Whats your most recent ASD moment?

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This isn't funny (as a few here are), but this just happened today:

Got to work, and in less than 15 minutes of being there I get chewed out for misunderstanding directions the day(s) before (they just caught it). I had no idea that I didn't understand, apparently I was just supposed to "read between the lines" and *know* exactly what to do. I didn't ask for further instruction because I thought I knew exactly what they wanted. One of the people who were reprimanding me actually began insulting me when it wasn't even 100% my fault. Then, she acted like she was going to "help me out" by making sure "I got it right" next time. She was being snide. It made me SO ANGRY!! !

I managed to keep myself together, but I came VERY close to a full-on meltdown within 15 minutes of arriving to work.

This afternoon running into the only other person I know face to face with AS and getting into a 45 minute long conversation about ADHD meds, the different types of drugs in them, how they work in detail, standing in front of the grocery store, right in front of the doors so people went around us, completely oblivious to everybody else.

We GOT INTO the conversation. We literally talked about that topic, standing in the spot we ran into each other at, for 45 solid minutes. We weren't in the way exactly, but we were about six feet away slap dab in front of the door. The only reason we stopped was that his ride got there. Then he said "Theres my ride, bye" and I said "bye" and that was it. No "good seeing you, love to your wife" etc. When I ran into him I said "Hey, how you?" and he said "Anxious, I'm off my ADHD meds" and that started it........

ETA; It wasn't a conversation about suggesting a med to him and telling him how someone else did on it, or if insurance paid for it, it was about the chemicals in each, the action, etc. We didn't talk about how they worked for him when he was on them, how long he was on them, what my son takes, etc. It was just about the drugs.

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Meltdown 2 weeks ago, after being insulted by a neighbor.

I guess this counts as an "ASD Moment" also...

Yesterday afternoon, we took my daughter out to eat for graduating 5th grade. Well, we told her that she could choose, and she happened to choose the very restaurant that we had bad experiences with about 3 times in a row. Well, I tried to be optimistic and went ahead and went there. Well, unfortunately the let me down yet again and screwed everything up...badly. After an abnormally long dinner (due to screwups in the kitchen) the waiter volunteered to go get his manager because he knew it went badly...and the then the manager not giving two sh*ts about it in the end...I had a minor meltdown and required us all to go home afterwards instead of going to see a movie as planned.

At this moment, I am sitting on the kitchen floor with my laptop on my lap. I am stimming. I am effectively ignoring everyone else in the house. I have a Wikipedia page about a special interest open in one browser window and I have Wrong Planet open in another. I've been playing the same song on repeat for the last half hour. I think this counts as an ASD moment...

I was at the dentist, the women was talking x-ray of my teeth. She was sticking a large object in my mouth in these uncomfortable, painful ways. It hurt so much that I was resisting some of the positions. I flat out told her, I didnt want her to take certain angles. She was getting all nerved up while I was just getting fustrated.

I was at work today mopping the floor and this security guy comes walking with a cup and he is trying to avoid the wet floor. I ask him why can't he just walk on it and he said he didn't want to trip and get hurt. Then he asked me if I would feel bad if he got hurt and I said "probably not" he laughed and told me at least I am very honest about it. I said I have out wet floor signs so why would I feel bad about someone getting hurt and he said that is what the signs are for and admitted he wouldn't feel bad either and then I said I would maybe feel bad if I didn't have the signs out and someone tripped and got hurt. Then he asked me if he stopped laughing would I then feel bad and I said "I don't know. It's hard for me to imagine something I have never been in."

Trying to avoid a mob of overly passionate classmates.

Doing the "Aspie stare" thing. I was at lunch with colleagues the other day and the ones in my immediate vicinity started a conversation that I couldn't participate in (parenting, in this case). I tend to get quite bored in such situations, so was just staring out the window. I'm not sure what else you're supposed to do :/.