Whats your most recent ASD moment?

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I had a 3 day eeg over the weekend. After they put the devoce on on friday the tech showed me how to change the batteries. At the end of the battery changing demonstration she said, "And then you can throw the old ones in the trash" and then I blurted out (loudly), "Can't I recycle them instead? Really not supposed to put them in the garbage!" The tech gave me a funny look and said "look, they're yours is the point. You can do whatever you want with them...."

Not sure if this is an Aspie moment, but it was an embarrassing moment. When I was in the council offices I went to the front desk to claim an appointment, and the receptionist checked me in then told me to collect a ticket with my appointment number on from a little machine thing, and the last time I went in there the little ticket machine was on the front desk so I searched around the front desk for the ticket machine and the receptionist said, ''it's there, in the middle of the room'', and so I was looking in every empty space but couldn't see it, so I went, ''where? What middle of the room??'' and the receptionist said, ''right there, near this lady'', and I was still peering around for it, until a man pointed to it and I just about caught sight of it. It was on a post thing. I felt so embarrassed after that, because there was a lot of people sitting there so I looked even more stupid.

It was a Social Phobia moment really, because I guarantee that if there was nobody sitting there looking in my direction, I would have found it straight away.

Joe90, I wouldn't have found it anyway, even with nobody there, so don't feel bad. I've done that sort of thing often enough. It's one of the reasons why my mother used to call me a "Helpless Hannah" when I was a kid.

Relatedly, one of my most recent moments: On the weekend, when we were in a hurry to get going, and I needed to get into the car, I found there was a receipt on the passenger seat. It was from a purchase my girlfriend had made. I couldn't sit down until she moved it, because I didn't know what to do with it. So, I just stood there. There it was, this foreign object, right where I needed to be. So, I couldn't get into the car. But she's used to this. She just moved it for me. Then I could sit. I realized after the fact that I could've picked it up and then handed it to her, but I couldn't do that at the time. I have no way of explaining this sort of thing to an NT.

Hey, you might know the answer to this, then: Were white socks and black shoes with black pants and white shirts commonly worn by young guys in the 1950s? It makes me think of that time, so I wonder if I'm remembering something I saw in old footage or photos somewhere.

Unlike when I see a field of a certain shade of green next to a field of a certain shade of blue on a computer screen, which makes me think of peanut butter, for some strange reason. I can almost smell it just thinking about it! (But it's not the shades we see here, on Wrong Planet. Besides, they have white in between.)

I went with a friend to the mental health facility to support him in what he had to do there. I was going to talk to them about getting tested for ASD but I chickened out. I just didn't want to deal with it even though I sort of need to figure it out. It would be so much easier to do if it didn't require me dealing with people I don't know.

This afternoon, near the end of the carton, I tested the half & half to see if it was still good. It was sweeter than I'd expected. I checked the ingredients. That's when I realized I'd done something terribly wrong: I'd bought the fat free half & half! I do this kind of thing all the time, it seems. I don't notice something's wrong about a purchase until sometimes well after I've made it.

Some friends and I had our weekly D&D night and when they went for a smoke break, I went outside as well. Out of the blue, one of the guys went up behind me, tackling me and taking my flak vest and running around the yard, tormenting me. I'm sitting there, curled up in a ball violently shaking before anyone noticed I was about to flip out. My fellow aspie friend got it back for me and waited for me to calm back down before we resumed playing. Next week, I will have to explain why it's not funny to mess around with me in that particular manner (I don't think he meant to cause me to nearly meltdown).

Jumping up and down with excitement, and embarrassing my teenager, at the bookstore because I got a new book about viruses.

Today, I was closing the computer system for the day and didn't follow the regular procedure. Big mistake! An anxiety attack soon followed and I couldn't catch my breath. Luckily, the people I work with know about my AS and didn't say anything. It's still very disconcerting, however.

Today I had yet another "moment." I was on my way to work when I saw this man wearing black jeans and a blue jean shirt. Honestly, who even has blue jean tops anymore?! Blue jeans and black denim just don't work together. At least it's not as bad as the whole white pants visual assault.

Earlier today I was in the car with someone and he said something and used sarcasm which I completely missed. He had to tell me what he said wasn't true and that he had been sarcastic.

I soothed myself by going off by myself and comparing tech specs for various tanks created during WWI and WWII.

bumped into somebody from m gender and womens studies class from term 2 last year and the conversation was her asking me questions and me not asking anything back. so stupid. it's like basic conversation. i need to ask questions to keep it going and have it not be just about me. why can't i remember to do that one simple thing?

Went to the store to buy beer and ice. My BIL wanted a specific beer, they didn't have it at the first store, so I bought my beer and went to another store for the other beer and the ice. Got to the other store, they didn't have the beer either, so I paid for the ice and left. Got about a couple of miles from the store and then realized that the only thing I paid for, the ice, I left behind...so had to turn around and go back for it.

I would have not gone store to store looking for it because I hate driving around and wasting gas looking for a certain thing. I would have gone home and said "Sorry they didn't have the kind you want so I couldn't get any."

I have left items behind too a few times.

In the midst of a serious autism moment now. I may have said less than 20 words today while stuck in close quarters with 4 other people. I've mostly been reading WP quietly while the world happens around me.