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I have had many good and bad nick names and descriptives used about me but my youngest sister who first observed and suggested i had Asperger due to things i had said and that i was looking for answers and she said my brain just operates on a different OS = operating system from the rest of humanity and i instinctively grabbed it because it fits very well. my brain is like a linux while most of humanity is Windows or Mac. I like the analogy a whole bunch because it doesnt take much to see how it fits. Does anyone else get likeable descriptives as well as the bad? Post the descriptives you liked or hated

speaking of different OS, i long have believed that my brain is akin to a 286 sans maths coprocessor, trapped in this world of multithreading pentiums all dodging and swerving 'round me like a deer in the headlights in the middle of the road.. IOW it doesn't even do windows most of the time. but i can't blame it because i don't do windows either, if i can help it. it is easier to curse the cloudy view outside than to get up on a ladder and wipe the damned things clean. this probably didn't make sense to anybody else besides me, and i'm not so sure about the me part.

for its sheer simplicity, I always liked:

'Like an African American at a Klu Klux Klan rally'

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like a long-tailed cat stuck in a room full of rocking chairs.

I was nicknamed Nick, because at school I was told I was 'One sandwich short of a picnic'. It was taunted at me a lot, then one day my brother gave me a card with a picture of a sandwich in it that had a magnet on the back so I could stick it on my locker, and in the card it said 'Now you don't need to worry about being one short of a picnic'.

I lost that name a while ago, and now most people do just call me Hannie (my name) but I'm still sometimes called 'Nestles' because someone once commented that when I was wearing my straw sunhat and tried my friends glasses on I looked like the Milky Bar kid, and mily bar is made by the Nestle company.

I like the cat in a world of dogs description.

my daughter calls me Sheldon (from Big Bang Theory), which is cool. and my ex-husband calls me R2D2, heh.

when referring to Asperger's Syndrome itself, my boyfriend called it "lightly salted autism" which i really liked.

I almost think we could label this aspie humor, it may be a bit off but so far i am smiling and chuckling i think relating to pc os works well even if a bit off base it feels right on in ways that defy words but may help explaining to others that may go further to causing a smile then the negatives we deal with almost daily. but i should say i like my certified wierd card