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Why is it inappropriate to hug people, even of your gender? Why is it inappropriate to hum at the dinner table? Why is it inappropriate to have strange or unusual imaginative play in front of others? Why is it inappropriate to read while other people are talking (this happened in class)?

I have no idea. I do this all the time!

I also do this all the time. And I don´t really care if people think I´m high.

Why is it appropriate to walk along smoking a cigerette (yuk!), but seems inappropriate to walk along munching a packet of crisps? Once I was eating as I was walking, and everyone who passed me looked at me weird, as though it was ''weird'', but nobody seem to look at someone who is smoking - which is a disgusting habit, and disgusts most people, and is on the path to killing you? It disgusts most people, yet they never look at the smoker in an odd way.

They think Aspies are weird, but they are pretty weird themselves, by making out some things are appropriate and some things aren't, even if there is no real reason as to why. Who makes up all these ''street rules''?

I've never been looked at strangely for walking down the street eating crisps.

Come visit the U.S. and you can walk while eating as much as you want and nobody will find it odd. If you visit a state fair, most of the food is on a stick so you can eat it while walking.

I have heard that eating while walking is something that is only socially acceptable in the U.S. so maybe this is your inner American coming out. Here in the U.S., we work diligently to make as many foods as possible easy to eat while walking. You can even eat scrambled eggs while walking. They're put into a bread rollup and called a breakfast burrito. Visit us, bring your packet of crisps, and we'll introduce you to a whole world of foods you never even imagined could be eaten while walking.

I didn't like sitting down at places eating burgers so I would walk around while I ate them.

Why is it inappropriate to ignore or not talk to people who don't like you, even when you don't like them? I get get how it works.

Because people value keeping the peace over hurting people's feelings and maybe causing a rukus even if they don't like the person. It seems to be about avoiding hurt feelings and confrontations. They grit their teeth when talking to people they don't like and the disliked might not even be aware of the fact! It does seem strange. I would rather know if someone doesn't like me than have them be nice to me so I think everything's great when it isn't.

Neither have I.

We're ''allowed'' to eat whilst walking when we are at funfairs, or carnivals, or other similiar occasions. But if it's just a mundane day in the high street we get looked at if we are walking along eating crisps or a lollypop. I always get glares when I'm eating a lollypop or crisps as I'm walking along. I only get glared at if I'm walking and eating on my own. If I'm with someone then I don't.

Yer, I know - it is so stupid, but that's the way the wind blows in this country. People judge people on the slightest thing. No wonder I read that the Agoraphobic case has increased in Britain.

It makes it seem like you care and are offering support to the afflicted. They know you do not mean it, but it is nice to hear anyway. Also, it makes you seem more human, which is always good when interacting with NTs.

Why is it inappropriate to cry when you're out in public? (Over 8 years old)

We have 2 little yorkies and this reminded me of saying something wrong once. When we first got them the little boy hiked his leg and peed on my hair (I was laying in the floor) EWWW! My parents were shocked I'd discuss something so causally.

Yah - always saying things with no idea it will gross out differently imagining people - though I carefully avoid the things I have been told are gross worthy.

On the other hand, there are things gross me out that others do casually.

Why is it inappropriate to lie down in public?

Why is it inappropriate to not respond when people greet you?

Why is it inappropriate to sit outside waiting for a staff person to show up? (Someone called the police on me.)

Why is it inappropriate to take a walk looking the way I look? (People used to call the cops all the time when I could walk around out there.)

Why is it inappropriate to burp or fart (and how the heck do people anticipate and control these involuntary bodily functions!?)?

Why is it inappropriate to "stim"?

Why is it inappropriate to be really happy and look really happy? (I once got in trouble with my psychologist when he took me out to buy a fish and I did a happy dance when we were looking at the fish and he lectured me constantly for days on "inappropriate displays of emotion".)

Why is it inappropriate, as far as I can tell, to just fricking exist as an autistic and otherwise disabled person, around other people!?

Why is that funny?

It could hit someone on the back of the head. Happened to me once. Even if it didn't hit me, it's still not funny.

Sometimes I think I have no sense of humour.

why is it inappropriate to look for a deep meaning in every single thing?