The autism social rule book.

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If your future depends on social skills (And most careers do), I wouldn't neglect building them for the sake of convenience.

One I learned - when someone uses words like:
"Honestly, I don't know." or
"The truth is, I didn't take it."
They are almost always lying.

Yipes, I gotta stop using those words then unless I don't care if they would think I am lying.

I don't think that most people with Asperger's feel they need to stress these sorts of words. Like when Sammy Davis Jr. would follow up a compliment with "and I mean that!" Like he needed to give a special emphasis when he was telling the truth. Aspies take sincerity for granted but it is sometimes the exception to business as usual.

Don't take sincerity for granted

Don't slip over on ice in the street. I know it can't always be helped, but each time I slip I get everyone staring and pointing and laughing as though it is unexpected.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CT0a-Hgumo[/youtube]

Ouch, that was a nasty fall. I bet NTs would be laughing their heads off at that. And NTs don't lack empathy.....?

TBH, I laughed at it. I can't control what I laugh at but apparently people do have control over what they laugh at because people have gotten mad at me for laughing as if I could control it Even when I try and hide it, people still know, same as when I am trying not to laugh and people still act like I am doing it intentionally.

People laugh at me intentionally when I slip, just to humiliate me more than anything else. Then when I get up again they stare and laugh even more. That's not empathy. I mean, how would they feel if one of them slipped over and hurt themselves and got laughed at for it? I bet they wouldn't think it's funny. But when they're laughing at me, they don't stop and think, ''oh, I wonder how she's feeling....'' or if a stupid girl slipping over on a bit of ice is that hiliarious to them, why don't they just laugh quietly? But no, instead they laugh loud for me to hear.

And then Aspies are told to never laugh at someone who is in a situation what you wouldn't like to be in, but NTs do it all the time. That's what I really cannot work out. NTs are allowed to be cruel, but Aspies have got to keep their mouths shut all the time. Searching for fairness......fail to find any existing fairness in that sentence........?

But how do you know they are laughing intentionally? I thought intentional laughter be fake laughing and real laughing would be something you cannot control when you do it.


I did read that uncontrollable laughter is an autism thing. So I then realized people really do choose to laugh. I also think people can laugh and not be able to help it. Have you ever laughed so hard you wet yourself? Were you able to stop laughing when you were laughing about something that was funny you had a hard time speaking? I think this happens to everybody but maybe people on the spectrum just laugh more often and can't help it while it happens to other people sometimes.

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No, I don't believe in ''this is an Aspie thing and that is an NT thing'', unless they are listed on the diagnostic criteria for Autism. Sometimes NTs or Aspies laugh intentionally, other times NTs or Aspies laugh uncontrollably. But me slipping over is not something NTs would laugh uncontrollably at, unless you're in a crowd of mates and one of you slips and the person that slips is laughing and so you all laugh uncontrollably. But a stranger slipping over on ice and people over the road pointing and laughing loud without seeing if the person slipped is hurt or not isn't out-of-control laughing, it is just pure nastyness.

Even if I am not laughing, people can still say I am. I wonder if this could mean I have inappropriate facial expressions or people are misreading me. It goes back to my childhood when kids say I was laughing at someone when I wasn't even laughing at all. I wonder if it's possible they may have misread me and that is very common is aspies. People may say we are smiling or laughing when we are not. Is it possible we could be doing these things and not realize it and then we think we are getting false accusations? Maybe this is what doctors mean when they say we have inappropriate facial expressions.

Sometimes it feels like The Sixth sense where Bruce Willis realized in the movie he was dead so everything made sense all of a sudden like why his wife always ignored him. With me, I am looking back at some of the things how I was treated and speculating what may have happened regarding AS. Back then I had no idea and I just thought kids were being stupid or lying about me.

Thanks..for...sharing...

Slapstick humor. When is it really funny? Besides Curly? Although, I have to admit that I laugh at that stupid show: "Wipeout".