain or wrinkles don't get in the way of that protection