What kind of psychological group does *this* for fun?

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So, I was on the bus, and I was studying for my economics test today and there was another female sitting next to me. While I was sitting there, I could detect the girl might have been possibly interested in me judging from her body language, so I thought I'd have some fun, so I decided to play an unusual spontaneously invented game, a game that was intrinsically fun and because I knew it'd creep her out (The vast majority of my female college peers are the shallow, 'sane' NT types.).

So, the game was this... I wanted to mentally recite the alphabet backwards, but that was getting kind of boring because I've done that many times before, so I added a new spin on it. I would recite the alphabet backwards using some kind of pattern. So, let's consider 4 letters for demonstrative purposes, w, x, y and z.

The first pattern was the 4th letter->2nd letter->3rd letter->1st letter, so that'd be z, x,y,w.

The second pattern was the 3rd letter->2nd letter->4th letter->1st letter, so that'd be y,x,z,w.

And then I went down the alphabet, backwards, alternating between the first pattern and second pattern, and then checked my accuracy when finished. I skipped over 1 letter (The letter 'o'), but I *did* accurately complete the task otherwise.

So, does anyone invent games like these when you're bored in a situation where there's nothing else to do (besides, say, sitting on a bus.)?

Oh, and, as I left the bus, the girl didn't "freak out" like that fat girl did last week (Jesus, that was weird because I wasn't *trying* to do anything weird; I was just reading a freakin' book.), but I could tell she definitely had that "Oh god, you're a weirdo" facial expression, lol.

I do my own kind of very hard to follow confused word accociation, occasionally I do it outloud, it calms me, work accociation meets stream of thought.

Its sort of like mental echolia meets word accociation, I start with a subject, for example "politics" is the subject, then a single word, and do word accociation

First word will be "red"

Red flag flag flag poliik, real politik, real politik, david cameron, conservaism conservatism lib lib liberalism the tradgedy of the communal property must be found eith the egg under the tree the seeds grow into a door i walked through a black hole into the solar plexis to find that julie had walked backwards the tape recorder goes till the beginning of the sentence reachs the finish lining of that dress

taken in segments, it makes sense slightly more sense.

Yeah, I invent games in my head when I'm bored, but I do not do it very often. Most of the time when I'm bored and it isn't possible to do much of anything, I'll imagine myself playing a video game I've thoroughly memorized. It's awesome since I don't need a controller.

Usually what I do is I'll start imagining Godzilla destroying things. Hmm... what would happen if that car was picked up and thrown into that building?

When I was a kid, I'd try to come up with chains connecting words that are somehow related, like for instance, "chapel" scrambled becomes the (made up by me) word "pleach", and if you change one letter you get "preach", which is something that can be done in a chapel. Or you can "swallow your words", and if you rearrange "words" you get "sword", which is also something that many people have tried to swallow. I wouldn't ever say these out loud, though.

When I get bored, I practice random words in sign language....however the squence you described would confuse me very much since I have executive fuctioning dysfunction which is basicly about poor ability to sequence things. However such patterning of the alphabet would facinate me, not freak me out.

I do this game as well, only it's not me reciting the alphabet backwards, it's something like me staring at people until their head explodes, or me making offhand comments about someone's mannerisms, or slightly veiled masturbation references, or anything that can test someone's boundaries by investigating their comfort zones.

Your story completely confused me. Whatever does this girl have to do with inventing games? Your ability to "read" people and even notice them astounds me. I have no such skill or energy...

My self-reported ability to "read people" implies nothing about my accuracy, lol. Most NTs seem to be quicker / more-accurate than me in identifying emotions, so I could be wildly off.

Anyway, the girl was involved because ummmm.... it was fun to think I could weird her out. It's fun to mess with certain types of people you dislike, you know? (Maybe you don't. Maybe that's the "inner NT" in me speaking, lol. Interesting, on another thought, if the "fun to mess with people you dislike" characteristic is a common NT trait, then that might be the mechanism behind why aspergers individuals get harassed, teased and bullied by many NTs. I wonder if there's a more fundamental reason for this I'm-antagonizing-you-because-I-dislike-your-type behavior.)

How did you know that you did not like her?

How does your game weird someone out?

I am obviously soooo socially clueless. The fact that you put all this effort/thought into what another person (I presume a stranger) is or isn't in relation to you and then follow it up with some random act to get a reaction out of her is sooooooo weird to me. Very NT like...

Another fun game to weird people out...

Close one eye and, holding your thumb and index finger a foot away from your face, pretend you're squishing their head between your giant fingers. Or you can quickly close one eye and open the other to make the giant hand instantly teleport to the left or right.

I don't understand the point of any of this. If you don't know someone why would you want to 'creep them out'? Come to think of it, why would you if you knew them? Doesn't sound very nice to me.

Sounds like the OP was just trying to entertain himself.

But yeah, do try to entertain yourself without creeping people out. You may end up suspected of doing things you never wanted to do--I've heard of sexual harassment accusations being leveled at socially awkward bored people who never intended anything of the sort... Not only did they get accused of it, but they evidently bothered somebody enough that they were extremely uncomfortable and maybe even frightened. That doesn't sound like a lot of fun to me. If you can portray a nerdy/awkward/eccentric vibe rather than creeping people out, do that; or you may let them assume you are cognitively disabled, which most people don't find too threatening. It all depends on how you tend to come across.

Me neither. And I don't know what kind of psychological group does this for fun. I'm not even sure what is meant by "psychological group".

It's an aggregate word for all sorts of human classifications. These human classifications include but are not limited to the following: Aspergers individuals, schizophrenics, bullies, neurotypicals, nerds, freaks, geeks, creeps, people with executive function within the 10th percentile, people fascinated by alphanumeric patterns, computer scientists, people with a lifelong history of privilege and an intolerance for bubble-headed blondes, and so on. More than one possible group may apply.

And, to everyone who's replied, I could tell I disliked 'her type' because you could tell she was the fad-influenced normal ditsy type of female from the way she was dressed in the latest fashions, the way she kept her looks and I could overhear her conversation at beginning of the bus ride when she was conversing with a friend across the aisle. And, no, I wasn't "trying" to weird her out, but I figured that it probably would considering my knowledge of her type, and so I embraced the activity that much more because I knew it would. See, the fact it might've got a reaction was a bonus (And if she didn't care, then that would've been awesome! But, alas, these kind of people tend to be intolerant of deviances from the norm since they strive for it and exalt it.), but not the primary motivation.

So, as kfisherx suggested, is this kind of thinking really soooooo 'NT'? That is, aspies don't think about this kind of thing?

Oh, *tear*. What will I ever do when I find out I was just a strange, repulsive NT all along?

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LOL. *pretends to be someone else* Let's pick on the ret*d on the bus!

Yeah, great idea. (Actually, I wonder how I could actually reliably convey the impression that I'm cognitively disabled? Other than the possibility of letting drool hang from my mouth and flapping my hand against chest, it almost seems I'd inevitably get shoved into the "freaking weird person" category than the "ret*d person" category.)

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