Things you didn't comprehend as a child because of autism?

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I read, 'watch this space' written in a book. I was Aspie enough to stare at the page for a while and NT enough to realise that it must be just an expression because a) things can't just appear on a page, b) it wouldn't 'know' when to appear and c) if it just appeared then it wouldn't make sense for the next person because it would say 'watch this space' but there would already be something there.

You swam in the canal?

If I were Alex, I'd give you the WP award.

Think of the phrase "breaking the sound barrier". That locution bedeviled the aviation community for decades because they took it literally.

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Yeah, I did the same thing! Only a few was 3/4 and several was 5 or more...
also, I couldn't figure out how long "the meantime" was supposed to last. I just knew it didn't sound fun. Heh.

LOL! My supervisor would come to me (typically on a Friday afternoon so I had all weekend to think about it) and say, "Now, I need you to keep am open mind." This always meant he had something for me to do that he knew I wasn't going to like. I would usually come to terms with it by Monday and sometimes even had figured out a better way to do it. To his credit, I think he understood I needed some time to accept this sort of change. He was much more understanding of people than I could ever hope to be.

Well, I've just learnt something new. Thanks. It's so obvious but I have never thought of things that way before... now I'm gonna fear compliments. xD That explains why my social worker would always take me out to lunch before 'dropping' bad news on me. I figured they were just using it as a convenient time to tell me everything (seeing they'd take me out regularly to discuss my case too).

I didn't understand it either. You give the cashier money and they give you some back. I remember being surprised at a garage sale when I was seven or eight when the neighbor said "No money." It was something new because she always gave me money back for the money I gave her for an item she was selling. I bought things there a few times.

Yes. You know how there are canal systems (water channels if you've got a different idea of what a canal is) in QLD, with houses along either side. All the kids used to swim in them. This was before all the publicity about bull sharks.

Will there be a ceremony and a trophy and everything?

I remember doing things as a kid and I wouldn't even know they were wrong until I heard my mother yelling, so I then knew I wasn't supposed to do it and blame it on my brothers. I didn't want to get into trouble. But in school, if a teacher asked me "Beth, did you do this?" in their normal tone, I answered it honestly and then I would get in trouble for doing something wrong the teacher asked me about.

Back then yelling meant "I wasn't supposed to do that. He/she is mad."
Normal tone of voice. "Not mad."
But then I learned later on thanks to getting in trouble for confessing, if I get asked I did something, I wasn't supposed to do it so I would lie about it. One time my 5th grade teacher asked me if I wrote "f**k" for one of my folders on the computer and I said "no."

Now I know you can talk in your normal tone of voice and still be mad.

I remember when I was nine, I went to Discovery zone with my friend and her little brother and sister and their mother. She bought us some cotton candy before we left and one of the kids asked her "Where does cotton candy come from?" and she said "Clouds."
I believed her and I asked how do they get them and my friend said they fly up there in a plane and pull the clouds and and take them down and they put color in them.

I don't know if she bought it too or she was just playing along with her mother. She was eight or nine then and her little sister was seven and their brother was three.

So I believed it for a while until I saw cotton candy being made when I was 10. My brother saw it and showed me. I told both my brothers cotton candy was made from clouds and my mother told them they were not and I didn't believe her but my brothers did. Then I thought the mother was wrong when I did find out how it was made. My mother told me in 6th grade she was kidding. All those years I thought she was serious and thought how foolish she was. Didn't she know you can't touch clouds, you just go through them so how the heck would they use them to make cotton candy? It never occurred to me she was just kidding.

I don't know what QLD is. The canals here are fithy and full of shopping trolleys and old bikes!

Sunshower, you wouldn't be getting the first prize for cluelessness, though. What I meant is you'd be getting first prize for the creative idea.

QLD is short for Queensland, a state in Australia. The canals where I live are clean waterways with sandy beaches that lead to the ocean. Nothing much in them except fish, and more recently, bull sharks.

Yay! I'd much rather win a prize for creativity than cluelessness any day.

Wow, that brought back memories that I had of tractors when I was young. Forgot all about that until I read this. Yeah, I used to think the same of tractors, huge monsters out to hurt people. Same thing with the vacuum for a while. It was the noise with both I think that brought that on the most. Noise overload. I remember not wanting to be near either.