Tory_canuck
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Age: 38
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,373
Location: Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
27 Jun 2009, 12:47 am
27 Jun 2009, 12:55 am
CockneyRebel, that is one of THE BEST expressions i have ever heard to describe "cheque day."
Brilliant. YOU made my day. I am sitting with the laptop here, chuckling to myself.
27 Jun 2009, 1:04 am
You know the most unfair thing about it? If everyone else knows something and I don't then I'm a weirdo for not knowing. Yet if I know something out that nobody else has a clue about I'm "a nerd with too much time on my hands".
I can't win.
I'm way over being embarrassed about not knowing who a particular actor is in such-and-such a movie. If anyone looks at me weird I'll remember to get back at them by mocking their lack of physical intuition. Once I was in the car with a friend and there was a rainbow ahead of us. He thought it should get bigger as we drove "closer" to it. How can anyone think that? I figured out that you can't ever get "closer" to a rainbow when I was 6 years old watching the backyard sprinkler.
Justin6378
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Joined: 22 May 2009
Age: 46
Gender: Male
Posts: 254
Location: Colchester, eastern England.
27 Jun 2009, 1:08 am
i once blew a raspbery at my boss in a kind of an i told you i was right way 
with my hands at the sides of my face, wiggling my fingers a bit like this 
but without the bowing 
everyone in the room went like this 
before laughing!
i was nervously giggling out of sheer embarassment!
28 year old men aren't suposed to do that sort of thing
27 Jun 2009, 1:21 am
^ yes. or 46 year old women.
I regularly make a fang claw sign in public - which is a childhood reference to our family fang club. Some years ago my siblings and I were all sightseeing at a cathedral overseas (my dad nearly carked it so we all rushed over there. he lived....)
I was 43 and while the siblings sight-saw and discussed the next shift at the hospital and how my dad was fairing, I would make claw signs at other sightseers who were walking along the clerestoried aisles of old gothic buildings. (Perhaps another one of my strange emotional responses to the prospect of death/grief?)
My siblings know me. They would apologise on my behalf to the shocked tourists and say something like "oh my goodness, we need to leash her again."
the behaviour was similar to what i did as a kid. Everyone else grew out of it (well, only in public 
) and i continue on haunting the general public like some fang signing Phantomess of the opera without the mask.
I am a big kid. always will be. It is weird but good.
27 Jun 2009, 6:01 pm
Multiple times I've not been able to figure out how to use someone else's bottle opener to get the top off a beverage. I'll be like "hmm, do I use this end or that end, or do I use the hole in the middle, f*** none of them are the right size", then someone sees me getting all flustered and shows me.
Other times I was asked to set the table and I got out the wrong kind of glasses for wine and/or give everyone salad forks instead of dinner forks. Ugh.Another time in college I was on the highway pretty late at night, coming back from a trip with two other friends. When I stopped for gas I noticed that one of my tires was losing air so I used the gas station pump to fill it. I didn't know you had to release the handle to read the tire pressure so I assumed the air wasn't getting in since the needle wasn't moving. The light was so bad I could hardly see in the first place. Then just as I was thinking "WTF is wrong with this thing", the tire ruptured with a really loud POW.
OMG, that's ME!! ! All of that stuff, including the tire! Actually, my tire (tyre) didn't rupture, but the cheap plastic tire pressure gauge I bought BLEW apart with tremendous force. Then I had to figure out how to get air out of the tire. I eventually called the only human being whose phone number I knew by heart, who was someone who made me nervous to talk to, so I didn't want to.
When I turned 21, I bought myself a bottle of wine (to drink alone in my room, because I didn't know anyone that I wanted to share a bottle of wine with, and just wanted to listen to music), and I had no idea how to open it. I didn't have a corkscrew or whatever, or access to a store that sold one. I lived in a building with 300 other people, but didn't feel comfortable asking any of them.
And about asking for help, I've also noticed that NO ONE ever has to ask how to do things. I learned very early that other kids had been born knowing how to play kickball and Monopoly. I never observed anyone saying, "I don't know how to do that. Could you teach me, please?"
Perhaps you're being a bit hard on yourself. Many people learn how to play those games when young or preteens as they socialize within different groups. Sometimes we tend to be a bit hard on ourselves. Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses even the NTs we know.
Oh hey don't try to ask me to teach you to bowl or keep the score using the cards...I really suck at sports and scoring games
All I did was play pinball and the jukebox when I went with friends. Funny thing is my dad was such a good bowler he was on a local league
27 Jun 2009, 6:57 pm
27 Jun 2009, 7:59 pm
Long, long before I'd ever heard of Aspergers, going back to the early 1980's I told people that there must be some kind of "Social Dyslexia". And I had it, 'big time'.
fiddlerpianist
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Age: 47
Gender: Male
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Location: The Autistic Hinterlands
28 Jun 2009, 8:52 am
You know the most unfair thing about it? If everyone else knows something and I don't then I'm a weirdo for not knowing. Yet if I know something out that nobody else has a clue about I'm "a nerd with too much time on my hands".
I can't win.Yes. I've tried bringing up the, "Yes, but you don't know who Paddy O'Brien is..." and it never seems to work.
gina-ghettoprincess
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Age: 29
Gender: Female
Posts: 2,669
Location: The Town That Time Forgot (UK)
28 Jun 2009, 8:55 am
The worst thing for me is when I try to act "normal" and "outgoing", but because people hate me, they just look at me weirdly. I don't get embarrassed when I'm quietly reading, so why the hell can't people just leave me alone to do that?!
Me too.
Once, my friends were on about how sexy some footballer is, and I was just like, "Who the hell is he?" and they all laughed at me. I said, "Well, I don't even like football, do I? You know that," and they say, "Neither do we but we still know who the players are," and I was like, "But WHY?"
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