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20 Mar 2015, 5:20 pm

Keep on doing it and see, if anyone exclaims: "I want whatever she´s having!" :-)
Sorry. I had to.


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20 Mar 2015, 7:28 pm

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When people comment on what I'm buying, it really pisses me off. Sometimes I just tell people outright it's none of their business. I've stopped caring if I offend those people, because they are being rude.


I was in line at a grocery store a couple weeks ago (I have to go to different stores for certain items, too, the one where I do most of my shopping doesn't carry the brand of eggrolls I prefer) and the clerk was prattling to the woman ahead of me, about people who spontaneously offer to help out the poor and disenfranchised by offering to pay for their groceries. Now, granted, its certainly a nice thing to do, and if such spontaneous acts of kindness warm their Christian little hearts, I'm all for that, but they were going on and on about how some ungrateful types would not only refuse to accept such charity, but actually get irritated at do-gooders for trying to help them out.

I just stood there biting my tongue. They can't even imagine that to some people, a stranger walking up and offering to pay for their groceries might be humiliating and mortifying. Its just saying "Oh, you pitiful thing, you look such a miserable wretch, let me make myself feel good by rescuing you from your pathetic plight." Maybe we don't need you leaning down from your high horse to pat us on the head.

I mean, there are ways to help out that don't rob people of their dignity and self respect. I know they mean well, but its really catty to insult people who would rather get by with the limited resources they have, than be treated like beggars. If somebody did that to me, I would sink right through the floor and die of embarrassment.


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20 Mar 2015, 8:37 pm

I think I may be gaining a reputation in my area as the 'park nutter'.

Whereas most people go to the park for a purpose, such as exercise or picnics, I go there by myself to space out and stim and wander around doing things which must look totally bizarre to other people - such as minutely examining the interesting patterns of tree bark, often whilst humming or singing to myself.

I was in the park one day and came across a dog so I picked up a stick and started playing fetch with it. I don't know how long I was doing this for but I didn't even realise it had an owner until some guy holding a lead asked me if he might have his dog back.


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20 Mar 2015, 8:47 pm

I have a third eye on my belly button and I like to drink blood because its tasty. I told a girl that on the 1st date. I still haven't heard back from her...



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20 Mar 2015, 8:54 pm

I guess my weird Aspie trait is just talking nonstop and rambling on about nonsense. Being a freshman in highschool, it's pretty unbelievable that my friends can actually keep up with what I'm saying.



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20 Mar 2015, 8:59 pm

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I think I may be gaining a reputation in my area as the 'park nutter'.

Whereas most people go to the park for a purpose, such as exercise or picnics, I go there by myself to space out and stim and wander around doing things which must look totally bizarre to other people - such as minutely examining the interesting patterns of tree bark, often whilst humming or singing to myself.

I was in the park one day and came across a dog so I picked up a stick and started playing fetch with it. I don't know how long I was doing this for but I didn't even realise it had an owner until some guy holding a lead asked me if he might have his dog back.


All perfect examples of mindfulness. You just naturally get what some people can never get even after years of trying. Being in the moment. Very commendable Raleigh. You shouldn't feel embarrassed. You should feel proud of yourself. Good on you :)


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20 Mar 2015, 9:07 pm

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Raleigh wrote:
I think I may be gaining a reputation in my area as the 'park nutter'.

Whereas most people go to the park for a purpose, such as exercise or picnics, I go there by myself to space out and stim and wander around doing things which must look totally bizarre to other people - such as minutely examining the interesting patterns of tree bark, often whilst humming or singing to myself.

I was in the park one day and came across a dog so I picked up a stick and started playing fetch with it. I don't know how long I was doing this for but I didn't even realise it had an owner until some guy holding a lead asked me if he might have his dog back.



All perfect examples of mindfulness. You just naturally get what some people can never get even after years of trying. Being in the moment. Very commendable Raleigh. You shouldn't feel embarrassed. You should feel proud of yourself. Good on you :)

Thanks. I'm just enjoying myself (and the interesting tree bark).


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20 Mar 2015, 10:30 pm

Talking to myself practically almost everywhere, whenever I'm not focusing at something or not doing much at all.
I consider talking to myself my oddest trait.

And the focus trait is one of the best trait I ever have.


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20 Mar 2015, 10:50 pm

I like to spend my time alone and I talk to myself all the time. I don't think it's weird. I think I'm good company :)


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20 Mar 2015, 11:00 pm

hmmmmmm..... let's see..... :chin: oh yes, when I was young, I used to put the heel of my hand against the corner of my mouth, blow air out the corner and make quasi-flatulant noises and even melodies, i could do that all day :mrgreen: and I'd also squeak like a mouse, that was a touretty-type thing I guess, I'd have this urge to squeak that I could not resist, I could go like 5 minutes before I'd succumb. then as I grew older and my voice box would not squeak anymore, I would get these wry-neck-related odd postural deformations, I would feel "uneven" in my musculoskeletalness and I'd have to bend my body in a counter-uneven way to get things to feel more "even." to this day I love oscillating plates, I could do that for minutes in a row at least. I have this involuntary jerk that seems to make my whole body twitch, sometimes it just sneaks up on me, I don't know anything about why that happens, it is like a body-wide shudder but quick. also, I like to make things even in a lateral balance, so if I scratch an itch on one side of my body sometimes I will feel the need to scratch the other side even if it doesn't itch. strange, I know. :alien:



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21 Mar 2015, 12:08 am

I used to go to parks and just amble along the trails looking at nature while joggers went running past me. I never thought of it as weird...I mean, I never thought *I* was the weird one. I thought the joggers were weird.



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21 Mar 2015, 12:23 am

I sometimes have an irresistible urge to clear my throat, it will have that phlegmy feel to it that is highly resistant to relief.



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21 Mar 2015, 1:06 am

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hmmmmmm..... let's see..... :chin: oh yes, when I was young, I used to put the heel of my hand against the corner of my mouth, blow air out the corner and make quasi-flatulant noises and even melodies, i could do that all day :mrgreen: and I'd also squeak like a mouse, that was a touretty-type thing I guess, I'd have this urge to squeak that I could not resist, I could go like 5 minutes before I'd succumb. then as I grew older and my voice box would not squeak anymore, I would get these wry-neck-related odd postural deformations, I would feel "uneven" in my musculoskeletalness and I'd have to bend my body in a counter-uneven way to get things to feel more "even." to this day I love oscillating plates, I could do that for minutes in a row at least. I have this involuntary jerk that seems to make my whole body twitch, sometimes it just sneaks up on me, I don't know anything about why that happens, it is like a body-wide shudder but quick. also, I like to make things even in a lateral balance, so if I scratch an itch on one side of my body sometimes I will feel the need to scratch the other side even if it doesn't itch. strange, I know. :alien:


I get that. I call it "body zap" although I think in my case, it's a side effect from the antidepressant.

My Mum had a similar thing where if she gets one hand wet, she's got to wet the other. If she bumps into something like hits her left hand on something she says she doesn't feel even until she does the same with the other side.


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21 Mar 2015, 1:09 am

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auntblabby wrote:
hmmmmmm..... let's see..... :chin: oh yes, when I was young, I used to put the heel of my hand against the corner of my mouth, blow air out the corner and make quasi-flatulant noises and even melodies, i could do that all day :mrgreen: and I'd also squeak like a mouse, that was a touretty-type thing I guess, I'd have this urge to squeak that I could not resist, I could go like 5 minutes before I'd succumb. then as I grew older and my voice box would not squeak anymore, I would get these wry-neck-related odd postural deformations, I would feel "uneven" in my musculoskeletalness and I'd have to bend my body in a counter-uneven way to get things to feel more "even." to this day I love oscillating plates, I could do that for minutes in a row at least. I have this involuntary jerk that seems to make my whole body twitch, sometimes it just sneaks up on me, I don't know anything about why that happens, it is like a body-wide shudder but quick. also, I like to make things even in a lateral balance, so if I scratch an itch on one side of my body sometimes I will feel the need to scratch the other side even if it doesn't itch. strange, I know. :alien:


I get that. I call it "body zap" although I think in my case, it's a side effect from the antidepressant. My Mum had a similar thing where if she gets one hand wet, she's got to wet the other. If she bumps into something like hits her left hand on something she says she doesn't feel even until she does the same with the other side.

hmmmm.... :scratch: I wonder what they call that phenomenon?



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21 Mar 2015, 1:19 am

^ Symmetry OCD?


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hmmmm.... :scratch: I wonder what they call that phenomenon?



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