Weird Aspie Traits

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Weird as far as like, out in public kind of stuff? I tend to mutter to myself just under my breath a lot. It probably looks fairly normal say in the grocery store when I'm trying to remember what I need to buy and I'm mumbling about that. But probably not so normal if I'm just walking down the sidewalk mumbling to myself. lol

A lot of my talking to myself is just my way of trying to remember stuff, and I can control it. But I also blurt out odd random thoughts very compulsively. I do it in a very soft voice so a person might not hear me unless they are standing right next to me. But sometimes I say really weird stuff and it just flies out of my mouth before I can stop myself from saying it.

What worries me the most is if someone is really getting on my nerves, the minute they walk away I will start muttering things like "b***h" or "idiot." I do my best to control it but sometimes I can't help it.

I can also get so lost in my own world that I'm not really aware of what is going on around me. Not while I'm just walking around, usually only if I'm really absorbed in doing something, like in my job if I'm rearranging a display. It's like I get tunnel vision.

I touch everything I walk past.

When I hear a plane or see a satelite I look up and staaaaaareeeee... till its gone.

I will wear the same thing everyday. Not literally, but I wonder if people see any difference between the bunch of similar red sweaters, hoodies and tank-tops and the few pairs of dark jeans I wear repeatably.

LOL...As long as your clothes smell good--who cares?

Weird as far as like, out in public kind of stuff? I tend to mutter to myself just under my breath a lot. It probably looks fairly normal say in the grocery store when I'm trying to remember what I need to buy and I'm mumbling about that. But probably not so normal if I'm just walking down the sidewalk mumbling to myself. lol

A lot of my talking to myself is just my way of trying to remember stuff, and I can control it. But I also blurt out odd random thoughts very compulsively. I do it in a very soft voice so a person might not hear me unless they are standing right next to me. But sometimes I say really weird stuff and it just flies out of my mouth before I can stop myself from saying it.

What worries me the most is if someone is really getting on my nerves, the minute they walk away I will start muttering things like "b***h" or "idiot." I do my best to control it but sometimes I can't help it.

I can also get so lost in my own world that I'm not really aware of what is going on around me. Not while I'm just walking around, usually only if I'm really absorbed in doing something, like in my job if I'm rearranging a display. It's like I get tunnel vision.

Also have been told many times that a person tried to speak to me, but for whatever reason I didn't hear them.

Weird stuff I do at home alone is another story. I'm probably not even aware of half the stuff I do.

ImAnAspie: Yes, partly because we are human and partly because AS is a syndrome, - we share enough functional traits to define us as a group.

...Because my SSI comes in only once a month, I grocery shop for the entire month at once, which means a lot of canned vegetables, and multiple packages of the same things - I try to get a head start on putting things on the conveyor belt, because if I don't, the clerk will end up with a mountain of bagged cans before I can empty my cart and move it to the end of the line. It must look quite autistically strange, because they frequently comment on it. I've been asked if I was buying for a Food Bank, or a Church Cookout, among other awkward and embarrassing queries from talkative clerks who don't seem to comprehend that my personal business is really none of theirs. I must be the only customer they have who does this, but it just seems like the only practical thing to do. If I shopped week-by-week, I'd run out of money and food before the month was over.

Because my SSI comes in only once a month, I grocery shop for the entire month at once, which means a lot of canned vegetables, and multiple packages of the same things - I try to get a head start on putting things on the conveyor belt, because if I don't, the clerk will end up with a mountain of bagged cans before I can empty my cart and move it to the end of the line. It must look quite autistically strange, because they frequently comment on it. I've been asked if I was buying for a Food Bank, or a Church Cookout, among other awkward and embarrassing queries from talkative clerks who don't seem to comprehend that my personal business is really none of theirs. I must be the only customer they have who does this, but it just seems like the only practical thing to do. If I shopped week-by-week, I'd run out of money and food before the month was over.

I generally despise grocery shopping especially those markets with hippie customers and sandal-wearing staffers.

I don't know if this is a trait since my dad does it too, but when I start eating a food I really like I go "Umm, mmm". My mom told me she noticed this when we went out on dad's birthday this month. Now I feel weird from doing it.