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17 Oct 2008, 6:46 pm

I might just be able to make a comedy out of this...



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18 Oct 2008, 1:46 pm

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Another time, a friend at school was talking about her Italian heritage and how much she loved Italy. Now, I was getting pretty annoyed, because one of my older sisters (not the one previously mentioned) was living in Rome at the time, and I had the immature feeling that Italy had "stolen" my sister from me. So all of a sudden, I blurted out, "I hate Italy! Italy sucks!" The whole lunch table got quiet, and my friend grabbed me by the shirt and said through clenched teeth, "Don't you ever talk about Italy that way again!"


Not your fault, it's HER fault for being an over-sensitive, territorial little cow.
Tell her, "Tu sei grassa." next time you see her. If she grabs you again, she can be italian, if she says "What?" then point and laugh.

Hey, she's not MY friend.



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18 Oct 2008, 4:37 pm

I agree with the cow statement!



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14 Dec 2008, 8:58 pm

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Mine mostly involve my making a comment which others take offense at, because people have a tendancy to be oversensitive in my class.

For example, when we watched a video about domestic abuse, at the end I says, "Why would anyone stay with a guy who hits them?!" and a bunch of the girls in front of me took offense, which I found a bit dumb cos there's nowt wrong with that comment, is there?! But they DIDN'T bother yelling at the boys, who's reaction to the video was, "That was rubbish, there wasn't enough blood!"

And once in PE, everyone on my team was nagging me to try and jump the hurdle again, after I'd knocked it down with my clumsy feet, so I says, "No, I might land on my face and end up looking like you!" as a bit of a joke, and they're all, "You saying I'm ugly, that's well mean!"

I really hate when the popular people get all petty about stuff that's been said to them, cos they say worse to me every day and I just have to get over it.


Those people in your class have severe cases of their heads stuck up their asses if you ask me. There's nothing wrong with you, there's something wrong with them.

The next time they say something like "You saying I'm ugly, that's well mean!", then you should retort with "Nooooo, what's well mean is you lot making fun of something that I have no control over; have had since birth and sure as hell didn't ask to have, so get over yourselves." and then just walk away from them with your head held high.



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14 Dec 2008, 9:18 pm

One day a female classmate greeted me by extending out her hand. It was supposed to be just a regular handshake. But this particular time she inadvertently put her hand at a peculiar angle that made it look as if she were expecting me to take and kiss her hand. I refused to take that hand. I was severely reprimanded by everyone that day, and I was never able to pull out an appropriate apology.



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15 Dec 2008, 8:20 pm

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17 Dec 2008, 6:22 pm

gina-ghettoprincess wrote:
Mine mostly involve my making a comment which others take offense at, because people have a tendancy to be oversensitive in my class.

For example, when we watched a video about domestic abuse, at the end I says, "Why would anyone stay with a guy who hits them?!" and a bunch of the girls in front of me took offense, which I found a bit dumb cos there's nowt wrong with that comment, is there?! But they DIDN'T bother yelling at the boys, who's reaction to the video was, "That was rubbish, there wasn't enough blood!"

And once in PE, everyone on my team was nagging me to try and jump the hurdle again, after I'd knocked it down with my clumsy feet, so I says, "No, I might land on my face and end up looking like you!" as a bit of a joke, and they're all, "You saying I'm ugly, that's well mean!"

I really hate when the popular people get all petty about stuff that's been said to them, cos they say worse to me every day and I just have to get over it.

Wow those people sound like a bunch of candy-assed caddy imbeciles with there head so far up there ass Im surprised they can walk upright. People do this to take adavantage of your social awkwardness, I hate kids like that, yes CHILDREN. Best way to fix this problem, stay focused on what they said and come up with a logical come back that involves disagreeing with them WITH evidence of there arrogance. Thats what I do.



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05 Jan 2009, 2:57 pm

I have zillions, here are some of my most memorable ones.

when I was about 11 my friend's grandad had died and she was describing how it happened. She said that she had just found him in the kitchen lying down, the problem was her impression of her dead grandad sounded comical! I know it's mean but I suddenly had I stupid giggle fit! It's just the way she was telling me about it made me laugh! I'm surprised she stayed friends with me. 8O
Also she went my house not long after and she talked about her grandad, and she mentioned who gets his money and that, not knowing what a will was I said "isn't that stealing?" my mum had a right go at me.

At brownies the leader was lecturing us as usual, and she used the phrase "pull your socks up", and guess what I did, I actually pulled my socks up! :roll:

a few years ago in RE we were asking this pakistani boy questions about islam and asian cultures, and I actually said "why do asian women have loads of kids??" the whole class gasped in horror and the muslim boys laughed at me. the teacher was like "you should think before you speak"


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07 Jan 2009, 8:47 am

MONKEY wrote:
I have zillions, here are some of my most memorable ones.

when I was about 11 my friend's grandad had died and she was describing how it happened. She said that she had just found him in the kitchen lying down, the problem was her impression of her dead grandad sounded comical! I know it's mean but I suddenly had I stupid giggle fit! It's just the way she was telling me about it made me laugh! I'm surprised she stayed friends with me. 8O
Also she went my house not long after and she talked about her grandad, and she mentioned who gets his money and that, not knowing what a will was I said "isn't that stealing?" my mum had a right go at me.

At brownies the leader was lecturing us as usual, and she used the phrase "pull your socks up", and guess what I did, I actually pulled my socks up! :roll:

a few years ago in RE we were asking this pakistani boy questions about islam and asian cultures, and I actually said "why do asian women have loads of kids??" the whole class gasped in horror and the muslim boys laughed at me. the teacher was like "you should think before you speak"


Something similar to the first one happened to me, my friend was telling me and her other friend about how her hamster died of skin cancer, and I don't remember how but she said it in a funny way, so me and the other girl, and even the girl telling the story, started giggling. Somehow it was me who was made to feel guilty, though. How IS that?!

I don't see what's wrong with the last one. It's not exactly 100% PC, but it's not like you were being deliberately offensive. Believe me, it would have been worse if someone foreign had been in one of my classes, my RE class includes the most racist boy anyone could ever meet.


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11 Jan 2009, 11:58 am

Oh, man, so many...

- Inviting myself over to my friend's house. I guess he was telling me he was having people over...but I thought he told me the time and all...I realized when I got there he probably didn't mean to invite me and I felt really stupid and wanted to go home.

- Getting stuck standing there while other people have a conversation because I can't figure out how or when to excuse myself.

- Having to bear the news to friends that their neighbor and friend had died, and not being able to wipe a huge smile off my face (I have NO IDEA why I was smiling).

- When I met one of my favorite bands for the second time my favorite band member remembered me by name. When I was talking to him it got very uncomfortable. I couldn't think fast enough about what to say, and then when I was leaving, I saw him again and interrupted his conversation with some other people (actually, I think he interrupted it to talk to me) and I couldn't stop rambling about nothing. He was very polite and kind but I felt so stupid. I was so worried he'd think badly of me and wouldn't talk to me again that I sent him a message on MySpace (he checks his own) apologizing. I wasn't starstruck either.

That's all I can/want to think of right now.



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12 Jan 2009, 7:24 pm

Well the worst was I was talking to some girl a few years back. We were beginning to really like each other but I jumped the gun and said something I shouldn't have.

I know this sounds pretty typical for an aspie. I'd still consider it pretty bad because almost immediately, she refused to talk to me and she changed her cell number.

Other than that, I can't think of anything too bad.



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19 Jan 2009, 2:09 am

I have the tendancy to talk on and on for ages about things that I know no one else cares about, but because no one else cares about it, I feel the need to lecture...which rarely ends well.

I've spoken to the floor or wall when talking to someone. Like, really, really badly. Because it was at a place where I was trying to get a job, which didn't make for a good first impression. D:

And I've done the whole 'laughing when inappropriate' thing. My mom came home really late because her car was stolen one night, and I burst out laughing like it was the funniest thing ever and so I left the room.



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15 Jun 2009, 9:50 am

I don't understand why I keep doing the same things over and over.
Everytime I get a chance to make friends I screw up.
Does anyone else get stuck in the same rut?


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17 Jun 2009, 12:21 pm

Oh my, there must be hundreds.

When I get into a group of people talking about a topic, I often seem to start lying or inventing things in order to keep with the conversation, and it's bad when I get caught out on that.



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17 Jun 2009, 3:34 pm

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- Having to bear the news to friends that their neighbor and friend had died, and not being able to wipe a huge smile off my face (I have NO IDEA why I was smiling).


I know how bad that one can be. When I was in 5th grade, I ended up being the one to tell most of my classmates that one of our classmates, and my best friend, had died the night before. Worked out this way because I was the only one not crying. Of course, I didn't sleep at all the night before, because I was up crying all night. I found out about 12h before my classmates.

I did make a stupid mistake a few months ago. The memory of said friend came roaring back in my head, and made my emotions go crazy. I happened to find his brother online, and sent one e-mail first confirming he was who i thought he was, then, in an emotional outburst, I rapidfired a series of four or five fairly incoherent emails in about 10 minutes time to him. Later, I sent one appologizing, promising I wouldn't contact him again unless he replied, though I did desire to speak with him. I have never heard from him since.



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24 Jun 2009, 2:23 pm

I've made a few. Some of the recent ones I still have trouble figuring out because I can't quite see what I did wrong, but then by other people's reactions I seem to have done so...it's probably subtle things.