I've made sure to go to the pharmacy during the day-shift so I'm interacting with different the different pharmacist and a solid staff of friendly pharm techs. The one who made me cry only works the graveyard shift and he works it without pharm techs.
I have gone there once since the incident on this Pharmacist's shift. He saw me, paused, looked very intimidated and shy, gave a little smile and gave a little wave at waist length (without raising his arm). He was very polite and embarrassed acting. He didn't act that sheepishly the times that I went there before the incident. It was awkward for me because it'd been a month, so whatever my husband said burned into his brain and he remembered me. But he did very well.
I did not report him because I figured he was an aspie based on how he was being rude (not that he was being rude). He seemed overwhelmed. While it was wrong and inexcusable, I still made his behavior excusable because I understood it, even if it made me cry (because that's how I respond when I'm overwhelmed by confrontation). How he behaved toward me this time really just drove it home that I was probably right. So far he's demonstrated: social awkwardness, need for efficiency, easily overwhelmed, overreaction when overwhelmed, barely talks, to the point when he talks, no direct eye contact, meek demeanor, etc.
I really just want to blurt, "Do you have Aspergers?" but, as someone with AS, I know that experience would be horrifying!
11 Mar 2011, 10:23 am
