You Might be an Aspie if...

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…you take notes on books you read for fun.

…you read Shakespeare for fun.

…the book you’re reading for fun in high school has more pages than your history textbook.

…in elementary school, you read insect field guides and the dictionary for fun.

...if you didn't realize some people thought reading the dictionary was odd.

...if bigoted members of your family won't accept the fact that you are on the spectrum.

...if members of your family say, "Well, THAT explains everything".

You made me realize now suddenly what my high school head teacher's expression meant when he found out that I was reading a classical Chinese dictionary.

Columnist John Duffie wrote that if he had to choose a single book for the rest of his life, he'd take a dictionary, for all the memories it would evoke. I knew a businessman who would read the Yellow Pages when he didn't have work.

'raises hand'
yeah i read a mini dictionary when i was about 10 years old

I didn't reach this realization until I read this post.

Sigh. I can't even guess how many young relatives I've encouraged to look around in a dictionary because it's interesting.

You write a lengthy email to a friend, describing a colour you've never seen.
You expect them to picture the colour and name it for you.

You memorize the layout of the cruise ship you’re about to sail on.

You can mentally recall a detailed layout of the cruise ship you're on but cannot, to save your life, remember your cabin number.

When you are a guy and the most female attention you get is when you are hospitalized and thus you are too sick to appreciate it.

you fake an injury just to get some female attention in the hospital.

My Mum was like a walking and talking dictionary and could read and write when she was three and when she was six she had read most of the adult books in her local public library which an aunt owned and ran and happened to be next door to where she lived... And when she was the age of eight to nine, for the whole year all her conversations about anything and everything were in rhyme, which drove her Dad mad! Haha! (She grew out of it).
Not surprizingly she ended up as an author, writer where for years she wrote a newspaper column under a different name, and she has been a proof reader, etc etc.
(She stopped proofreading after an author who was not native to Britain asked her to proof read her book which took eight and a half months of work (All done for free) where she totally had to re-write it as her English in both spelling and the way that she wrote things was all wrong...And then the lady decided to have her origional unedited version printed and she made a point of saying thankyou to my Mum in her book for having proof read it! My Mum was not at all amused and was the very last time she proof read for anyone who she was not close friends to. (She often picks up on some awful spelling or punctuation on the world wide news which shows how low their standards have become!)

For me I would read lists of information about railways and trains. Probably forgotton most of it now I am older as I later learned to only read what was useful for me, but in the past in my school and college years I was never without train books and even until fairly recently I was talking a railway book with me as a comfort item.

But for me the real pleasure is in the pictures in the books as I think in pictures and I can often get more from the pictures then I get out of the words.
I am also a great daydreamer! Spend hours and hours in trance-like daydreams if I didn't discipline myself. I can get lost in daydreaming!

I do not know if any of this is relevent to this thread though.

I became aware that reading the dictionary for fun was unusual when my mom would note that about me (labeled as such) to others. But that didn’t make me stop

I had someone's phone number but not their name or address, so I read the entire phone book from A-Z looking for the number. Actually I didn't get to Z because I did find the number, but I can't remember what letter it was. It was very far into the alphabet, though.