You get really, really annoyed with anyone who dares to phone you when you're trying to watch it. They should know better!
You got every single in-joke in Jose Chung's From Outer Space.
You didn't get every single in-joke in Jose Chung's From Outer Space - so you watched it over and over until you did.
You think it's really cool when you see a book about UFOs by a man called Frank Scully.
You want a doll that says "I want to play!" or "Let's have fun!"
You were mortified when the Scullies were introduced to Neighbours because you hold that name sacred.
You think that this season's must-have fashion item is a trenchcoat.
You seriously considered having your hair cut like Scully's.
You seriously considered having your hair cut like Scully's - and you're a man.
Your side of a conversation usually consists entirely of quotes from the series.
You find yourself comparing everyday objects to items from The X Files, e.g. "This lemon sauce looks just like the goo on the fireman's body in the movie."
When you grow up, you want to be an FBI agent.
You get infuriated when the writers make tiny continuity errors.
You get a funny feeling at 10:13 and 11:21.
Your first reaction to anything slightly out of the ordinary is to say "Oh my god!"
You walked round with a big goofy grin on your face for days after watching Hollywood AD.
You can't hear the theme tune to Shaft without insisting "I did NOT!"
Your method of rejecting unwanted romantic advances is to say "Baby me and you'll be peeing through a catheter."
You feel like you know Mulder and Scully better than you know your own family.
You gave up smoking because you associate it with evil.
You have pets called Fox and Dana.
You feed your cat (whose name is Dana) on Felix dry food, which is shaped into the letters F, E, L, I and X, and you arrange them to spell out X FILE.
You find yourself reading webpages entitled "You Know You're An X Phile When…"
You find yourself writing webpages entitled "You Know You're An X Phile When…"
You have suspicions that some of your friends are not of this earth.
Everyone you know reminds you of an X Files character.
You're buying an X reg car and make a list of X Files related letters and numbers to try to get on the number plate.
You're buying a new car and you make a list of X Files related letters and numbers for the number plate - and it isn't even an X reg.
You find yourself nodding as you read this.
You can name an episode after watching five seconds from any point in that episode.
When you're watching an episode, you recognise Mulder and Scully's outfits from previous episodes.
You listen to the Truth and the Light CD and can place each piece of music to a particular scene of a particular episode.
You've been to an X Files convention.
You tell people "not to be such a Scully" if they're sceptical in the face of somebody else's excitement, and "not to be such a Mulder" if they make a huge deductive leap to an incredible explanation.