Saying the wrong thing and not knowing it

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Oh yes , sometimes in School Teachers will be confrontational when I do something wrong , and in this pressure I will end up sayng something in a mumble and not knowing what's going on , I will be confused and dazed , they sometimes get mad and say '' What? You did that? '' and then I'd say , '' Wait uh... No no I didn't say that! '' .

Fair to say , it's annoying.

Happens to me a lot. Well on the internet. In person I rarely speak to anyone and when I do I stick to formal polite. Please, thank you, hold doors open for people and give my seat to the little old lady on the bus.

Edit.........Must have bumped the Subject Button and sent this here by mistake, sorry.

den

I face this problem daily with my wife. My wife as a NT and often doing this. I am very blunt, and while she understands this, she is still constantly taking what I say and taking the "hidden meaning " that is normal for a NT to see. That is directly the opposite of me. I tend to take things at face value. In the long run, it makes for some HIGHLY interesting situations, but they all work out in the end.

I don't know what to do about it. It is like being color blind, and the red and green lights at the stoplight keep changing positions. Or like being blind and trying to walk through an unfamiliar space, you keep bumping into things you can't see.

The other problem is what others here call "rants." I can't seem to control that even when I realize I am doing it. I remember once I sat someone down in my home in front of a blackboard and gave a lecture on quantum physics. I would occasionally stop and give a pop quiz to make sure he was listening and understanding. It took 3 hours, and all the time I enjoyed myself hugely, but at the same time a voice in the back of my mind told me I should stop, I just couldn't. The guy was an home heating specialist with no interest in physics. We never saw him again. Just one of many such examples.