You Might be an Aspie if...

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Here are a few more. You know you're an Aspie when ...

... your manager (or someone else) said something you didn't understand and you're still trying to figure it out, even though it was three months ago.

... you're in church, singing hymns/songs (or if you're in some sort of social situation or something), and all you can think about when standing up is what the heck to do with your arms.

... people often say (or said) that you're a lone wolf, that you're like a brain on two legs and/or that you're wise beyond your years.

... you tend to smile or laugh at inappropriate times. For example when you want to verbally express emotions such as frustration or annoyance. And because you smile in those situations, people don't take it seriously.

... you rock back and forth in public and people laugh and tell your boyfriend to buy you a rocking chair.

That sounds like something I have experienced many times. When I was younger, it was a lot worse and when something troubled me about my special interest, I would almost panic and become very upset. Sometimes it would bother me so much, I would be unable to sleep all night just about, worrying about it. I still experience this sometimes, but it's not as severe as it was.

Maybe I should add some things... hmm...

You know you're an Aspie if you love watching objects spin. I know I love watching objects spin!

I suspect I am an Aspie, but am not entirely 100% certain what is going on in my brain. I'm definitely not and never have been NT that's for sure! I do believe I have a combination of NT and Aspie traits, so, I must be a mixture.

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If you have more conversations in your head than social conversations

If your best friend is your general obsession... or your cat; and your worst enemy is the ever-so over-populated high school in which you must keep a low absent rate in the next two years in order to receive an education which doesn't include people!

That would be me. I always said I lived in my head.

—When you consistently get laughs off people, but as soon as you come up with something you truly find witty, it seems to go unnoticed.

—When you get the impression friends count you out of at least half of the things they do together. Too often I seem to find out the next day that my housemates/etc have done something together that I would've at least apprectiated to have been mentioned to me.

Oh that is just the kind of social suffering I know of.

I'm quite relieved to hear that. When it happens I wonder if I'm just self-destructing from paranoia.

YES!

You might be an aspie...

If you speak along with the automated voice introducing your voice mail
If you make the facial expressions described in the book while you are reading
If you know how many seconds there are in each phase of your intermittent wipers
If you know how many dings the seat belt reminder makes, and the interval between sets... and you keep listening to make sure the car gets it right.

I haven't ever exactly done this before, but I have imitated the facial expressions of others I have seen in pictures, or those of people I know, after they were not around anymore.

And the #1 reason lunchtime in high school depressed me is!....

DING DING DING! Exactly! I hated coming in on Monday just to hear all my "friends" talk about how much fun they had over the weekend together. You know, that weekend where my phone was completely silent? Where nobody came to my door? In fact...

You know you're an Aspie when you see friends in a TV show just randomly show up, unannounced, at each others' houses to hang out, and you wonder, "Who in the world actually does that?!"

...You know you're an Aspie when the answer suddenly hits you: "...Everyone but me..."

If you bit a gel who told you to bite her. Weird but sadly true

When someone tells you know a lot about something as you are talking about it.

... When you take what your psychologist said literally when she say's "keep your head up" and physically lift your head up

then a week later you realized she meant it in the form on keeping your mentality up, not your physical head.

you know your an aspie when you sometimes mis-interperate what someone tells you and your guessing what that person told you what to do and kind of pause and freeze for a few minutes trying to figure out what that person told you to do and you come back and ask that person what that person wanted you to do again.

Did the font on this website change for anyone else? All of the sudden, the text is smaller and in a different font.

You know you're an aspie when this upsets you.

edited to add that I'm using chrome and accidentally set it to 90%. I fixed it. Phew.

What rule did I break by saying you come here to be ignored ?