Whats your most recent ASD moment?

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Yeah, when that happens, my initial thought is, "What do you mean you don't remember??"

That sounds fun!

Today I was riding in the car with my boyfriend when I suddenly realized I'd been dominating the conversation for the past five minutes by going on and on with pointless details about the field show I'd participating in for marching band eight years ago... (I also just realized that that was one big, run-on sentence. Oops.) I apologized to him for rambling, but he assured me that he didn't mind and that he likes hearing my voice...

... So I asked him if he ever zones out when I ramble like that.
He said, "No."
I told him to be honest, and asked again if he ever zones out.
He said, "Not usually."

I thanked him for his honesty. (This was not sarcasm. I literally told him, "Thank you.")

Well, I was sitting with my friends, one's a special ed teacher, and one's a speech therapist, and they were talking about a student with Aspergers and how they could tell, and I realized that I had been exhibiting those same "symptoms" just a few minutes earlier.

Recently, I came to the realization that as a kid I had no theory of mind. And now that I do possess TOM, I realize people are constantly judging each other and forming biases and prejudices.

Is it an AS thing to not automatically judge or stereotype people?

I have a nt wife and its the exact oppisit problem insted of saying this is what I want, its would this be nice or what do you think about so she might get the answer I dont like or want. If she said she wanted this or that I will try to make it happen.

Having a meltdown and letting it play out over posts here on WrongPlanet. Maybe I should just stay away from message boards when I'm having emotional issues.

I've done the exact same thing!! Once my mother bought me sunglasses , I got irritated because I could still see the sun around the edges so I had a tantrum about wanting the same sunglasses as my father 's (this was late 70's so he had those glasses with wings of leather attached to the sides ) She did buy me the sunglasses but I could feel she was mad at me as we walked out of the shop and I felt all let down and grumpy , I took the sunglasses off and toyed with them until a temple snapped ....I felt sooo guilty!! I apologized at 29, my mother looked at me like I was some kind of alien and said "huh...yes I think I remember what you're talking about...that was the summer after you turned 2 years old and it was my fault for making you skip your nap "

This reminds me of something that happened a couple months ago: I overheard a couple of coworkers talking about AS (more specifically, about someone's seeming inability to recognize social cues), and I out of nowhere joined into the conversation, without even considering the fact that I may have come across as rude. Oops.

I have asked to my cat when she had her last "being a cat" - moment, but she did not answer, and to me she always looks like a cat, but I do not know if she is conscious about being a cat, but everything she does is being a cat.
But lately I have visited a festival for people with a disability.
There was a group of people of a psychiatric hospital rehearsing a play on stage.
One person of the accompanying stuff said: "The stagelight cannot become darker than that".
I watched the stagelight and saw, that there were still two headspots burning and that there was still stray light from the beamer hanging on a barre giving light onto the stage, so I said very loud: "No, it can be still be much darker than that, because there are still two headlights burning and the beamer is giving stray light onto the stage".
One female patient of the psychiatric hospital started to cry and someone of the accompanying stuff told me, that he said intentionally, that the stagelight could not become darker than that, because this female patient was phobic of the dark.
To me he was just giving wrong information.

I messed up 3 times today not recognizing someone.

My most recent is occurring right now. I am focusing on a special interest of mine, but this site has somewhat turned into a special interest too because I can never stay off of it! So I am focusing on two right now by switching from one to the other occasionally.

I just had one. And it was something I didn't realize was related to AS 'til now. When I have things I know I have to do for a day, I organize them mentally to do them in the best order. My boyfriend asked me yesterday to continue painting a room today as a favor to him. He said he wanted it finished before he came back from work, which wasn't going to be until 5pm today. Now, in my mental list, I put painting as the last thing for me to do. Why? Because I'm very sensitive to the paint fumes and they give me a headache that lasts until I fall asleep.

But shortly after I woke up, my boyfriend texted me from work, asking if I got the painting done. I said I hadn't, as I had just woken up. Out of nowhere, he goes, "Fine. Forget it. I'll do it when I get home." So because I haven't done it first thing in the morning, he thinks I'm never going to do it? So he wouldn't complain later, I went and got the painting started first. But I spent the whole time stewing in anger, then a part of me wondered why I'm so angry. I say I'm angry because he thinks I'm not going to do it... But then I realized, I was angry because he forced me to break from my routine for the day.

... Well, now I'm angry because I have that headache that I knew I was going to get. But I'd never realized before that the reason his random "Have you done such-and-such yet?" questions bother me so much is because he's pushing me to break from the plans I set.

I was in a meeting with my manager and didn't realize for several minutes that I was flapping with my right hand.

My most recent moment was picking up the children from school and seeing my old field placement teacher at the daycare center there and she said hi to me and I shyly said hi back but I was trying to avoid her because I didn't want to talk to her.

Someone who is romantically interested in me asked, "Where do you see us in a few years?" (He was referring to our 'relationship')
I said, "I'll be in Africa", as I have a trip planned to go and take pictures of elephants. He got annoyed

Can I just say it irks me that the "hmph" emoticon and the "neutral" emoticon are the same emoticon.

had that happen with a hotel, while on vacation last week. we stopped in a city a friend of my mum's recommended while we were on our way home. after paying for the room, we parked and went up to check it out. it smelled so bad and i walked right back out and drove us to a different one. we paid for a room at that one, went back to the previous (smelling) hotel and took the charge off. but my mum was really mad at me. only later on in the night for her to admit that i was right.


other stuff:

my mum calls me rain-woman now. mostly because i get upset slightly, if i miss jeopardy.
i get annoyed when we go to eat somewhere we always go to and i get asked, "what are you getting?" i get the same thing every time because i like it so much and they know this.

another thing from vacation last week... we use Tom Tom to travel with and Mum turned my music off to hear Dennis Hopper say a pre programmed useless line. i kept telling her to just follow the arrow, the voice was irrelevant. she got mad at me, so i grabbed the gps, turned up the volume for the voice and threw it back at her. and then it was annoyingly loud for me. but she didn't care.