Examples of "inappropriate behaviour"

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Hello. You may know that "inappropriate behaviour" is often associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
This i believe is partly due to people with ASD generally being

immature, but also because we aren't good at gauging how and when to act in some social circumstances...

I was wondering if anyone would like to give some examples of things that they have become aware of, which they have realised is now considered as "inappropriate behavior", doesn't have to be about your own behavior.

For a child it's okay to walk up to a random kid you don't even know and start playing with them and butt into their games. For an adult, that is inappropriate, even to do to other adults.

I have a knack for complimenting older ladies (50+) on their appearance, especially their dress, comparing them favourably to women my own age. "I wish women my age dressed/talked/comported themselves like that". I do this at the store where I work all the time, and they usually react quite well.

I have a knack for being overly forthright: after hearing a friend brag that her daughter had just got a first in media studies, I mumbled words to the effect of "a first in media studies isn't very difficult".

I can be somewhat insensitive: "what's up with him?", "He's a bit of a weirdo, isn't he?", "How can you get to such and such an age and not know how to do so and so?".

I visibly shake my head at people in public I think are being coarse in their behaviour.

I excessively compliment those who look or act in a way that fits my tastes, male and female. "You're all so incredibly respectable".

I conspicuously move tables in coffee shops if people have offensive perfume on, or if the music is too loud or I dislike the topic of people's conversation.



For the most part, the things listed are quite involuntary and, as it were, unconscious.

What is "inappropriate" is vague and subjective


"Inappropriate behavior" that lil dips**ts do:

Refer to themselves as "most people" and call me "you". So they overpower me because they outnumbered me. But there is only one of them and one of me


Taking Fido off leash and saying "shes friendly". Leash Law, ass holes! It does not matter if it is "friendly"



Taking a phone call while talking to someone





Saying "what" , like it is the etiquette equivalent of "excuse me". Then acting like every thought and emotion that goes through their head is the latest greatest scientific invention.




f**k Amy lee scheel b***h

f**k mister redelings


f**k Rolando Morales penis





"Holier than thou" attitude"

I'm sure you mean butting into conversations as an adult right??? That's usually the same old tired thing I have to learn the hard way ...

As a kid, I used to tell nudists on the beach off instead of just laughing at them behind their backs like everyone else or blushing like I do now.

Recently it was this little girl at the park. She was there with her mother and her mother was interacting with us, we were all part of a gym class and we were talking about her playing and helping her out. Anyway, she was eating grass. The mother got insulted because I said she was a bit wild like I was as a kid and suggested she got her an ice cream from the van if she was hungry. Even though other people pointed out the grass thing before I did and it's unhealthy to eat grass that dogs have probably peed on, even compared to ice creams...

Telling someone they have a pimple is inappropriate. It's okay if its your child.

It is inappropriate even for a child to butt in on conversations. Lesson learned the hard way-as in, "I'm not talking to you."

Stressing too much over your grades-that made me unpopular

*reads my post again*

Where did I mention conversations in it? Am I hallucinating here?

When guests and relatives came to visit my house, I always greeted them by saying "Hi, When are you leaving?" I didn't mean this disrespectfully. I needed to know exactly how long my routines would be disrupted, but I was blunt in the way I would word my question. I needed to get straight to the point.

This continued to my parents' horror until I was a teenager.

Now when I have friends or relatives visit my house, even for a few hours, I set an end time before they arrive. "I can visit with you until ____ ". Even this is considered blunt.

I think telling a mother they should not breastfeed in public is inappropriate and the mother is *not* being inappropriate for doing so.

I think sometimes that American men are totally Freudian and just can't stand to see a woman using her breasts the way they were meant to be used: to provide nutrition to an infant.

I read that in African countries there's little to no discretion with breastfeeding because if a baby is crying in public people think the woman that it's with is not the real mother or she'd be nursing it.

He's not officially aspie and this may also be an age thing although if he's NT it would surprise me and also he'd be very talented, talented enough already.

My stepdad is good at all accents except black British and Scouse.

He doesn't get (despite being told multiple times) that the correct place to demonstrate this is not the Indian restaurant.

His black British accent exists is my point with the black British one. I've never heard any second or third generation black person from the UK have an accent any different to RP or one from their area. He puts on a really stereotypical African American or Jamaican one when he's quoting someone who's black. Idk about Jamaica but I've never actually heard black people outside of racist cartoons do the American one, it sounds like the Jim Crows from Dumbo.

Also he pretends to play air cricket in the middle of the supermarket. I only do this with football if I'm walking down the street and I see a stone. I'm probably only 'getting away with' that cos I look young.

I agree. You never hear "African-American" accents amongst UK black people.

He does it for Obama too. Who doesn't sound like that.

He isn't racist he just doesn't get that it's the kind of thing only a racist NT would do.

I love this! I so wish I could do this! I make my husband set a time limit for visitors and he hates it so much, but it's slightly more socially acceptable for NT husband to req allowance for his AS wife than for me to just ask for it upfront. I wish it was ok to, though.

I also wish there was a way to find out how long one was expected to stay at something. I guess the equivalent would be arriving and saying, "thanks for having us, how long do you expect us to stay?" I know I can't say that, but it would make things so much easier!

So you want to know if a baby is male or female, instead of asking the parent or caregiver if the baby is a boy or a girl, it would be inappropriate to put your hands on the child and start undressing them to take their diaper off to see.