Eccles_the_Mighty wrote:
OK, confessions time, how I met my girlfriend.
I was at the gym and whilst I was working my way around the machines I noticed one of the trainers working with a pretty pony-tailed*** woman. For some reason this guy ALWAYS seemed to train the good looking women so I went up and asked him, "Klaus, how come you always get to train the pretty girls?"
She was in earshot, heard what I said, we got talking, and we've been together ever since.
If I wasn't an aspie I probably wouldn't have gone up and asked such a blunt question, so, sometimes, having AS can work in our favor.
*** So shoot me, I have a weakness for women with a pony tail
Unless they're total gym junkies, I think most women would feel self conscious at the gym when they're training amongst women who look fitter than them. A compliment can be quite encouraging.
And the fact that you paid her the compliment to someone else when you thought she wasn't listening gives it more integrity (makes it seem like an honest opinion about her). Whereas if you said it to her directly she would have suspected intentions behind it.