Whats your most recent ASD moment?

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My girlfriend is in England, visiting a friend. Her e-mails to me: "Ooh! Let me tell you all about the wonderful scenery and neat adventures I'm having! My e-mails to her: "Ooh! Let me tell you all about how I'm organizing the house and the nifty chart I made to get it all done!" No, it's not because I'm so domestic. It's because I like organizing things and making charts. It's just like my exercise plan - though that's actually become more flexible and has come to pretty much be maintained in my head at this point. Oh, and to clarify with further detail for better accuracy...

I suppose I do an ASD every weekday - playing the "number plate recognition" game. There are several cars I see every day on my walk from the station to the office, as I've been able to memorise their registration numbers.

I add the numbers up and divide by 3, 7 or 11.

Had a conversation with my pet dog today

Happened this evening at a restaurant; My mom's hands were full so she handed me her purse and asked, "Are my keys in there?" I looked, located them, put them back, handed her her purse and said, "Yeah," thinking she just wanted to know if they were in there. I started walking off and she started laughing, "I meant can you get them out for me?" I felt stupid because I usually pick up on these sorts of things. Although it was a bit of an overwhelming night; I had to wear my earplugs in the restaurant we were in because of the noise.

"Do you have your phone?'
'Yeah'
"can I see it?'
:shows them the phone:
"I mean, can I see it for a minute?"
'oh, yeah, sure'

I'm getting a little better

My husband asks me to heat him a couple burritos. Then he correct himself and said three. I would have heated him two if he didn't say three and I was thinking of two when he said couple.

I don't know what is my most recent one, so I'll just list one that happened recently.

My Biology teacher apologizes to me every time he raises his voice because he got the idea that I'm sensitive to loud noises. Once, he was barely shouting, but he saw me with my hands over my ears and apologized... even though it wasn't his voice that time, but the noise of the chairs scraping against the floor.

The first time he noticed my sensitivity with loud noises was the one time I asked him a question after school and the fire alarm suddenly went off right above our heads... I don't know, I figured that most people would be as surprised and frightened as I was. All my teacher did was looking at the alarm in surprise while I screamed, jumped, took some steps back, and clapped my hands over my ears until the shock wore off.

I caught myself repeating my own words back to myself (Palilalia) the other day.

Wow- I didn't realize this could be an ASD thing but it does make sense. I do this a lot!

My brother said something sarcastic to my mom earlier today. I missed the sarcasm and corrected him.

My brother used to tease me about this. I still catch myself whispering something I said back to myself.

I think my most ASD moment today was this morning when we where having our druid grove meeting. One our members is very celtic and she was telling us a story about a schottish hero and how he was hidding in the hills. I asked, enrapted in the story "How did he get in the hill!?"

Did this tonight with ice cubes she said a couple and thats what she receved then she asked for a couple more and thats what she receved then she asked our son to get her a couple ice cubes he took her five go figure.

Last edited by johnny77 on 20 May 2012, 3:41 am, edited 1 time in total.

Yep, I would do the same exact thing, because in my mind, "a couple" means "two."

I do a variation of this - listening to several songs over and over in the same order, because they "fit" that way.

I was having a relatively good day today. My child was outside, my gf was driving her mother to a relative's house for the day....the house has been silent, and I have gotten to do whatever I wanted. I was even engrossed in drawing a "dream home" sketch in my notebook...I guess I got completely lost in it for about an hour or so when I got up to finally use the restroom when I noticed my bedroom door open. Apparently the dog pushed it open (it wasn't latched all the way-just lodged with my bookbag on the handle). The dog was IN MY BED!! ! She has fleas that we have been desperately trying to get rid of, and while they have gotten a little better they are not completely gone yet. I've been trying to keep her out of my bed (she loves my bed for some reason even though she isn't my dog). I washed my sheets yesterday because she had gotten in it previously. Well, I caught her in it today! This made me freak out...toss her out of the bed...spray it with flea repellent immediately, and I went immediately into a meltdown.

I jumped in a hot shower in order to try to calm myself...it helped only a little. I then, frantically cleaned my bathroom floors afterwards (why? I don't know) with Lysol disinfectant wipes...then, covered myself with a hooded sweater. I'm stimming uncontrollably now.

I'm just really glad I'm still by myself right now.