Whats your most recent ASD moment?

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I felt terribly out of place at a family get-toghether today. I was quiet and withdrawn most of the time. My brother at one point openly mocked my rather formal turns of phrase. Sigh.

I'm half an hour too early for an appointment again, because I couldn't remember at what time I was supposed to be here. Not that this hasn't happened before. Most embarrassing incidence was being a whole day too early for a birthday party... My friend was cleaning, but took it in stride and invited me in. I felt so bad for her (she even questioned whether she had made a mistake in the invitation). It sucks. I have to remember to write down things (although even that strategy is not foolproof).

this afternoon, i was ringing my customers to get their orders for tomorrow.
the telephone of one of the shops that i rang was answered by someone who did not know what i was talking about. i told her my name and said i supplied their chips and pumpkin and onions etc, and she thought i was a customer ringing up with an order.

me: good afternoon, it's mark from ******** (my business name). i'm just ringing to get your order for tomorrow.
her: ahhhhh.. you want to order for tomorrow?
me: no. you order from me (she had a very thick accent)
her: wahh? you want to make order?
me: no i don't want to buy anything from you. you buy from me.
her: oh??!?.
me: actually, can i talk to.......errrrr hmmm..sorry i forget her name. (this is the beginning of the problem)
her: ahhh who?!?!?
me: errr "daphne"?
her: sorry no one here called "daphne".
me: uhmmm "cynthia" ?
her: ahhh no sorry you must have the wrong number.
me: i want to talk to the "boss woman" thanks! (i have a mental block that prevents me from remembering her name for some reason)

her: ok please hold.

then the boss woman answered and said hello ???????? speaking (i thought "of course"! ! i remember your name now", but i have since forgotten it again).
she asked me why i had forgotten her name and i pointed out that i usually remember peoples names if those people have some facet about them that stands out to me, and she rattled out the orders for tomorrow and i said goodbye.

it was a difficult situation to negotiate my way through.

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That happens to me. I have this hearing problem without a name(nothing wrong with my ear though) that prevents me to make out what people are trying to say. The harder I try the less I comprehend. Especially so when there's noise outside, which is the reason I hate rain. Is it just me? Is this your reason?

I lost track of the drive home reading street signs!

Just fled to my bedroom. Partner and roommate were laughing at stuff. The problem is, I can't tell laughing from crying. It started freaking me out, despite the earplugs, so I fled and here I am in bed with a fan for white noise, earplugs, and laptop. Woo...

Was cashing out my money at the end of my shift tonight and could not figure out if I had taken a $20 bill out of the register yet to replace the $20 in smaller bills I had put in. Yes, my short term memory is really that bad.

i teach at a language school. an admistrative assistant came into my classroom last week and completely blanking me out started calling out my students' names to give out some forms. i could feel my blood boil and by the time she got to the second person i approached her and told her using a firm voice that i would take the forms and distribute them after the lesson, and asked her to leave as she was interrupting my class. later on my extremely rude behaviour was brought up at a staff meeting and i was criticised for taking out my frustration on poor assistants who were only doing their job. sometimes i focus on delivering the message so much that i forget to wrap it up nicely for the people to feel important/appreciated/respected. doh!

I'm sitting in a work meeting right now where we are having a touchy feely training on how to communicate. I tried to leave and hide in my office downstairs, but my boss came down and told me HAVE to be here, even though I'm flipping out.

For some reason, I can't really think of any recent ones at the moment (though I'm sure there are more than just a few) but I do have an amusing one to share from when I was in high school. My mom loves to tell this story to people she works with... And to think I didn't find out I had Asperger's until this year... It seems so incredibly obvious now...

Anyway, I was in my high school Latin Club and we went on a trip to Italy during the summer break. So while in an airport, a worker comes up and randomly asks me, "Is this your luggage?" And I say, "Yes, it is." But I pause, realizing that my answer isn't entirely accurate. So I say, "Well, no, technically, it ISN'T my luggage... I don't have any luggage so my parents lent this suitcase to me for this trip... So, yes, it is my luggage for the purposes of this trip but technically, this actually isn't my luggage because my parents let me borrow theirs. It belongs to them, not me."

The poor woman was so confused, especially since she didn't speak very much English and I was probably talking really fast since I was nervous and attempting to explain. She asked me again if it was my luggage or not and I tried to explain again, but she still didn't understand. So I ended up spending 10 minutes trying to get her to understand by saying over and over, "Yes, this IS my luggage for the trip, but no, it ISN'T actually my luggage since my parents lent it to me because I don't have any luggage of my own." Finally, I guess she either gave up and let me go or did actually understand what I was getting at (I still haven't figured it out to this day) and I was able to make my flight just in time.

I was just worried about making my flight since I almost missed it, but I hadn't realized why she asked that question. When I got back, I asked my parents when I got back why on Earth she would ask that and as it turns out, the reason was because after 9/11, they wanted to make sure you didn't accept someone else's luggage that might have bombs in it or something. I could've been arrested, detained, or something had that woman not understood or thought my luggage was a threat to others in the airport! Oops! So much for literal thinking.

Awkwarrrrrrrd.

I just got a surprise call from a financial company that's handling my pension with the company I used to work with. Apparently they sent me a package like a month ago and I was supposed to respond to it. My spouse handles all our mail, bills and financial stuff because I SUCK at that stuff, so I don't remember receiving anything.

This guy wanted to go over the options on the phone right away and I know that if I'm not looking at a sheet of paper with the information on it while he's explaining it, it's not going to make any sense to me because I'm severely hyperlexic and my aural comprehension is s**t, so I'm going to sound like an idiot and make the wrong choice (assuming I even understand his question!). Plus he called my cell phone for some reason, so in addition to being surprised, confused and clueless, I was physically uncomfortable holding the phone.

Also, he kept calling me by my first name and I HATE that because only my mother calls me that and I can't stand it when people I don't know do that as if we're good buddies. I think it's so invasive and rude, but I know from experience that if I ask people not to do that they look at me like I have bugs crawling out of my ears and they think I'm the one who's being rude. Whatever happened to addressing people by their title and last name during formal business proceedings? Especially people you don't know. It's only respectful!

And what am I going to do? Tell this guy, "Hey man I'm hyperlexic so nothing you're saying makes sense; you're going to have to re-send that package."? He's never going to have heard of hyperlexia and he's going to think I'm nuts.

So I asked him to call me back on a different number tomorrow. Hopefully I can find the package they sent.

So awkward. I feel like an alien.

Hmm, Several small things at an employee meeting/training session thing at work. They had noisemakers like a party! Heck, I thought it was going to be a party! God that was awful, I had to grip my chair & endure it. Of course, attendance was mandatory! Worse, they had us do play acting.
I did not do very well.
And my post-it notes they wanted proved unreadable. LOL

Sincerely,
Matthew

I don't always get my boyfriend's jokes. This is a recent online conversation with him.

Thea
So what are these jokes I take seriously?

Conrad
Well I said
'Why did the chicken cross the road?' And your answer was, 'a chicken would not cross a road knowingly, that is to say it would not consciously decide to walk from one side of the road in order to achieve or fulfill a purpose. The chicken would simply walk and by coincidence it would cross a road and so be perceived to be crossing it with a goal or object in mind. Your question is therefore absurd.'

Thea
Hahahahaha
What else?

Conrad
I also said, 'you must be Jamaican, 'cause Jamaican me crazy', and your response was, 'the idea that people of Jamaican origin are inherently capable of inducing mental illness in other people is an absurd and ludicrous stereotype with no scientific foundation and which is most likely derived from a personal prejudice relating to a pre-existing bad experience with a particular person of Jamaican origin'.

(And this was when the Batman movie shooting happened)

Conrad
Sorry, just got back from a screening of Batman
Had some things to take care of

Thea
OK

Conrad


Thea
How was it?
What's the wink for?

Conrad
Nothing
nvm

*snort* Thea, that was pretty funny