You Might be an Aspie if...

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Assuming this is one of those kinds of threats were people joke around:

If you use windows speech recognition in order to help you articulate your speech, kind of like what I'm doing right now to type this. lol (although it's not very accurate in recognizing what I'm saying sometimes)

...you can navigate your home in the dark without a glitch, but run into everything in broad daylight.

You might be an aspie if you get anxious in the supermarket for not knowing the rules of conduct, where to leave the cart, etc...

Happened to me past week, I just dropped it somewhere no one would notice. They didn't.

I do that! I used to work in store and now I can't stop myself from straightening the shelves.

You know you're an Aspie when you get intensely irritated when the nook-version of the set of short stories you just bought is out of order when compared to your hard copy, and it frustrates and upsets you so much that you spend all night complaining about how terrible it is to your mother who really doesn't care at all. (Stupid publishers ought to know that you can't put the Sherlock Holmes episode where Holmes "dies" after the episode where he comes back to Watson after a 3 year fake-death sabbatical!)

... you're hungry and you want to eat breakfast but you refuse to go into the kitchen since you can hear other people are there. So you decide to stay hungry for a while longer instead of having to participate in awkward small talk with some of your dorm mates.

... you get anxious when you're supposed to have some sort of meeting at a place you've never been to before (you also get very anxious because you don't know exactly what's going to happen there). So you decide to go for a "trial run" (or whatever it's called) the day before the meeting. While on the "trial run" you figure out exactly which bus to take when and where, exactly which way you're supposed to walk from the bus to the meeting, how far it is and how long it takes to get there.

... you've listened to one song on repeat (without listening to any other song in between) 450 times.

... you do the same things every day.

... you need to plan all activities at least 24 hours in advance.

... you've decided to meet someone at their house at 7pm and you arrive at 6.50pm (because you always arrive about 10 minutes early) but instead of knocking on their door when you arrive you wait until exactly 7pm sharp until you do so (because 7pm was the time you agreed on).

Some one here wants to meet you and you cant imagine why (that's because you think your rubbish, but thats ok you feel that way about every one else to )

You unplug your landline phone the night before your day off because you don't want to be called in to work the next morning, not because you are disrespectful, but because you hate sudden changes at the last minute. If you've got a day to yourself, then you're going to get a day to yourself!

Let's see...I'm sure some of these are repeats, or just idiosyncrasies of mine, but we shall see!

- you know full well you are capable of driving a car, but the thought of multitasking 20 processes at once, while being responsible for your life and those of everyone on the road gets the anxiety motor running. Either way, flying, trains, and walking are all safer anyway.

- To get out of your head before bed, you run through the events of the day quickly to try and analyze "how you did", then retreat into a daydream about your current obsession or made-up world just so you don't have hyperactive thoughts running around in your head

- you're too afraid to talk to people about "how you feel", worries and the like, so you imagine talking to them in your head, and try to imitate their reactions as best you can

- for a while, you worried about being a sociopath because how worried that would make your family and friends. Then you realized that couldn't be it because of how much you worried about them

- best feeling in the world to just stand under the open sky and look up and just think real hard at the universe

- social taunting from "peers" never really bothered me because I never saw them as peers - teachers and the Internet were much more deserving of respect

- teaching others is both challenging due to the social aspect and thinking in a different way, but also rewarding because I can see how others process problems and try to explain step by step how cool what we're doing is, in the grand scheme of things

- you want to be immortal not because of how much effect you could have on the world or to take care of your descendants, but because having a stable viewpoint on the progress of history would have been very useful, and because you want to see what cool things will happen, technologically and socially. Also you want to go to space, dammit.

- you didn't want to be something normal, growing up (astrogeophysicist since I was 6, here. Got to university riding that boat, discovered geochem is much more in line with my interests)

- you couldn't stop reading a book, for sleep, for food, for anything. If I started a book (life is busier now than high school), I would expect to buy the sequel the next day - and these were 300+ page books (mostly fantasy and sci-fi, of course). How can I sleep if my brain is imagining where they were going next, anyway? Just need to finish it, not going to sleep anyway!

- I'm happy as a clam to invite people to my apartment, as long as I can go off and do my own thing while they're occupied with my full stock of games. They've gotten used to it! I still dislike going to other people's houses because there is no exit and I have to perform full time.

- you get random nice people ask "are you okay?", or say "you're awesome, stop looking so sad!"...apparently my neutral face looks depressed or angry, when really I'm happy as a clam just thinking to myself without needing to look like anything in particular. Luckily it also acts as nice-people radar, and hell, even when I'm perfectly content, it's still nice to hear!

Okay, stopping now though there are many, many more.

You know you're an aspie if...

You know who Lorna Wing, Uta Frith, Tony Attwood, Liane Holliday Willey, and Simon Baron-Cohen are.

Temple Grandin is your hero.

You know what AS, ASD, NT, SPD, and TOM stand for.

You use words like hyperlexia or prosopagnosia and actually know what they mean.