Whats your most recent ASD moment?

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25 Jun 2012, 8:08 pm

Was the only one to tell a coworker the truth about what an idiot she is, because I didn't care about the social requirements not to.

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25 Jun 2012, 9:45 pm

Spent a good part of Saturday at an SCA event, getting only about half, on average, of what was said to me in a lot of the conversations I was in and what was said around me in the ones I was near enough that I could've been in. Good thing I think I mostly got the parts that mattered enough so that I could fake it and make appropriate sounding responses.

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25 Jun 2012, 10:34 pm

Well there is so many odd things when suddenly out of no where people come up to me and ask something.

Like the other day just minding my own business and this dude comes out of the blue and asks me "where do you get you're power?" and for once my brain was actually working fast, and i respond well i get it from the eletrical outled.

Apperently what he wanted to know was where i get it, from what company or something lol.

Just makes you feel like a complete ret*d.

But i hate it, people are so damn vague when they ask wierd stuff like that.

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26 Jun 2012, 12:00 pm

loner1984 wrote:

Apperently what he wanted to know was where i get it, from what company or something lol.

That's what I might think of as an excellent time to cover with a smirk and a chuckle, as though I'd been kidding all along. If you can pass as having a good sense of humor, people will forgive a lot, and you feel less ridiculous afterwards.

Would this have helped you? Or would it have been too late or too awkward by the time you figured it out?

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26 Jun 2012, 12:10 pm

I bump into my boss in the breakroom today.

Boss: "Good morning." (Friendly, smiling)
Me: "Morning." (Rinsing out my coffee mug, trying to return the gesture)
Boss: "How's it going?"
Me: "Umm..... I am... OK." (Instead of returning the volley, I pause abruptly, racking my brain for evidences to establish that I am, in fact, OK.)
Boss: .......

(Boss notices that my wallet is on the counter, since my RFID card for getting around the office is in it)
Boss (congenially): That is a huge wallet. I hope you don't sit on that.
Me: Hmm? Oh. No. It goes in my front pocket.
Boss: What is in there?
Me: A bunch of stuff I don't really use. (I open my wallet and begin rifling through it for specific examples.)
Boss: ...
Me: Well, here's a business card that I'm pretty sure I don't need...
Boss: .......

Boss: (pulls out his wallet for comparison) Here's what mine looks like.
Me: *smiling and chuckling nervously*
Boss: *returns the nervous chuckle and leaves*

Another one, when I was visiting in-laws with my wife a couple weeks back, my brother-in-law mentioned something about squirrels destroying their garden. Attempting to continue the conversation, I say, "yeah, we get rabbits gnawing on the vegetables back home." Conversation comes to a dead stop, and I can't for the life of me figure out why.

Damn I hate small talk.

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26 Jun 2012, 6:15 pm

bernerbrau wrote:

I can help but chuckle at this...mainly because I find myself in the same sorts of situations.

Today I've interrupted people in conversation with non-sequitors on more than one occasion. I've walked into walls. Also, my coworkers and I got together for lunch to send off someone who's starting a new job: I was silent almost the whole time, and I left a little early because I was starting to get really anxious from too much social interaction. I stimmed the entire time, too.

EDIT: Just realized I've been listening to the same song on repeat for the last two hours.

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26 Jun 2012, 6:28 pm

My most recent moment is having a nervous breakdown about all the things I still have to do with my student loan and tuition fees. The deadlines are coming up and I'm not nearly there yet. All the letters, e-mails and phone calls are confusing me and really getting my anxiety going.

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26 Jun 2012, 10:18 pm

falonsayswoah wrote:

I feel guilty when I do things like this, even though I can't help it, because she really does mean the best. I also feel absolutely ridiculous for reacting this way when I'm 18-years-old.

I kinda feel the same way sometimes. My aunt once described me as a "40-year-old soul in a 19-year-old body, with the maturity level of a 10-year-old."

This one isn't recent, but my last trip to Disney World reminded me of this incident. I was standing in line for Rock 'N' Roller Coaster, right before we go into the pre-show area. Apparently, I totally forgot the area I was standing in was where the automatic doors opened. So there I was, minding my own business, when BAM! The automatic door just smacks me in the face. Luckily it didn't leave any marks or hurt very bad, but it certainly was embarrassing, especially after the eemployee had just told me to get out of the way. :oops:

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26 Jun 2012, 11:22 pm

MindWithoutWalls wrote:

loner1984 wrote:

Apperently what he wanted to know was where i get it, from what company or something lol.

I first realized it later, I just quickly walked away. I have a real problem with stangers suddenly coming from nowhere and ask something which I'm not prepared for, my brain totally shutdowns. Sometimes I end up lying about stuff just to get away.

I really bad with humor. Suddenly when people start laughing but you haven't said anything funny.
But my brain wouldn be able to just pass it off as a joke because atm I though that was the real answer to that sales man's question.

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27 Jun 2012, 2:11 am

I went to the Tim Hortons drive through, I ordered an Accord Blue King's (cigarettes) instead of a large double double..... Flipped the script, thought I was at the gas station....

Derp.

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27 Jun 2012, 4:05 am

talking without the use of contractions. when i do it people chuckle and it is most odd.

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27 Jun 2012, 9:09 am

loner1984, I just saw that you're still in your 20s. I'm 44 now, and I finally started to learn this trick in my mid 30s, I think. It simply took that long. I know how you feel. No guarantees, of course, but it's possible you may still get the hang of this one yet. Give it a while longer. The process is slow and takes time, and I still don't always manage it. But when you finally are successful once, you begin to figure out how to have a feel for when to do it. Then things slowly start to get better.

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27 Jun 2012, 6:32 pm

I went to a baby shower a couple of months ago for my cousin, and one of her friends asked her "are you packed, she said "no not yet". I must have looked very distraught because my cousin asked if i was okay. i puller her aside and said what are you going to packed with, and is it an invasive surgery? she laughed so hard, and said her friend meant are her clothes packed for the hospital. lol. boy did I feel silly.

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27 Jun 2012, 6:39 pm

lostgirl1986 wrote:

The doorbell just rang and I ran upstairs and let my mum answer the door.

I also do this all of the time. If I am home alone,and the doorbell rings, I will crouch down in the corner so the person can't see me. It's not that I'm scared or anything, I just don't want to answer the door.

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27 Jun 2012, 6:53 pm

Okay, so a couple of days ago, while I was lounging around the trailer I reside in, someone knocked on the door. My father, who was sleeping on the couch at that time, told me to "get him a gun". Needless to say, I did that literally, then went to answer the door. Afterward, I was told that he really meant was "grab a gun" instrad. *facepalm*

Oh, and I did wind up going through a terrible meltdown a couple of days ago. All I'll say about that is it was triggered by my father being a jerk.

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27 Jun 2012, 8:12 pm

MidnightDragoon wrote:

My father, who was sleeping on the couch at that time, told me to "get him a gun". Needless to say, I did that literally, then went to answer the door. Afterward, I was told that he really meant was "grab a gun" instrad.

I'm confused.

Sorry about your father and your meltdown, though...

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