Have you ever met a scary person with AS?

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People have told me I'm scary because I remember different things so well. I can recite cartoons I haven't seen in ages from memory, I have a great memory for books I've read, I can sometimes recite several paragraphs, I remember things that happened years ago, and I have a good memory for interesting facts. I also have a tendency to share personal things sometimes because oddly as it sounds, I have a hard time distinguishing what people consider too personal to share, and what's all right. I've also scared people and/or grossed them out because I can be so frank. Like once we were having cake at work, and I mentioned that milk is actually nutritionally balanced for baby cows, not people, and that most of the milk was actually cow sweat. That the only milk nutritionally balanced for people would be people milk. Or when I mentioned that cats lose just as much body fluids through grooming themselves as they do urinating. The truth is, I just sometimes can't tell when it would be the right way or time to say something. I find different facts so interesting, and I'm not sensitive. I keep forgetting people may not want to hear what's in their food and stuff. Although I've gotten better at keeping my mouth shut, especially when people are eating. Then once, I scared a coworker because I was telling her how I heard at a wildlife place close to here, they feed the predators so you can see how lions and tigers and others eat, and I can't wait for my parents to take me hopefully next month, and I said how I would like to see the animals eat from an actual carcass. Or how I love to see the big cats hunt on wildlife shows. She said 'now that's a side of you I'd never thought you had'. Such things are just facts about one of my interests. To other people, I guess it's something else.

Everyone is scary to me.

I was in summer camp and this one girl I had to share a tent with was seriously creeping me out. I mean, she obviously liked me in that way and even though I'm normally cool with girls liking me as long as they know I'm taken and just want to be friends, she was just really creepy about it. Plus she was 11 because the camp I went to was for people ending 6th grade to people ending 10th. She was just really disturbing, like the way she said my name was pretty and instantly rushed up to hug me. Good thing I only spent one night in that tent and changed tents to the one full of girls who were my own age who WEREN'T creepy. They were pretty cool. Most were NT but maybe one was Asperger's. Long story short I tried my hardest to stay away from the creepy girl, but she kept on stalking me so me and the other girls kind of replaced her bugspray with sugar water.....