This is the reality of autism

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogOKGg4h21M[/youtube]

Hey Daniel, you're awesome!

I have fun....

Wrapped up in my humour is blunt reality, and the reality that's my autism shows itself as a person staring into oblivion and unresponsive in a social situation.

actually a very well made point! I think people don't understand that we do this a lot and it has no significance other than the fact we are thinking.

"I KNOW" it just happened to me IRL, "unresponsive in social situations".

And I'm tired of feeling like a failure at it too.

Hang in there. It's good to find whatever humor possible and not take these things too seriously. But it's easier said than done when it really matters.

yes such a good point daniel, i do this too, i stare off into space unaware of anything going on around me, i sorta jus got stuck in the abyss i call it, where mentally im jus not there, but physically i am, tis weird, anwyays cool video!

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Thanks for cheering me up.

Cool.

I've got about a zillion and one ideas in my mind for similar shorts poking fun at everyone involved in the politics of ASDs, in addition to ASDs themselves.

This is very similar to my autism until I reached the age of 10-12 years, except that I was constantly flapping as well. After I started interacting with the outside world I became quite verbal and felt compelled to constantly make comments when around others conversing (often only tangentially related). I suppose had I been on a special diet at the time, that would have been considered the miracle cure.

I still spend a lot of my time lost in thoughts and, if I actually wanted to, I could get a lot more accomplished if this wasn't the case. I adore being lost in my thoughts though. It is a very pleasant world.

Your comment, Daniel, about "freaking boring" made me wonder if you were referring to your own feelings. I have read others here speak of being bored, but I never feel that way.

"Not talking" is not the same as "not there"!

You'd think they'd get that eventually, but apparently NTs are caught up in the idea that they can read everybody the same way, so they use their "reading another NT" coding to read us... which really doesn't work any more than reading German while convinced it must be English and unaware that languages other than English even exist. Not that they can't learn; NT family members of autistics do it all the time; but lots of them don't even realize that it's necessary to learn how different kinds of people communicate in the first place.

Apparently how my autism looks to other people is a very smart, scattered, hyper sort of person... my stimming comes across as hyper or nervous depending on the interpretation. If I'm not lecturing on a special interest I can be taken as ret*d, which isn't too far from the truth in the actual area of socializing. Oddly enough, it is almost better when people think I'm not smart, because people who know you're smart expect you to be able to do lots of things, some of which you might not be able to do. Like, "You're too smart to miss me telling you to stop talking about surgery at the dinner table!" when they never said any such thing, just telepathed it and expected you to be able to listen. But then, people who think you aren't smart will also expect you not to be able to do lots of things which you can do, and will often be really flummoxed when you unexpectedly bring out the random facts you learned about string theory the other day.

:lol: Some people ask me "Where did you go?"