You Might be an Aspie if...

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You inspect every gift for sensory problems.
Basic things like books might have weirdly-textured pages.
Clothing might have a scent.
Heaven forbid anything have a seam.
Pretty much everything goes back to the store, even if you chose it.

...if you're conspicuous.

You wear something uncomfortable for five minutes.
You can still feel it hurting your skin hours later.

You either don't act happy and surprised when you open your holiday gifts or force yourself to look that way due to years of high-masking.

You don't get surprise gifts, ever.
People have learned that you're too picky about the sensory requirements.
They make you choose your own gifts, pay for them, and wrap them.
Even then you don't usually keep them.

You hate being seen as picky.

your husband has to set up girly dates for you with his female friends or relatives just to give you a little social life because otherwise you wont ever socialise with anybody other than him and your son

If this ^ sounds horrible, because you have no desire for playdates or a social life at all beyond your partner and kids.

I wouldn't want anyone arranging plans on my behalf.
Making them "girly dates" sounds even worse.


No offence Caz. I hope you like it. That's just not my cuppa tea at all.

Prob my fav thread on here

Your childhood was spent with anxiety and fear of being "found out"

If I howl on the trains, and don’t give a s**t what people think.

…you can identify locations purely by smell.

If your spouse is getting better at lining jars up neatly with their labels facing forward.

I'm a no-particular-order person myself.
It's likely my ADHD.

I have breakthrough moments of precision though.
Today I was carrying individual specks of dust to the trash.