Pappa news a new pair of Shoes...

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Do you ever find that living with the blessings of high functioning Autism, is like craps. Now I've never acutally played Craps before as I'm not sure of the rules. 21 for instance is more of my forte. Anyways, from what I observe of this game, rollers may occasionally go on a winning stroll. They may occasionally win large sums of money, but this is very random. Some days I find myself having a very atypical good run of luck, amiss bad luck. But it's very streaky and very random. No matter how hard I prepair for it. It seems that I'm attached to the Pat Sajack wheel of fortune. Some periods I have it, MOST periods I suck. People see the "S" times as said by Mr Borat. And as him. I remember mostly those S times.

Anyways for example, say I'm playing volleyball, of course it's quite impossible for me to judge where that SO Ball is going to land, I miss, and I lose the "olympic round robin", (or to those little grade 6-9 spaz heads anyways). Then there are days where I'm serving perfectly. Or things in my head seem to fire on the right nerve, I say something brilliant. (obviously not in here of course heh). I don't know what possessed me to say such a creative thing, and yet I can't replicate or duplicate the circumstances that led me to have a good day. Then it's the "you had a bad day song" for like 364 days of the year, leaving 1 good kind of a situation.

It's like drinking the "Luck potion" on Harry Potter, (where he gets really high stumbles on to Hagrid's funeral with professor Slughorn.), with extreme luck but it wears off.

And I find it's a total crap shoot. *rolls dice* come on Daddy needs a new pair of shoes. Snake eyes!

meow

I don't really understand what you're saying or asking. Too many clever analogies.

But, I do have days where I have good social luck, and then weeks where I do everything wrong. Is this what you're saying?

I've developed the opinion that a lot of 'social luck' is borrowed from other people through socializing.
I know that if I hear a humorous quotation or intelligent observation, I try to remember it for the next time I'm in a similar situation. However, by the time the 'next time' rolls around, I just can't recall what was said. If I had a better social memory, of if I simply socialized more, I might be able to pull it off more consistently. (When my 'game is on' and I do remember novel sayings and ideas, I tend to be the life of the party for a short bit. It never lasts, of course, since I just can't remember everything to say.)

Everytime at work when I did come up with something "brilliant" and unexpected someone whould say rainman or laugh at the fact it came from me. Like I was some type of ret*d who just spit out a pearl of wisdom. It does not matter that the idea saved someone some time or helped keep a machine or tool from breaking down I was still seen as some kind of idiot. I could never win.