15 Jun 2012, 8:53 am
15 Jun 2012, 9:19 am
Alfonso12345
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15 Jun 2012, 12:58 pm
Two days later he tells me how embarrassed he was of my behavior that night and how everyone was so frustrated with me. I thought I was getting along well with everyone. I am very disappointed.
Do those people think you are psychic or something? If you ask me, this isn't an ASD moment. This is a bunch of people not explaining all the rules to someone like they should so they can make fun of them for not knowing these rules, moment. Try not to feel bad because they are at fault. They were the ones who messed up and got you confused because they did not explain the rules properly.
Alfonso12345
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15 Jun 2012, 1:38 pm
15 Jun 2012, 1:58 pm
Two days later he tells me how embarrassed he was of my behavior that night and how everyone was so frustrated with me. I thought I was getting along well with everyone. I am very disappointed.
Do those people think you are psychic or something? If you ask me, this isn't an ASD moment. This is a bunch of people not explaining all the rules to someone like they should so they can make fun of them for not knowing these rules, moment. Try not to feel bad because they are at fault. They were the ones who messed up and got you confused because they did not explain the rules properly.
See that's what I say... But I always seem to be in the dark with things. I think it's a matter of splitting up instructions in that circumstance. He asked me if I had a 5 and then insisted I had to trade cards with him. I was supposed to infer that I had to trade that 5 for a crap card from his hand due to my inferior position of having lost the previous game.
BUT I do think that is quite a stretch for even the average person to come to that conclusion without any previous knowledge of the game.
However, I am always inadvertently embarrassing myself in social situations and rarely can see what the cause was in hindsight so I just assume, if someone says I was acting inappropriately, I probably was because I usually am.
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15 Jun 2012, 6:42 pm
Alfonso12345
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16 Jun 2012, 10:23 am
Two days later he tells me how embarrassed he was of my behavior that night and how everyone was so frustrated with me. I thought I was getting along well with everyone. I am very disappointed.
Do those people think you are psychic or something? If you ask me, this isn't an ASD moment. This is a bunch of people not explaining all the rules to someone like they should so they can make fun of them for not knowing these rules, moment. Try not to feel bad because they are at fault. They were the ones who messed up and got you confused because they did not explain the rules properly.
See that's what I say... But I always seem to be in the dark with things. I think it's a matter of splitting up instructions in that circumstance. He asked me if I had a 5 and then insisted I had to trade cards with him. I was supposed to infer that I had to trade that 5 for a crap card from his hand due to my inferior position of having lost the previous game.
BUT I do think that is quite a stretch for even the average person to come to that conclusion without any previous knowledge of the game.
However, I am always inadvertently embarrassing myself in social situations and rarely can see what the cause was in hindsight so I just assume, if someone says I was acting inappropriately, I probably was because I usually am.
That is mostly why I avoid social situations as much as possible, unless it's with people I know will not laugh at me. But they should not have been laughing. It's not your fault you got confused. They should have just explained it again, nicer, without laughing. But most of the time I am usually too quiet, or too busy thinking about other things, to behave inappropriately, when I am in situations like that.
16 Jun 2012, 10:56 am
16 Jun 2012, 12:09 pm
I was watching a movie last night with my mom and my sister, when the DVD player malfunctioned and the stereo system started making an extremely loud and unpleasant screeching noise. My reaction to the noise was to curl up in a ball where I was sitting on the sofa, cover my ears with my hands, and start yelling to make it stop. When my mom fixed the problem, my sister started giving me funny looks, because my reaction was so much more violent than hers...
Also, I was playing sudoku, and my mom told me to stop. When I complained that I was having fun, she told me that I needed to be doing something else and that I have an "obsessive personality"...
16 Jun 2012, 12:15 pm
Also, I was playing sudoku, and my mom told me to stop. When I complained that I was having fun, she told me that I needed to be doing something else and that I have an "obsessive personality"...
That sounds like something my mother said to me and she once told me I have an addictive personality.
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16 Jun 2012, 9:06 pm
An ASD Father's Day dinner: I went out with my dad, sister and step-mom for father's day. (I have an AS diagnosis and my mom and I think my dad has undiagnosed AS). The restaurant we went to was noisy and crowded (which my dad did complain about at first but we figured anywhere we went today would be just as crowded). My sister and my step-mom were sitting across from each other and kept a lively, animated conversation going (just between the two of them) throughout dinner. My dad and I sat across from each other both with our arms crossed and looked at each other every five minutes or so very furtively and then looked around the room or off into space, until finally my dad said he had a trivia question for me and asked me a question about classical music composers (his main interest right now). I didn't know the answer so he told me and I nodded and said it was interesting. Then we said nothing for about five minutes when I proceeded to ask him a trivia question about ladybugs. My dad asked me another one about music after that. Then the food came and we just scarfed down our food without talking ( except for my dad complaining a bit about his food).................and my dad doesn't think he even has an ASD. 
16 Jun 2012, 9:36 pm
I think I had so many today, but by the time I even come on here every time, I have forgotten what they were but yet I can remember the fact I had them/one.
But yet I may remember one of them but it was not a latest ASD moment I had that day so I can't just post it in this thread.
16 Jun 2012, 9:59 pm
18 Jun 2012, 1:48 am
I spent much of Friday afternoon and Saturday reading about various bridges and bits of transportation-related minutiae. Yay special interests. 
And today I went to an event held at the grammar school I went to. I was able to identify every change made to the building's interior since I was a student there. I found myself stimming the entire time, and experienced some slight sensory overload from taking everything in... 
Considering I wear white socks with black shoes every day...
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18 Jun 2012, 10:03 am
White socks with black shoes is a kind of fashion statement, like everything else people choose to wear... unless it's just because you don't care or only have white socks. So, there's a small bunch of reasons, right there, why it's okay. Frankly, I think the contrast can be pleasant. It might be cool with a white shirt.
I like colors!
18 Jun 2012, 10:13 am
I like colors!
Better than black socks with white shoes!
I do like the contrast. Also, it depends on the shoes. One of these days I'll get around to the fashion flowchart for the sartorially-challenged (ASD and NT alike) who don't understand why women have 75 pairs of shoes and men have four. There's color, texture, silhouette, size, occasion, season, statement, etc.. Hey! I guess I'm having an Aspie moment right now! I could go on and on, except I'm at work and actually expected to do something besides goof off on forums...
