decodingGERMANS Official: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook

decodingGERMANS

📚🇩🇪 Memes & insights on German culture! Join the fun!

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 the Dishwasher (Decoding Germans)
 
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 the Dishwasher (Decoding Germans)Kyle LynchPaperbackYou 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.
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 the Dishwasher (Decoding Germans)Kyle LynchHardcoverYou 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.
Am I Autistic or German? or Both? VOLUME 2: A Funny Coffee Table Book, Bathroom Reader, Personality Test: You Know You Need It If You Have a System for Loading the Dishwasher (Decoding Germans)
 
How to Survive a German Christmas Season: Want to Be German This Christmas Season? A Funny Christmas Trivia Quiz Book on German Traditions & Culture for Adults, Families and Expats
 
How to Survive a German Christmas Season: Want to Be German This Christmas Season? A Funny Christmas Trivia Quiz Book on German Traditions & Culture for Adults, Families and Expats (Decoding Germans)Kyle LynchPaperbackChristmas in Germany comes with rules. Rules that nobody tells you about. Until now! Can you light all four Advent candles whenever you like? What do you do with your empty Glühwein mug? When do German children actually open their presents? And why do some Germans carry a fish scale around all year? How to Survive a German Christmas Season is a quiz book that takes you through the whole season, from the first gingerbread on supermarket shelves to the day the tree finally comes down in January. Tick your answer, turn the page and get the verdict, plus the story behind each custom and the very German reason it's done exactly this way. Every question is about a real tradition, and some of the answers will surprise even Germans. Inside you'll find: * 55 true-or-false and multiple-choice questions in the order things happen: St Martin's lanterns, Advent wreath etiquette, Christmas markets, Nikolaus and his stern companion, office Secret Santa, Christmas Eve, the Christmas goose and New Year's Eve * An answer page for every question: what happens, why Germans do it and where it comes from * Practical tips for guests, from Christmas market manners to Christmas Eve with a German family * A generation barometer showing how seriously Boomers, Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z take each tradition * A final score that reveals how German you really are, from Clueless Tourist to Das Christkind Personal A thoughtful gift for: * Expats, students and anyone spending their first Christmas in Germany * Partners of Germans, anyone with German in-laws and anyone with German roots * Germans who think they know their own traditions inside out * Families and friends looking for a festive quiz night over the holidays * Christmas market fans, Secret Santa swaps and stocking stuffers Grab a pencil, a warm drink and, ideally, a German. Want to be German this Christmas season? Let's find out.