Whats your most recent ASD moment?

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When the real estate agent came to the house yesterday I hid in the backyard pretending I was reading.

Today I made a few. I seem to have got into a weird habit of keeping saying ''excuse me'' to my mum, meaning she's always in my way. I only say it calmly and quietly, and it's turned into a little habit that's not that annoying and not noticeable to other people, but today my mum pointed it out by saying, ''stop murmuring things like 'excuse me' to me all the time!'' And I was like, ''oop's.''

God I do hate myself sometimes.

Hmm, that makes me wonder if people who EXCESSIVELY apologize for everything are on the Spectrum. Most of them seem quirky in other ways so I am guessing that would be "yes" for a couple of them.
I do not think it was you Senath, but the person who did it capitalized every first word in his speech, but no "I"s. Though that just might be their own autistic moment. Of course, some people online seem afraid of using caps not wanting to sound like they are shouting..
Oh well, I was raised in a family that was strict about grammar so maybe this is natural for me..
The finger is just that I remain as clumsy as ever!

Sincerely,
Matthew

Smiling at the mean comment someone wrote about my husband.


I know most people would not smile and be upset about the comment but me it just made me realize how much I love him and appreciate him so I smiled.


I used to apologize a lot but now I don't anymore.

WOW! Thanks for all your replies! Its funny how eerily similar some of our ASD moments are. I've already had another ASD moment, well its more of a 'momentary lapse of social judgement' moment . To celebrate the Queen's jubilee we had our relatives over and I used a popper and streamers came out and landed on my uncle's head (who has no hair) and I said 'you finally have hair!'. Once again, no one laughed

That's hilarious though! Too bad not everyone has the same sense of humor.


I'm one to over-apologize or over-thank, because I know it's rude when you don't do it so I want to make sure I cover my bases. However, sometimes I really overdo it and my fiance has to take me aside and tell me that all of the thanking/apologizing is getting annoying and uncomfortable for others. Good thing we spend a lot of time together.

Bumped my elbow on the door coming home again today.

Ick! I'mhaving one right now. They give tours where I work and they usually stand outside my door and the guide talks for a long time because there's a bunch of stuff outside the window that's supposed to be interesting, but the pilgrims this time--this batch are SMELLY!! !!

I was lost in my thoughts on the bus this morning when a license plate caught my eye. I then got so caught up in thinking about how license plate numbers are assigned that I totally forgot what I was thinking about a few moments before.

I find this thread impossible to participate in because by the time I'm halfway through writing my post, I've done something more recent and I have to start over.

At a kitchen remodeling store, I found myself very uninterested while walking around the showroom and picking a new kitchen scheme. Why?... Because there weren't a lot of interesting textures to feel. I touched every counter, every sink faucet, every cabinet detail... but there was almost no considerable difference between one thing and another (almost everything was perfectly smooth.) Yeah, some different color schemes are good, but they all feel the same... I ended up unable to pick favorites because without any significant difference in feel, I didn't know what to pick.

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Two more from this evening...

Along my walk home from the bus stop, I cross an intersection that has a traffic signal. I must have been on autopilot, because when I got to the other side of the street, I walked about halfway down the block and realized that I had no recollection of crossing the street. I could have crossed when the signal was red for all I know.

Oh, and I just carried out a fairly one-sided conversation about strawberry pests while looking down and playing with a rubber band the whole time.

I ordered a couple burritos for pickup from a restaurant online today. In the "special instructions" box I wrote, "No cheese, please! No sour cream, please! Thank you!" I know it was all computerized, and they probably get jerk-customers that are very rude, but I was still worried that if I didn't show any politeness via "please" and "thank you", they might think I was being mean. x_x At the least, I know they'll think it was "cute" of me...



What's wrong with that? As a person with many dietary restrictions, I never accept a piece of cake without first asking what's in it. It should never be considered rude to ask what's in the food you're eating. I'd think that, if anything, it should be rude not to offer an ingredient list...

Haha, last May I was riding my bike to work (I've been commuting for years via bike) and I saw green at the light so I continued riding downhill (going so fast that I couldn't even pedal anymore, I'm thinking between 25 and 35 mph?) until I was met by a white car turning left onto the street I was going down. I flipped over the car ("like a rag-doll" said witnesses) and bounced on the pavement, finally landing on my head and back and causing major bruises and some scrapes and cracking my helmet in half.

I realized halfway through the accident that it was a green arrow to turn right, not a green light to go straight.

Maybe needless to say, but I totaled the bike. MRI and CT scans came back fine though.

I realized that I was flapping my hands earlier, I thought that was the one stim I didn't partake in.

Pacing around my apartment.

Whoa! I'm glad you were okay in the end. That sounds awful! Good thing you had your helmet...

I woke up around 6am to use the bathroom. While trying to fall back asleep, I got distracted by a dark little dot on the wall that I could only observe if I didn't look at it straight-on. I then imagined if someone else had noticed that, and I started mentally explaining the mechanisms of the rod and cone cells in the different parts of the retina and how using side vision to better view details of the moon at night has been a proven technique for centuries... Needless to say, all hope of getting back to sleep was lost.