Whats your most recent ASD moment?

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It took me two years to realize that the vice-president where I work was joking when he commented on a misspelling in an email I sent. I thought he was really unhappy with it so I corrected the typo and resent it to everybody, along with a heartfelt apology.

This didn't happen today but reading this thread made me think about it. One time at my last job there was a person who was quitting so he had brought cake for everybody and when he came in my office and asked if I wanted some cake I answered "What kind is it?" without thinking it was an inappropriate answer. Luckily he was a nice guy and he just started laughing and said in a nice way that I shouldn't answer that kind of question like that

In my mind I was just thinking that I couldn't just say yes before I knew what kind of cake it was, because what if I didn't like it?

I had a few moments. First I can remember is coordination issues when playing a video game - My character fell off the cliff twice. The other day I was watching a comedy - when a character said "the window is open," I thought literally of an open window. After a bit I realized it was a metaphor. Today, due to my coordination issues, I dropped a frozen waffle on my toe.

Came home from work, entered through the doorway, and promptly walloped my left arm into the door while reaching to close said door behind me.

My black & dying index fingernail says it all when it comes to door closing. A few weeks ago it was blue-green though..
Today I nearly chewed a WP member out for not using proper capitalization in his post. I do not like to correct anyone's english, besides he might not be a native speaker. But seeing a lot of i's was really bugging me.

Sincerely,
Matthew

Not sure if I have AS or not, but something happened literally less than five minutes ago that I feel the need to post about.

I'm staying at my grandparents' house this week to work on a paper due Thursday because my laptop is broken, and she came into the office and started talking to me about an oral exam I have tomorrow in my Japanese class. This is something I'm trying to not think about because I can't study much for it (the main thing about this exam is going with the flow of conversation) and I started getting really overwhelmed. I told her that I couldn't talk, and she just kept talking. She asked why I couldn't talk, and I said, "I just can't talk." I was speaking in a stressed tone because I was getting more overwhelmed the more she pushed. She wasn't really doing anything wrong, but I couldn't really explain that because I was starting to freak out. I tried to explain that I wasn't capable of talking about it any further but I know she doesn't really understand me when I get like this. She eventually left me alone, which was all I needed to compose myself.

Oh, I just thought of another thing that happened recently. My grandma and I were going to a pizza parlor one evening for my cousin's fundraiser. I had put on a T-shirt with my favorite band's logo on it that morning. My grandma told me she wanted me to change my shirt and dress more feminine for this. I asked her why and the only answer she had was that she likes to see me dressed up. I didn't see a good reason for me to change my shirt and dress up since we were just going to a pizza parlor with mostly family there, and I hadn't planned on changing my shirt, so I told her I didn't want to. I was actually really uncomfortable just thinking about changing my shirt because that was the shirt I picked out for the day and I had not planned on changing it. She was insistent and I just couldn't understand why. I started getting really upset because I didn't understand her reasoning behind wanting me to change my shirt. Also, the prospect of change in my plans, even in a small way, was unsettling. This confusion mixed with an already stressful week sent me into a meltdown. I started pulling on my hair and I stomped really hard on the floor because I felt like I needed to pound on something. I made it into a different room and then... Well I don't fully remember what happened between that and putting on my backpack to leave for class (I had a class before the fundraiser). I stopped talking for a little while after that which I usually don't do. It was an exhausting afternoon.

I feel guilty when I do things like this, even though I can't help it, because she really does mean the best. I also feel absolutely ridiculous for reacting this way when I'm 18-years-old.

I'm always being told I'm "hard on things", and my wedding ring and about everything else I own is always battered and scratched up - and I don't remember any of it happening.

I just found out that my username has a double meaning... *fail*

My boyfriend sent me a message, I just read it and realized that I pissed him off big-time while we were at work yesterday.
What happened was that he joked about bringing home a kitten for me (I already have a cat.) And I just said no that I wouldn't take it and that the cat I had now wouldn't like it, plus my apartment's too small for a young, rambunctious kitty. They need room to run. I think a kitten would go stir-crazy in my apartment.

I explained all of this, but apparently I went overboard. He said that I "went off" on him and embarrassed him.

I had no idea until I read his message that he was angry with me. Stuff like this is very frustrating.