Feeling guilty about socially inappropriate interactions?

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Omg I can't believe somebody else does stuff like this. I used to have a food thing where I was eating the same thing from the same place once a day for a good 5 months. I would have a bad situation happen at one and then I would avoid it temporarily. By the end of my experience with this food, I was rotating between 6 locations. I could never imagine having to learn the layouts of 10+ stores, though!

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Most of my work is in retail and I assure you, we don't remember you out of the hundreds of customers we get each day.

The people we remember are the ones who make a big deal about not being able to return or exchange already-used products, or who lose their s**t because one product scanned up at a different price than what was on the sticker.

Also, most of the talking we do with customers is part of our training. We're not saying hi or have a nice day to you because we care, we're doing it because it's part of a script that we have to follow. If you slip up in replying to that, we don't notice, because a lot of NT people do as well.

Honestly, interactions with staff in grocery stores and shopping malls aren't really social interactions. I'm pretty sure a lot of the staff working in those places would love it if we didn't have to pretend to care about our customers! Please don't stress about something like that.

I guess since most of these responses seem to think that I felt guilty for thinking I hurt their feelings or something, I should probably clarify. I felt guilty about the fact that I'm socially inept, not really about them in particular.

Jesus I am 40 I don't which is more scary my autism or middle age.

Well, at least you are much younger than 40 emotionally.

its ok to feel guilty or embarrassed, its your brains way of telling you that you made a mistake and you may blush to let people know your guilty for making that mistake.

unfortenutely i dont realise when a social interaction has gone bad, people would have to tell me, and i dont necessarly feel embarassed i think social rules are stupid so i just get frustrated or confused.

i have a tendency to put people on pedestals when conversing, a bad one may leave me in a near suicidal mood afterwards.

Yes, I do some things that are different. No, it does not make me feel guilty. I am self confident and do not care what others think of me.