Xena_Sophia wrote:
-When you absentmindedly start reading the brochures behind the athletic trainer's desk instead of making eye contact, and they proceed to tell you that you weren't making eye contact...
-When you listening to an emotionally charged campaign speech for student government and barely react, while most of your classmates are moved close to tears...
-When you spend six hours reading something fascinating, only to realize that you have school starting at 8AM tomorrow and it's 5AM.
-When you find going to homecoming more daunting than reading about string theory.
Yes, yes, yes, and yes...
Like, #2, when speakers start to get wound up by the sound of their own voice, it all turns to blah, blah, blah in my ears... and I start picturing them in correlation to the music in my head and make a music video out of it rather than an emotionally charged (whatever that means) speech.
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AS quotient: Scored 42
Your Aspie score: 175 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 30 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie