It happens mostly with doors, and I wonder if it is autism, or plain common.
I am going to open a door, and it does not open (because I need to press a button to my right). I keep trying to open it, until someone tells me there is a button to my right. I always wonder how long it'd take me to open it otherwise.
The other day the door was kind of jammed, and I waited for a security officer to open it for me. When I am going to leave the establishment, I start looking for a button thinking it is locked, but the door simply needs oil in the hinges, so all I had to do was push it real hard, and it opened. I spent like twenty seconds between pushing it softly and then looking for the button.
Just today, I went to the subway station, and I was going to recharge the subway card. I insert one dollar into the machine, but it is not taking it. I keep trying. Nothing happens. I insert the card. Nothing happens. Then an employee finally told me I had to press a button to tell the machine I was going to insert money.
If the way of doing something is not what I expect, I keep trying to do it that way, regardless.
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Your Aspie score: 163 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 50 of 200
