daysleeper wrote:
or is this just me?
a friend recently told me that i ought to work on not projecting myself like an airhead. i know it's what people have assumed of me all my life and i'm not sure if i can really change it, but now i'm wondering if it's just me...
do you forget what words you're choosing while speaking to new people, or forget what you are talking about mid-sentence? not to say i'm great with words, but i am far more articulate in text, as in while typing, then while speaking in a real-life conversation, and i am easily distracted by other things going on where the conversation is taking place or other random thoughts that pop into my head, and often times i accidently vocalise them.
do you easily get lost in your own neighborhood? do you not know your own phone number?
in high school someone made me a character in their comic strip and i was deemed "easily amused girl". all my character did was watch shiny things spinning around.
it's stuff like that i suppose that does it for me, but i don't appreciate being taken for a ditz. does this happen to any of you ladies, or is this totally unrelated to my potential AS?
it also seems other girls just think im mean cos i don't remember their faces and fail to say hello to them when i see them, or rather when they see me, so maybe the ditz thing is just the result of that...
I happens to me all the time! I have been told to my face that I am as dumb as a box of rocks (not sure how dumb that is?). That I could never make it through college ( I maintained a 3.97 GPA, and earned two degrees). The people who say those kind of things are more aquantances than freinds though. The people who know me well will tell you that I am no a ditz. I think what it is is that because of my ASD I have a very short attention span, am a litteral thinker, and have poor short term memory. I cannot remember who most of my customers are, but show me a motor and I can tell you who brought it in, what was wronge with it, and how much the bill was. I tend to relate more to objects than people, go figure? I have been working on the whole saying hello when I notice someone I know passing by. Honestly I don't mean to be rude, I am just so focused on what I am doing, or where I am going that I often do not notice whats going on around me. My Sister say's that I am getting better at not projecting myself as a total air head, so their is hope. Keep working at it,