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20 Aug 2011, 1:20 am

It's happened to me while shopping with a shopping cart. Everytime I try to get out of the way the person is, like, right there, man. Talk about your blush! Somehow it always gets resolved before tears are shed.



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20 Aug 2011, 1:28 am

I think it happens to everyone, but it might happen more often to Aspies, since we might be giving the wrong eye/head signals. I usually move over to the right two steps. :D


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20 Aug 2011, 2:41 pm

Ah. Got it.



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20 Aug 2011, 6:35 pm

I think this happens to everyone occasionally, but it wouldn't surprise me if this happened a lot more to aspies than to other people. It certainly happens often to me. I think it has to do with neither party being able to read into the other person's body language well enough to predict their movements/intentions or make eye contact to coordinate how they will pass each other.