Am I Autistic or German? or Both?: A Funny Coffee Table Book, Bathroom Reader, Personality Test: You Know You Need It If You Have a System for Loading (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798194320455)

You get quietly annoyed when someone is three minutes late. You have a system for loading the dishwasher, and it is not up for discussion. You have opinions about bread.

Is that a culture, or is that a diagnosis?

55 everyday situations. Two answers each. One of them needs explaining.

Every page drops you into a very specific, very ordinary moment - the third hotel in eight days, the bakery two streets further, the four plates and a pan after dinner - and offers two entirely reasonable reactions. One is a classic autistic trait. One is a classic German one. Circle whichever sounds more like you.

Then you turn the page. We tell you which was which - and, more usefully, where the German one comes from. Why order in Germany is something you restore rather than maintain. Why the bread thing is real. Why a seat reservation on a half-empty train is a rational purchase. It is the rare gift book you finish knowing something.

At the end you plot your score on a grid and find out where you land between Ultimate Monk and Ultimate Markus.

Inside:

• 55 situations, each with one autistic answer and one German one
• A short explanation of the cultural logic behind every German answer
• A two-page scoring worksheet and your personal German-to-Autistic ratio
• Exactly one linguistic fact about trains that will not leave you alone

Made for: Germans who suspect they may be more than just German. Autistic adults who have been told they would "fit right in over there." Expats, exchange students, anyone with a German partner, in-law, colleague or flatmate. Anyone whose friends have made the joke and nobody has ever settled it.

Fits a coat pocket, a Christmas stocking, or the small shelf beside the toilet where the honest books live.

Not a diagnostic tool. It cannot tell you whether you are autistic - that is a conversation for a qualified professional, not a gift book. Unless you laminate your results, in which case we may have an answer.