FishStickNick wrote:
I have the bad habit of simply not responding when someone is talking to me. I might hear what they're saying just fine, but I might not want to expend the energy to respond to them, or I see no need to. I often do this when I'm busy working on something. No idea if this is associated with anything ASD-related or if it's just me, so I thought I'd ask for the sake of curiosity.
I have much better hearing than people realize and have heard people say things about me that they don't think I can possibly hear. Some of the things I've heard were quite disturbing misconceptions of me.
My reaction is to completely ignore them. I figure that if they are going to believe whatever misconceptions they may have, then they are not likely to believe me when I say that the misconceptions are wrong. Also, I know from past experience is that if I get upset about the misconception, I am more likely to say really stupid things that do noone any good. It took me forever to finally understand that, but now that I do, I try to just keep my mouth closed.
And there have been times when I thought someone was talking about me but they were actually talking about someone else. So when I tried to "correct" what they were saying about me, they were caught completely by surprise.