You Might be an Aspie if...

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If when you were 4 your teen neighbor who loved to babysit me because she got paid to have a math tutor instead of the other way 'round.

An old Aspie if in your first few grades some teacher wanted to put you in special ed because they thought you might be autistic, but then decided what you really needed was advanced learning because they then thought that since you were not ret*d you must be gifted and bored. For me, Asperger's was not in the DSM until I was already an adult.

You can remember all sorts of things that caught your interest at one time, very detailed esoteric things, that you will remember for years and years, but can't for the life of you without a supreme effort of discipline manage to remember your wallet, watch, cell, keys, or even pants, and etcetera et al in the morning when leaving for work. And if someone speaks to you while you are trying to assemble all these things, you are guarenteed to forget at least one.

Lol... I s*** at maths, but geometry is extremely easy in my opinion, so when there was a voluntary extra geometry class I just went there. Turned out that it was really great... although I was one year lower than them I didn't know the stuff the other students already knew, I was best. And one day we were supposed to continue a rail drawn in the central perspective (the perspective was somewhat crooked, so it wasn't too simple)... And while all the others connetected all the different parallel lines to different central points in a very complicated way... I looked at the picture for a while, lengthend a certain set of parallel lines, drew special line going throw these... and had all the information I needed to finish the rail.
The teacher that wondered why I was already done, looked at my picture, compared it to hers (which looked much more untidy and wasn't quite as accurate in the small, distant parts)... and said that I got it right but that she had know idea whatsoever on how my solution worked out ^^

You know you're an aspie when you have an obsession with weather for YEARS as a kid.

My mom told me last night that when I was a kid I had notebooks full of drawings I did of tornadoes and thunderstorms. I also did lots of projects in elementary school about weather and tornadoes.
Then I got into an obsession with trains. Then Beanie Babies. Then I learned about pokemon and I went into an obsession with that for a couple of years.

She told me that she didn't think the tornado/storm drawings were AS, she just thought I was depressed but she didn't think that was right because I loved to talk about weather all the time. And now she feels bad :/

Hehe, my first book was an equivalent of the ''The Mayo Clinic's Guidebook For Healthy Pregnancy'' of its time. I was four at the time. Don't know however the book has gotten into my hands in the first place but I remember that I quite liked it and I can still remember a couple of lines from it.
When I was about 12, a relative of mine asked me whether my parents ever told me how babies came. I said 'no', because it was true - they didn't, it would have been pointless anyway as they knew it I had read it all in a book long time ago. The relative was outraged and treated me to a lecture about the birds and the bees while my mother was in the next room, trying to stifle her laughter

... when there's a tour to a town, and you are the only one to leave the coach alone, walk along the city walls, go to the park and don't like it because it's full of people without a private space, then visit a museum, be fed up because the art exhibition is too small, go to the history section, read every description carefully and write down all the words you don't know* in order to look them up later... and the others spent their time shopping.

*I'm German, but currently I'm studying abroad in England for a year.

Y'know, in my late teens I hammered my mom hard on how she treated me over my toys as a kid, and pretty much wouldn't let up cause they meant so much to me. She was in tears, insisting that she felt bad and was so sorry about it.

And yeah, I do believe her. Again, I think she was Autistic as well.

... Your friends are anoyed with you couse you always sort the playing cards in every deck you come across.
(Ace to king and hearts,spade, diamonds, clover)

You wish that you were the opposite sex, or is that knowing that you're Gay?

I'd say no, it's not.

You know when you're an Aspie when....

...Medical textbooks are your favorite things to read.
...in first grade, you're worst fears were tetanus, whooping cough, diptheria, comas, anaphylactic shock, stroke, oxygen deprivation, loss of conciousness, paint, heart attacks, and polio.
...you memorized dog breeds, their personalities, and the diseases that you are supposed to vaccinate them against.
...you're reading on a ninth grade level and writing at a tenth grade level when you're a fifth grader, but they think you're mentally ret*d because of your behavior and lack of spacial reasoning.
...when you learn to read at the age of two, which your grandfather exploited at church.
...when your sister is jealous of you reading at the age of two because she didn't know what the letters meant.
...your career choices consist of special education teacher, psychologist, MBTI type practitioner, hospital clown, forensic anthropologist, mangaka, writer, artist, and rare disease specialist...all in a three-year timespan.
...you correct your teachers on their grammatical, syntaxical, and spelling errors (I did that in fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade...and I still do it).
...you annoy your friends by correcting their grammar.
...you cry when a commercial about a premature baby, an animal shelter, or a learning disabled kid comes on, but you don't understand the importance of a normal, socially acceptable kid or a boyfriend...and you never did.
...when you would rather talk to your best friend about Pokemon, personality types, psychology, or ideas than fashion, boys, and clothes.
...when you scream at your classmates for being racist, and they all want you to stop.
...you rate everyone honestly, yet when it's come time for your rating, you get consistently poor scores from popular people.
...people say you watch too much anime.
...people call you weird.
...you have more compassion for little kids, Vocaloid, or the underdog than for normal people.
...you like your weirdness.

....if you read this thread and believe you found the family that gave you up for adoption as a baby.

you might be an aspie if you go around acting strange around other people...

indeed...

If you ask someone with bad acne "what is wrong with their face."

(True story, a friend had what looked like a really bad bruise on her face. Everyone else simply ignored it, but I had to ask if she had hurt herself :/.)

You might be an Aspie if ...

you feel an urge to debate whether every "you might be an aspie if" joke posted here is really typically Aspie or not

You might be an aspie if:

you can clearly see that humanity is doomed for destruction because most NT's are such sheeple, but no one takes you seriously.