How do you get rid of people?

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No need to worry about me... I've been doing over the top things for decades now and am still alive and well with a constant smile on my face that just drives everybody crazy. My "drive em away" list WAS partially intended as a bit of tongue in cheek humor, but also partially as a list of things I do to drive people away either intentionally or without really trying, all the while tempered by a lot of common sense and realtime gauging of the response of others. I have always been one to try to get other people to think "outside the box" and if my reactions can cause them to stop to think for a moment, then it is a step in that direction. Actually I would love to be able to not drive people away (and DO make big efforts to try to be more outgoing when I can), but with AS that isolation seems to go with the territory naturally.

My latest exploit: I have a high powered WiFi box (range about 1000 feet or so). People walk around making snide remarks and lies about me outside my window, so I create empty WiFi networks having names that tell the truth and express my opinion. People go looking for their favorite network on their cellphones or computers and see my opinion of them staring them in the face. I wish I knew how many people (if any) see them.

(Added later). Let me tell you a true story. I used to work with the space program on a small island overseas (I was chief engineer of two large space track radars). During my time there, a petite young guy named Sam hired on to work at another location on the same island. He was quite effeminate and just had to be gay. Everybody made fun of him at first and nicknamed him "Sweet Sam". At times when a few guys accused him of being gay, he became intensely irate and ready to fight (no fighting on that island… it was reason for automatic termination). It kind of reminds me of the scene in the true Leonardo DiCaprio movie "This Boy's Life" (link below) in which Arthur Gayle (Jonah Blechman, openly gay) became ready to fight (and did) when Toby called him a big bad homo. Anyhow, eventually Sam came to be accepted as he was and in acknowledgment of his nickname he ran the candy booth at the next island fair and named that booth "Sam's Sweet Shop".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108330/

You get a lot more respect from people by agreeing with them than in opposing them. Cooperation is always better than competition. Submission spreads more good will than antagonism. Love is better than hate. I don't know if this is an Aspie view but it is certainly my view… when I am not frustrated. I also realize that some of my shoveling of my opinions down other people's throats in response to their lies is counter to this view, but I try to keep positive thoughts when I can. Whether it is Aspies or gays, if you react to other people's taunts by withdrawing and becoming angry over it, then the bullies have succeeded in getting under your skin. However, if you show them that they have not succeeded in getting under your skin and agree with them openly instead, then it defuses their efforts to belittle you and renders them harmless and insignificant. This is why in response to their taunts, I simply agree and put up those network names acknowledging that I am gay without advertising who I am. All day yesterday I had one up named "Homo Hor*y Happy And Available" and around midnight one named "Wanna Go Again??", half sarcastically to defuse the frequent comments that so and so is satisfied. Today it is nicely quiet.

Other people around me seem to hide in their apartments in embarrassment and shame when they are sexually satisfied and at their weakest. I look forward to those days like today and instead go out and bask in the world and it's people with a big smile on my face, trying to spread as much of my good mood, good will and cheer as possible. It makes other people happy, it makes me happy and I soak it all up like a sponge, making myself even happier. On such days I go driving around looking for people to be nice to and really do try to be outgoing and to spread my good mood. Often I will drive around with the windows rolled down and the Mark Knopfler song "What It Is" playing loudly, which always puts me on cloud nine. Last week, I returned to my apartment complex in such a mood with that song playing for all to hear right behind a young woman who works in the apartment office who in the past has belittled me. She got a really nice smile on her face too as she watched me driving in with that big smile on my face and I think that it helped to change her previous ill will towards me. On New Years Eve afternoon, I took one of my campus walks and as I neared the parking deck and end of the walk, I came across an old woman in her late 80s sitting in a wheelchair gazing down into a steep ravine as if she were contemplating the plunge. I stopped to talk to her for about 30 seconds (I would have talked longer if I had known she was not waiting for someone) about the history of the creek at the bottom of the ravine and she perked up with a huge smile on her face too. As insignificant as it may seem, that made my day. Sometimes the best solution when you want to get rid of someone is to force yourself to interact with them instead, no matter how slightly, as the NTs do. This is what I try to do if a person does not seem to be too much of a hardcore cynic.