AFS

If you have one of the following symptoms I advice you to see your Psychiatrist or read on

There is no cure for it yet, but science is working on it. The moment a cure is found for it it will be seen on this page. But for now just let it take over your mind.

1. You quote Aladdin in all your conversations without even noticing it.
2. Your room could be the local Aladdin Museum.
3. Your friends calls your room "The Cave of Wonders".
4. Your friends calls your car "the Magic Carpet".
5. Your pet parrot's name is Iago... and he has Iago's moods.
6. You know the original movie, the sequels and TV series by heart, word by word.
   6a. You spend hours gathering up information on writers, story editors, animation studios then learn how to use MS Access to produce a database so you can do up an episode guide.
7. You know the original movie, the sequels and TV series by heart, word by word-- in more than one language.
8. You family and friends know the original movie, the sequels and TV series by heart, word by word-- in more than one language.
9. You have a collection of Aladdin songs in 6 different languages and you don't understand most of those languages... but you know the lyrics of the songs anyway.
10. For you the word "shopping" means "Aladdin stuff hunting".
11. You have consider the idea of writing to your President and ask him to consider the song "A Whole New World" as the new National Anthem of your country.
12. You just realized you need a bigger room to store all your Aladdin items.
13. You divide your life in "b.A." (before Aladdin) and "a.A." (after Aladdin).
14. You own an old oil lamp.
15. You did buy that old lamp in a marketplace which looked just like Agrabah's.
16. You actually rub that lamp once in a while.
17. You'd love to be Agrabah's citizen.
18. You have consider the idea of saying that you actually were born in Agrabah but moved to live in your city when you were just a kid.
19. You've starting to use your RPG name as your usual nickname.
20. When your family and friends hear the word "Aladdin" they immediately thinks about you.
21. When your family and friends hear the word "Aladdin" they immediately KNOW you will mysteriously appear there.
22. You are doing an extensive research trying to locate Agrabah on the map.
23. You are seriously thinking about leading an archeological expedition to find Agrabah.
24. You've writing Aladdin fanfics.
25. You ARE writing Aladdin fanfics.
26. When someone asks you about your favorite authors you say: "Wendy, Sedeara, Jill, Cyndi-- etc."
27. When someone asks you about your favorite classic books you say: "The Life of Mine for the Life of Yours", "My Enemy's Keeper", "Together Forever" or something like that.
28. You actually print Aladdin fanfics and then you bind them so you can keep them in your bookcase.
29. In your last birthday or Xmas half the gifts you received were Aladdin-related-- and the other half were wrapped in Aladdin paper.
30. You've consider the idea of name your kids Aladdin and Jasmine.
31. You have consider the idea of have a tiger as your pet
32. You talk about Aladdin and Jasmine as if they were your best friends living next door.
33. You know lots of people all over the world thanks to Aladdin.
34. You learned another language thanks to Aladdin.
35. People call you "Mrs. Streetrat". (don't ask!)
36. You want to remodel your house to look just like Agrabah's palace... or if you don't have enough money to do that, then to look like Aladdin's hovel.
37. You keep practicing that apple trick Aladdin does.
38. You have Aladdin-related dreams.
39. You have Aladdin-related dreams--- and you are not sleeping.
40. Your watch alarm beeps to let you know that Aladdin is about to start on TV.
41. You were for 3 hours looking at your aunt's pictures of her last trip to Morocco just to try to find an Aladdin-like looking boy.
42. You freaked out when you discovered a bunch of black sand in a construction near your home.
43. You stayed awake that night guarding your house.... just in case!
44. When ever you hear the word "Midas" you don't think about the Greeks but about the Arabs.
45. When someone wakes you up you say with a hoarse voice: "Who disturbs my slumber?"
46. The first thing you did when you moved to your college dormitory was to hang an Aladdin poster on the wall.
47. You own more than one copy of the Aladdin video, just in case.
48. You are planning to celebrate with a big party, a parade and fireworks the re-release of Aladdin.
49. You want to buy a purple carpet with golden tassels.
50. You actually own a purple carpet with golden tassels.
51. You buy anything Aladdin, even the more useless stuff.
52. You want to be your city's Mayor just to build a monument to Aladdin and name the main boulevard of your city "Aladdin Road" or something like that.
53. You think your school should include a class about Aladdin in the schedule-- and you are willing to be the teacher.
54. No matter what the subject of the conversation is, you ALWAYS end talking about Aladdin.
55. During election times you put a tag in your car that says: "Aladdin For Sultan".
56. You honestly think that Aladdin could make the peace in the world.
57. You think that Jasmine is really a lucky girl, but you just can't be jealous of her because you like Jasmine so much.
58. You think Aladdin is the most handsome man on earth!
59. You think Jasmine is the most beautiful woman on earth.
60. You think Al and Jas are the most perfect couple in the universe.
61. All your school notebooks are covered with Aladdin pictures.
62. You have an Aladdin homepage.
63. You have several Aladdin webpages and you work almost 24 hours 7 days a week on it.
64. You are a member of the Aladdin Mailing List.
65. You are a member of the Aladdin Mailing List and actually read all the 200 messages you get everyday.
66. You *don't* read all two hundred messages from the Aladdin mailing list because half of them are from you.
67. One of the most important things to do everyday is to check the Aladdin Mailing List for new messages.
68. You check the List for new messages every two hours.
69. Own twenty Disney watches and nineteen of them have pictures of Aladdin characters on them.
70. You refuse to speak to the person who gave you the twentieth watch.
71. You go into the Disney Store and instead of saying something like: "Good morning." or "Welcome to the Disney Store.", the greeter says: "Have you seen our latest Aladdin toys?"
72. You want to have a tattoo with the word "Aladdin" on your body.
73. If that tattoo were in Arab calligraphy that would be even better.
74. You don't mind to use your Aladdin watch at school or work.
75. You have your Aladdin pin on everyday.
76. You have an Aladdin picture as your computer wallpaper and an Aladdin song as your Windows start sound.
77. Your computer directory's name is "Aladdin".
78. You know the original Aladdin script.
79. You know the Aladdin original Aladdin songs from "The Music Behind the Magic".
80. You want Disney to make the original movie they planned before the Howard Ashman died, just to have two Aladdin movies.
81. In your last medical appointment you told your doctor that you were suffering a severe case of AFS.
82. In your last medical appointment YOUR doctor told you that you were suffering a severe case of AFS.
83. You actually know what "AFS" means.
84. You buy Lea's CD just because it has this Lea-Brad duo
85. You can sit down for 6 hours at a time and watch Aladdin episodes you've taped.
86. You make a special tape of your favorite Aladdin scenes and than add Aladdin music to the background.
87. You find yourself singing Aladdin songs at work, while driving, or when you need something to do.
88. You watch Aladdin episodes when you are waiting for something and have nothing to do.
89. You think about Aladdin every morning before you get over of bed and cry if you didn't have the Aladdin dream you wanted.
90. You imagine yourself talking to the characters and think about what you would say.
91. You imagine yourself in Agrabah as a cartoon character during different scenes from the series and movies.
92. You wish with all your heart that Disney would never stop making Aladdin episodes and movies!
93. You wish with all your heart that you could meet the people who love Aladdin as much as you and feel so close to them and so lucky to have them!
94. You know with all your heart that *we* are making magic come true!
95. Do you realize that insomnia isn't so bad, because it gives you *uninterrupted* time to think about Aladdin?
96. Do you put Aladdin and Company on your list of best friends?
97. Do you drop everything no matter where you are if "A Whole New World" comes on TV or on the radio, even though you've seen/heard it a million times before?
98. When someone asks you who you'd want to meet the most you answer: "Linda Larkin, Scott Weinger, Gilbert Gottfried..." or any other name of the Aladdin cast and/or staff.
99. Or when you hope that "Party of Five" next season would be called "Party of Six" and it would feature NOT the Salinger siblings but Aladdin, Jasmine, Genie, Abu, Iago and Carpet.
100. When every time you listen a love song you related it to Al and Jas.
101. You find Aladdin references in other shows. (I've done that in both SeaQuest (in which Jonathan Brandis stars) and in ReBoot (there's a city that looks like a cross between Agrabah and Mos Eisley (from Star Wars)).)
102. Whenever you hear Gottfried's voice, you shout "Iago!"
103. When you see a TV program about tigers you think of Rajah
104. When you see a TV program in a middle-east country you think of Agrabah
105. When you come all the way to Florida and the first thing you wanna do is meet Aladdin, Jasmine, Genie, and Jafar at Disney World
106. When you are listening to Aladdin music
107. When you are lovingly gazing at your Aladdin collection
108. When you see a musical and you place the Aladdin characters in it
109. When Aladdin influences your school work, You recreate scenery from the movie in art class
110. You leave work early so you can meet a fellow Aladdin Mailing Lister at Disneyland!
     (Yes, history has been written the first meeting between two Members of the list has took place at Disneyland.)
111. You seriously consider skipping your anthropology class so you can see what happens in "Into the Fire".
112. When your psychology professor says the word "volatile", all you can think of are Wendy's sites.
113. And when you learn about Psychopaths in abnormal psychology and all you can think is: "All the symptoms match up--Genie was right; Jafar *is* a psychopath!"
114. You've actually written letters to the Aladdin characters--and *love* letters to those of the opposite sex.
115. You plan to buy a little town named Aladdin (no joke)
116. Although you should be paying attention in the anthropology class that pulled you away from your fan-fics, you're busy making one of these lists instead.
117. You write to the Aladdin characters AND THEY WRITE BACK! (At least, in your mind, to give you fan fiction ideas.)
118. You call someone who plays a character by his character name and gives him a Identity Crisis
119. You'd like to see a live action version of Aladdin...
120. If Disney makes that version you want them to have Scott Weinger, Linda Larkin and the rest of the crew doing the voices of the actors.
121. When your sign your e-mails with quotes from Aladdin.
122. When you make sure your two-days old niece watch her first Aladdin episode and you sing "A Whole New World" to her as a lullaby
123. When you spend lot of time analyzing the psychology of the Aladdin characters.
124. When you spend lot of time analyzing the psychology of the Aladdin characters, with the help of a cousin of yours who's a psychology major.
125. You stay awake late in the night trying to find new AFS symptoms.
126. You took a Advanced History class on college just to learn more about the Arab culture.
127. You own 2 different versions of the Arabian Nights.
128. When someone tells you they have never seen Aladdin you consider it as an Aladdin emergency.
129. You spend most of your Internet time searching for new Aladdin sites or visiting the old ones to see if they are updated.
130. When every time you mention the word "Aladdin" your whole family roll their eyes. (so they keep rolling their eyes all day and night!)
131. When you receive phone calls from friends to let you know that they saw an Aladdin item in a store... and you run to buy it!
132. When one of your best friends is on vacations on the other side of your country and calls you just to let you know she found something Aladdin and she got it for you.
133. You taped all the Hercules episodes just waiting for the Aladdin-Hercules crossover.
134. Now you wish an TLM-Aladdin crossover, a Mulan-Aladdin crossover, a Tarzan-Aladdin crossover, a TLK-Aladdin crossover.....
135. You cried at the end of KoT.
136. You've seriously consider an Aladdin theme for your wedding, with wedding clothes like Aladdin and Jasmine's, with peacocks, your very own elephant stampede and even a 40 thieves attack.
137. When someone tells you: "May I ask you something?" Your answer is: "One question, one answer!"
138. Before you open a door you say. "Open Sesame!"
139. When you were at college studying laws, you wrote a paper about the illegal old law that forced princesses to marry with someone they didn't love.
140. When you knew Scott Weinger (Aladdin) was dating Kellie Martin (Sadira) you were like: "Aladdin, how could you? If Jasmine finds out....!"
141. You have old Aladdin commercials taped.
142. You made your own Aladdin screensaver.
143. You actually know who Bakbak, Omar and Kassim are.
144. You have a little frame with a picture of Aladdin and Jasmine on your desk at work.
145. Even your 3 years old niece calls you by your RPG name.
146. You think that Las Vegas is really a branch of Getzistan and you also think that the Aladdin Casino in Las Vegas is owned by Iago himself.
147. You just discovered that you have a distant ancestor with Arab blood and you are SO happy about it.
148. Now that you know you have that ancestor you are trying to research for your family tree hoping that Aladdin and Jasmine could be actually your grand-grand-grand-parents.
149. You call Rasoul to that annoying teacher who is always bugging you.
150. The last time a circus visited your town you tried to step on the tiger's head to try to climb a tree and jump a wall.
151. You want to prove yourself that you can be a very good streetrat.
152. You have consider the idea of steal an apple just to see if Aladdin comes to your rescue.
153. You stayed up until 4:00 am just to tape the special of Aladdin on Ice.
154. You set free a bunch of white birds of your aunt....
155. The word "salaam" is now part of your vocabulary.
156. You found a old building in an old part of your city which has a rooftop that resembles Aladdin's hovel and
157. You collect Aladdin comics in old Disney comic magazines. And translate them into English
158. You watch your favorite parts of the movie over and over and you even watch them in slow motion.
159. When you are bored you recite the whole movie.
160. Whenever you watch your Aladdin video and it's over, when you are rewinding it you stop and watch AWNW again.
161. You haunt eBay looking for Aladdin auctions!
162. You actually dream you are married to Aladdin and you have 3 kids.
163. You got another disease called JFS! aka The Jasmine Feeling Syndrome.
164. You go through auctions looking for Corn Flakes boxes with Aladdin and Jasmine pictures on them-with the cereal contents still inside!
165. When Disney decided not to make another Aladdin sequel, then you take the matter in your own hands and decide to form a team to make your very own sequel!
166. When you not only dream about the other members but your FAMILY dreams about the other members
167. When you are rub oil lamps hoping that Genie will come out, even when the merchant and your family gives you strange looks
168. You see AFS infected tractors driving along the road
169. You make plans to steal it, and use it as your own Magic Carpet
170. You analyze relation between Aladdin and Jasmine
171. When a mailing list about Aladdin exists more then one year
172. You read the list of symptoms over again and get AFS when you read it.
173. When you fall totally in love with another Aladdin fan and she loves you too
174. You know you're AFS infected when you come up with the movie outtakes.
175. You are driving and listen a song that reminds you of Al and Jas and stop the car to write down the lyrics.
176. You have an Aladdin line in your signature.
177. Your e-mail address has something to do with Aladdin, like aladdin@ or jasmine@.
178. You sing along whenever you hear an Aladdin song.
179. You carry a picture of Al and Jas in your wallet.
180. Whenever you turn on the cassette player in your car an Aladdin song starts.
181. Whenever you turn on the cassette player or CD player in your room an Aladdin song starts.
182. You always carry something Aladdin whenever you go.
183. Whenever you are bored you absently start to write or draw something Aladdin in your notebook.
184. You spend most of (often ALL of ) your free time working for Aladdin and/or the AML in one way or another.
185. You wish goodnight to posters of Al and Jas that you have in your room.
186. You spend a whole night awake because you are thinking (or chatting) about Aladdin.
187. You can sing on an Aladdin song while typing a philosophy paper without making any mistake.
188. Aladdin can always take you out of a really bad mood.
189. You join the AML to be with members of your own kind because all of your friends consider you abnormal because they think it's weird that anybody still likes Aladdin.
190. You go to the hall of records to check out the glim hope that Al and Jas might be your ancestors.
191. You go out in an intense 5 years crusade to try to locate the artists behind the voices in Aladdin.
192. You actually find those people. and exchange phone numbers and home addresses with them.
193. When Aladdin becomes more important to your survival than oxygen and water.
194. You can stay awake until 4:00 am talking about nothing but Aladdin.
195. You have a 4 hours Aladdin chat and when you finally end that chat you realize you forgot to bring some Aladdin-related subjects and you think: "Oh well, that'd be tomorrow's topic." And you actually do this on a daily basis.
196. You don't refer to the past by saying
     - That ways back in 1992
     - When I was at college
     - About a year ago Instead you prefer to say
     - When Aladdin was released.
     - Somewhere between RoJ and KoT
     - When the AML started..
197. You put the pictures of Aladdin and Jasmine on you school binder.. Even if you are a teacher.
198. Your nightmares involve bad things happening to Al and Jas.
199. You have every single minute of Al-Jas lives planned in your head.
200. If you spend your whole recess typing new found AFS symptoms instead of taking your lunch. even if you are starving.

This list was made thanks to the following people.

Evi, Cyndi, Wendy, Jill, Michelle, Sedeara, Kerchak, Meg and Marco.