You Might be an Aspie if...

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- If you change your dinner plans because the microwave is unplugged, or the frying pan is dirty

- when you order pizza you order "2 for 1 special", or extra large because that way you won't have to decide what to eat the next day or 2 and you wont have to deal with another delivery person for next day or 2

- if completing the first step in a multi step tasks feels like a big victory which in turn distracts you from the next step.

- if the idea that "everyone is entitled to an opinion" offends you if someone applies it to something objective, because facts matter

- if you enjoy stand up comedians not just because they can be funny, but also because the 'exaggerations' they use to make the joke seem like an accurate depiction of reality rather than an exaggeration.

- if human interactions on tv shows and movies make more sense than real life interactions,

and bonus points: if you are more likely to identify with a fictional charcters with personality oddities (sherlock holmes, house, and The Doctor from Dr Who for example) than real life people.

Triple bonus if the death of a tv charcter you liked, or canceling of a show you liked can bring more of an emotional response than the death of someone you knew socially (outside of close friends and family).

- if a friend loses a loved one and your response is more intellectual, than emotional even though you do feel badly for them. And the typical platitudes "sorry for your loss" sound hollow. If they say "at least their in a better place" to you it sounds completely moronic.

- if friends come to you for problem solving their personal issues because they trust your rational process more than their emotional one.

- If the phrase "2 is company, 3 is crowd" doesnt have anything to do with romance for you and instead applies to any social interactions

- if drunk people make you uncomfortable because they become too unpredictable

- if you are more comfortable with stoners because they are so chill and calm.

- if you have been kicked out of church for telling the preacher all the flaws with literal interpretations of the bible.

- if your trust a person is 100% absolute. Right up until they do even a small thing you percieve as a challenge to that trust. In which case it goes from 100% to 0% as you now doubt everything about them.

Disclaimer: newly discovered I am ND so still figuring out which traits are actually ASD.

You wish every supermarket had a creche of some sort where parents can leave their kids while doing the grocery shopping, because you hate the noise and unpredictability of kids in the supermarket when you're trying to do your shopping.

You might be an Aspie if ...
When you were a teenager your friends Watched television but you could Repair the television.

Or draw the circuit of a television.

...you hear or even feel someone playing a beat/music by the very weak vibrations in the ground despite the source of the music/noise being far away and it's driving you nuts because it is going on for quite a while.

...you immediately hear your neighbour playing music by the smallest bass vibrations but nobody else in the same house notices it.

...you describe "unwanted" music as noise and are disturbed by it while nobody else is bothered by it.

...you hear the high-pitched frequency of a device like a TV on standby.