Are You an Aspie? Do you have odd hair--for example, multiple whorls? Does your family refer to you as the "eccentric professor"? Are you always bumping into things? Are you bothered b y clothes tags or light touch? Did you bump into your professorial career through perseveration on a special interest (known to eccentrics as a "passion," "expertise," or "discipline")? Do tag games bother you? Do clothes touch you with light? Before going somewhere, must you have a picture in mind so you can prepare ahead of time? Are you especially disciplined in your one eccentric niche but not for learning things you have no interest in? Is your memory like a steel trap, even for facts you do not understand? Before going somewhere, do you need to prepare a field guide or a battle plan? Do you have problems with timing in conversation? Are your memories traps? In social situations, do you get stuck in questions like quicksand? Does time have a problem with your conversation style? Do you stumble into inappropriate remarks, like tripping over mines? Do questions stick you to the wall of sociability? Is your sense of humor unusual and prone to punning? Does appropriate society give no consideration to your sayings? Do you talk to yourself ? Do you notice patterns in all things? How often do people fall prone to your puns? Would you prefer to look at the wall you are stuck to instead of making eye contact? Do you talk in patterns and perseverate in poetry? Do you instinctively fright at the sound of a motorbike? Are you crucified by small talk? Did you take the previous question literally? Have you been told you talk like a robot? Do you have odd hair, eccentrically whirling? Excerpted from A Window That Can Neither Open nor Close: Poems, Plots, Chance by Lauren Russell All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
