You Might be an Aspie if...

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This. NTs want to be on top of each other all the time, it's annoying. I need space, even from people I honestly enjoy spending time with.

YMBAAI: You are going somewhere a bit posh, and you don't have any dress shoes with you. You call up your friend in a panic, all "What shall I do? What shall I dooooo?!" and he, annoyed, tells you to just wear slippers... so you do.

Not me. Bob Geldof. *chants* One of us, one of us!

... you research a company thoroughly online, and then pretend that you walked in by accident.

... you schedule play time with your cat.

* You ask your mother if she recalls anything that would support an ASD diagnosis, and the primary things she remembers from your childhood are your interests.

HAHA bolded the two I really relate to.

YMBAAI:
You jump about a mile if your boyfriend's foot touches yours AT ALL when your sitting on the couch together.

You can hear someone typing (quietly) all the way across the house when there is heavy metal music blaring less than five feet away.

You can read Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy in less than a week... AND comprehend it.

The sound of the power surging in a quiet house can wake you from REM sleep.

When you wake up in the morning, your boyfriend asks if you were dreaming about becoming a butterfly because you wrapped yourself so tight in the blankets.... and you live in Florida... in summertime.

Your family raises their hands when you're talking to them. LOL

Your computer desk is cleaner than your kitchen.

You don't turn up the music in your car because you love it so... or that you're trying to be obnoxious... but because you can't stand the sound of the road under your tires.

If someone touches your arm lightly you scream "Stop tickling me!"

You remember the phone number of your high school boyfriend (12 years later) and you were only dating about 6 months.

If you forget your wallet, you'll be fine, because you memorized your license number, your credit card number, your insurance policy number and your checking account number, all within a day of receiving said cards.

Your nurse friends call you for advice sometimes, even though you've never had a day of nursing school in your life, because of your extensive googling.

Your boyfriend got rush treatment for heart issues, because you explained to the cardiologist the reasons why it shouldn't be postponed more than a few days.

Your mom threw away prescription inserts while you were growing up because after about 5 minutes of sitting on the couch, you would know about every contraindication every known to man.

The only medical thing you never researched was AS... until four different people told you they thought you had it LMAO

(BTW My obsession is pretty obvious huh? LOL Yes I plan on going to nursing school, when finances and everything are better)

And last but not least.... You check your emails every 30 minutes, but return one maybe once a year. LOL

All of these, especially the second one.

... you've been obsessed with psycology for over 10 years but always avoided reading about autism couse you were so jeolus that there were people who were alowed to be alone with their intressts without pressure to socialize.

(Never realized that that was an obvious sign untill someone pointed it out)

You've had the same favourite rock band since you were 9 and you're now 36.

The other day I suddenly remembered telling my farmer cousin all about gallium(which was my favorite metal), lasers and semiconductors because they wondered how LCD watch displays worked. We were seven years old.

You might be an aspie if you also knew more about chickens than he did.

...you didn't know what a smirk looked like until you googled it

...you haven't been to a 'proper' concert because you think there will be too many people there, and that it will be too loud.

...you went to a school concert and put your fingers in your ears but still felt like the trumpets were spliting your ear drums, and the back light felt like it was burning your ears.

...you decline a lift home, just so you can continue your route as planned.

...you thought a teacher was angry until someone pointed out that the teeth baring thing was actually cooing.

...you tried to talk to someone who was nice to you, told them their hair looked like it was a different shade at the top to the bottom because somebody told you that was the in look and didn't realise they were insulted until someone told you.

...you hate the hair dressers because you can't stand people touching your head and by extension your hair.

...you didn't realise someone hated you until another person told you they thought you were a ret*d.

...you thought everyone stimmed, but just that they were more secretive about it.

...you reply to someone honestly, only to be told they were joking/being sarcastic.

...you either raise your hand to speak or interrupt.

...you have never been able tell the difference between your turn to speak and the speaker taking a pause before the next sentence.

...you have read more books on non-verbal communication than most of your peers.

...you can recite parts of those books.

...you still can't work out what people are (not) 'saying'.

...you assumed you smiled when everyone else did until you walked past the mirror whilst flapping your hands when excited.

...you asked a friend if they had noticed it.

...you use emoticons to express your internal emotions, or tone, even though the expression didn't come onto your face and people probably wouldn't have known you were joking if you had actually said it.

...you told your mother that people should have sarcasm signs years before you saw The Big Bang Theory.

...you were about as clued in on some of the parts of the programme as Sheldon and actually learnt from parts of it.

...you have been sat down and encouraged to mimic gestures.

...you thought friends were pointless until you got to 13 and thought you might like some.

...you then realised you couldn't hold a conversation properly, and that you had never been able to

...you now have three friends: One has Asperger's, one is probably BAP and the other is a boy.

...you know that all three of your friends are on the 'Gifted and Talented' register.

...you spend more time discussing history and politics with those friends than anything else.

...you have only ever met up with one of them outside of school and the last time was months ago for someone's birthday.

...you don't want to go to prom, but your mother is making you and your head of year said you could talk to them if you wanted.

...you have never been to a House Party which involves drinking unless it was a family party

...you probably would have declined if you had been invited.

...you hid in the kitchen at the last family party, so you wouldn't have to speak to anyone.

...you are more distressed by the sound of people shouting at you than what they're shouting about.

...you can't work out which of a series of verbal instructions you are supposed to do first and when you decide to do them from first to last you are already so anxious that when you get told you were supposed to do them in a different order or that you have something else to do, you end up having a melt down.

...you don't know who McJagger is.

You might be an Aspie if you can count the number of parties you've been to in your life.

Most NTs have been to too many parties to count in their lives.

...and after reading this you look down at your computer desk and feel surprised at the mess on it.

Mick Jagger, maybe?

I can relate to this one, I can hear the slightest out of place sound in a room full of roaring machinery, but I can't sort out a conversation with more than two people.

...you feel "cool" because you figured out who McJagger was, even if it took you like an hour of sounding it out to get it.

... you use quotation marks around the word "cool" in your last forum post, because you can highly relate to the people also on the site, that may have trouble understanding you're not talking about tempurature unless you add said quotation marks.