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Esmerelda Weatherwax
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27 Aug 2018, 9:25 pm

People say, "How are you?" and you actually think they *want to know how you are*

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28 Aug 2018, 6:23 am

arth_96 wrote:

... you take 20 minutes just to get a bottle of water at the shop because you have to calculate all potential mishaps and then try to avoid a meltdown because despite your caution, there's still unexcepted things happening to you!

... you try to call someone and you prepare all your conversations in French before the call but then they reply to you in Dutch, you don't know what to say (even though you speak Dutch!) and because of the pressure, you just hang up. (I'm from Belgium)

Let me guess.

You live in Belgium?

Right?

Aspies in Quebec might have that problem with English vs French. And maybe in some corners of the US it might be English vs Spanish.

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28 Aug 2018, 6:47 am

kazanscube wrote:

When your mannerisms are quite noticeable to where, others often look at your strangely or consider you like some sort of Rain- Man like person.

One of my many nicknames growing up and even to this day at 43 years of age was Rain Man. Although, of all the nicknames I had, I prefer this one the most... I must be Autistic.

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28 Aug 2018, 7:32 am

When changes in environment takes a while for your brain to get used to, for example often for a good half an hour after leaving the house, I kind of feel a bit surreal and distant (physically) from my surroundings. It's not pleasant and sometimes triggers panic.

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28 Aug 2018, 9:28 am

When you go around spinning all over the place non stop.

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28 Aug 2018, 9:30 am

When you are obsessed with what other people may be thinking about you.

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28 Aug 2018, 3:47 pm

Fnord wrote:

When you are obsessed with what other people may be thinking about you.

I have not heard that that is an autistic trait. I thought that is a fairly common thing, the adversting and marketing industries make their profits exploiting this thought pattern.

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28 Aug 2018, 4:19 pm

ASPartOfMe wrote:

Fnord wrote:

When you are obsessed with what other people may be thinking about you.

I have not heard that that is an autistic trait. I thought that is a fairly common thing, the adversting and marketing industries make their profits exploiting this thought pattern.

Read a few threads in the Love & Dating section.

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28 Aug 2018, 4:24 pm

You wish people would stop modulating their voices.

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28 Aug 2018, 4:44 pm

<--- Aspie Alcoholic

Spends hours in the grog shop calculating alcohol per volume per $ to get the most bargain drunk.

(Have been sober for 29 years now but that memory always makes me smile)

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28 Aug 2018, 6:27 pm

Esmerelda Weatherwax wrote:

People say, "How are you?" and you actually think they *want to know how you are*

And you actually stop to think about ...how you are doin' at the moment....and then try to rate how you are doing on a scale of one to ten, and then figure out how to translate that number into an adjective (like if its seven - "okay to pretty good")…..so you can give the person a literal answer to the question "how ya doin'?".

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28 Aug 2018, 9:45 pm

~ You can listen to the same song over and over again for hours.
~ You like things or have interests that most people aren't interested in.
~ You like things that are considered mundane, such as attention to detail, noticing stuff in movies/TV shows.
~ You see things other people overlook.
~ You're more expressive than other people.
~ You're a bright and shining light, in a barren world, that other people find it hard to see, appreciate.
~ The world doesn't make sense because it is far from logical.

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28 Aug 2018, 9:56 pm

People have compared you to a robot on several occasions, sometimes as a compliment and sometimes an an insult.

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29 Aug 2018, 1:37 am

Child of the Universe wrote:

People have compared you to a robot on several occasions, sometimes as a compliment and sometimes an an insult.

You know, every day when I answer the phone and say, "Hi, this is [my name]," there's a pause because the other person thinks they got my VM. I'm that robotic in my delivery

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29 Aug 2018, 11:11 am

When you’re watching TV at a friend’s place and you put all their couch pillows on top of yourself and they ask if you want to switch spots with them to the couch with no pillows and you answer “no. I didn’t bring my weighted blanket so I put all the pillows on top of me. They’re heavy.” because it made sense in your head. She’s used to me so she just said “oh, ok.” And went back to the show :lol:

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29 Aug 2018, 11:31 am

You're so impatient and easily irritated with people in public, that you wish you could afford to move to a less populated area.

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