Does it bother you when strangers talk to you????

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Man it irks me when people start talking to me out of nowhere. I used to be pretty social when I was younger..so I don't know why it has really started bothering me lately... but just yeaterday I was in the grocery store with my sister and this lady was going on and on about how I neded to clip coupons, that she has saved bla bla bla.. (OK that was when I tuned her out.)
Then there are those folks who say a sentence to you in a store and walk away... I just get left there standing thinking about what they said.. (like what am I supposed to do with this...)

Ha...I find it a little frightening sometimes...random strangers on my residence like to just talk to anyone when they are drunk. When random people just come and talk about whatever, I really don't know how to possibly respond. I understand often its out of friendliness, and I don't mind it so much if they make a joke relevant to something going on around us, or the like. If I know I can just laugh or dignify it with a short response, its cool.

A few days ago at school, some guy said hi to me. I acknowledged him and then out of nowhere he told me the Toronto Maple Leafs were really good this year. I suppose he was somewhat mentally challenged by the way he told me this. I sorta just nodded my head and he walked away.

sometimes it weirds me out when strang people talk to me, but i dont mind it much.

I don't really like being talked to by strangers, especially if they are coming onto me and i'm not interested.

I can handle it fine otherwise, though.

It all depends on -how- said stranger is talking to me.

Oddly enough, usually it doesn't bother me at all. Sometimes I feel more comfortable when a stranger is talking to me (as opposed to completely avoiding me). Of course, I often find that I have nothing intelligent to say back.

It does bother me when people I don't recognize (people I've presumably met but are strangers now) wave to me or say hi. It drives me crazy trying to figure out who they are.

Also, I can't stand having other people touch me. For a while I couldn't shake hands with anyone.

Yes, it's extremely bothering. Something else I find bothering, is strangers touching you. My coworkers do it constantly. A clap on the back or a touch on the shoulder, it's like a jolt of electricity. I do, though, enjoy flirting (non-verbal) with female strangers. That's fun.

What drives me mad are the ladies offering samples of gross looking food at the grocery store. I feel attacked when they try to get me to sample their vile goods. I want to overturn their tables like Jesus with the money changers! It really drives me nuts. I'll arrange my whole grocery-store route just so that I can avoid them. The aisles are crowded enough!! !

Yes. That's why I'll probably have trouble getting a job. I feel scared when I'm around a lot of people that I don't know. There has to be at least one person with me that I do know.

It depends on the person's age and the method that they use.

mummy told me never to talk to strange men, especially those with sweets or puppies.

If the stranger happens to bring up a subject I'm interested in and familiar with, then look out!.....because I won't shut up about it....It usually drives them away unless I get selfcounsious earliy enough and abruptly end the conversation....which also makes things akward so they usually leave.

If i'm out to get a task done and I'm intereupted by someone, I'll show little interest, blank stare, maybe nod my head here and there.....throw in a little smile maybe.
Basically just humoring them so I can geton with my day. Some can tell I'm not interested and cut things short.

(Usually*) I'f I'm approched by 2 or more.....I try to avoid it completly. I can't follow anything being said because I'm always wondering what the other/others are doing.

* This past summer I was out on the bike, pulled into a restaurant that is a popular motorcyclist hangout so I could rest and take a few pictures.
While taking off my gear off, I see about 10 people ranging from ages 12 to 55 heading staight for me I turn to look behind me and see there is no one else around. I'm like OH NO!

So I prepare for invasion and just focus on the one guy who introduced himself.
Turns out he has the same bike I do and was just curious about my ownership experiences with it so far. We exchanged information about our experiences, then proceeded to go on and on about other stuff I can even remember because at that point I was very ready for the converdation to be over and everyone else to go away.

I think I handeled it OK
It was nice to be reminded that I'm human, but at the same time I could have very happily gone through the day without that experience.

I sometimes enjoy talking to people I don't know. Intially at college I'd just go up to people and talk them, I'd do quite fine. Then I really got annoyed because this girl made an intentional yawn gesture and said ''Sam I don't care about Orange Juice".
So I've become unsociable due to me not taking a genuine interest in what they talk about and them just getting bored at most crap I say.

When I was walking outside the forum in Norwich I got bored and saw a group of emo/indie kids I went up to them and told them to listen to The Talking Heads. To my suprise they did and we had a lengthy discussion about music and how nearly everyone in Sheringham/surrounding towns hate the music I like.
If I share a common interest with a stranger I like them.

A guy in the bookstore hit my shoulder. I think he was telling me to move. I cant stand it when people I dont know do that.

It very much depends on the person, the subject of conversation and my own mood. If I happen to meet another aspie I'm usually thrilled to talk because it so rarely happens. I talk to a lot of people that other people don't give the time of day, homeless people, quiet people, children... If I can control the conversation I don't mind talking to most people but honestly its usually more of a socially acceptable way of talking to myself, getting ideas out, not so much talking to the person as at them (as people have so many times accused me of doing). I do like to talk with interesting people though.