greenturtle74’s Cartoon Guide to Asperger’s

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Some of the stores have their own radio stations. I think that the recorded music acts as a kind of padding between announcements special offers. I think a lot of it is do to with marketing and money.

Or perhaps, real life is so awful for many people, that it has to be blotted out with a constant wall of recorded sound? Perhaps the music masks more unpleasant sounds. Although the loud music probably results in babies crying and kids screaming. I think that many kids are bombarded by sensory overload of the loud vocal music and advertising promises of products that their parents can't afford/think aren't appropriate.

May I suggest a compromise?

There could be live acoustic, lyricless music in the shop to blot out the unpleasant sounds.

How about an accordion player by the French bread section?
I think that would be quite jolly and appropriate. Not only that, it would ease navigation, as the sound got louder, you'd know that you'd be approaching the French bread section.

I really would enjoy listening to a live accordion player while I did my shopping.
However, this might send some people screaming from the shop.

Which would show that you can't please everyone all the time.

They look like NT and Aspie cavemen xD Funny, spot-on and accurate.

Yes! I would love this.

I think I would feel quite calmed if there was actually silence in the grocery store, except for ambient noise - people talking, carts rolling, registers beeping. (Maybe not the registers.) But for most people this would be so radical - so wrong! Isn't that how they did it back in the old days? You walk in the store, "Oh, hello Mr. Smith, how's the fish today?"

I love the "I'm just wired differently" cartoon, I am thinking of having it printed out and put on my wall.

Long ago, there used to be places called markets where there'd be live street musicians and sellers would talk to you. The same sellers would talk to you every week. Very slow and old fashioned, not as efficient and impersonal as automated checkout systems. Why even have a person at the till, when you could swipe the barcode yourself. Same goes for petrol. Why wait for a friendly person to fill up your car when you can pay at the pump?

Makes me wish that I lived in France (pity I don't know much French) or somewhere with some kind of local culture. However, I'd probably get overwhelmed by the crowds in the Market place. There are pros and cons to traditional Market vs supermarket.

The trouble with large supermarkets is that it's hard to meet the same till operator each time: you just head to the shortest queue. It's about efficiency over interpersonal interaction. There's no time to develop a social relationship with the seller. There's no time to absorb the atmosphere or haggle. There's no time for enjoyment or inefficiency.

At the supermarket everything is packaged, piped or canned, including the "ambient" recorded music.

This is pretty good. I'm doing a big language arts project (Influencing My Peers And Changing Tomorrow or IMPACT) on Autism, can I use this as my visual aid?

Please use the official version, available as a free download here: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-b ... ie/8076842

If some people on the spectrum have a hard time with facial expressions, body language and what the right time for what is, then how come you've managed to have these drawings accurately fit into the correct expressions and timings and things like that?
It's nothing against the drawings because they are cool. I'm just curious - sometimes AS confuses me.

this is my 1st posting since joining the community, i find myself dumbfounded
there is cartoon written all about me by someone I have never met. (only i am just beginning to understand and acknowledge that there is a reason that I have always felt like I was born on the wrong planet

That's an interesting question. I think for Aspies, the difficulty lies in reading other people's expressions because it's something external to us - our brains are interpreting the environment around us. Whereas when I'm drawing a cartoon, I'm drawing on an expression inside my own head - drawing myself in a way. So actually my cartoons can better represent what I feel than my face can, if that makes any sense.

keep up the doodles greenturtle74, I thought they were funny and true!

these were most amusing. i can relate to the one about facial recognition- im always doing that with my sisters. i didn't think it was an aspie thing. and i liked the ones about eye contact and 2s company 3s a crowd. didn't like the weird/wired one but thats just because i prefer to think of myself as weird because i am different to the norm and im not in the least ashamed. denying it makes it seem like you are.

Good job, greenturtle! This is the first time I've read it, and I really like it! It also helped explain faceblindness to me a bit better, too. (I think I'm slightly faceblind, myself...)

Awesome- humorous but to the point- perfect way of explaining to NT's

This one pretty well explains my life, thank you for articulating it!

Glad you posted this, I was just about to ask if I can use this to help me break my diagnosis news to my folks.