winslow
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: 1 Jul 2011
Age: 54
Gender: Male
Posts: 72
Location: Orange County, CA
15 Sep 2011, 1:25 pm
15 Sep 2011, 9:01 pm
Use the line "have a good one" especially if you then turn around and do everything in your power to ensure that this does not happen. I just hate this line and at one time was considering a separate post about this. Have a good what? Does this have a double meaning with some kind of sexual connotation? Is this line only used by cowards who lack the guts to say what they really mean? There is a song by the Moody Blues called "Say what you mean" with the line in it that goes "Say what you mean, mean what you say" that seems to especially apply here.
They mean to have a good day.
CozPoz2802
Snowy Owl
Joined: 8 Mar 2011
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Posts: 149
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK, Europe, Earth
16 Sep 2011, 4:15 am
16 Sep 2011, 10:03 am
16 Sep 2011, 2:02 pm
22 Sep 2011, 10:19 am
It's going to take me some time to get through the thread, and I need to post these while they are still fresh in my mind:
--- Ask "Whatcha readin'?"
(I understand you are just trying to make small talk, but you don't really care what I'm reading and it should be a signal that I would like not to be disturbed.)
--- Ask "You ready to go?" when you have finally finished your business, when I have been fidgeting for the last 15 minutes, desperate to get out of there.
--- Suddenly change a familiar web page or application layout. (Facebook, Netflix, and Windows Office, I'm looking at you!)
--- Have an animated ad on a website for ASPIES.
(I have an animated gif as an avatar on another forum, and I try not to make it too distracting)
--- At a company training seminar, start the lab portion by saying "OK, break up into groups" without assigning any division of personnel whatsoever. (This was my most hated phrase to hear in the last job I worked. Except for "You're laid off".)
22 Sep 2011, 10:54 am
DragonKazooie89
Deinonychus
Joined: 12 May 2008
Age: 35
Gender: Female
Posts: 391
Location: Northern Utah
22 Sep 2011, 2:32 pm
22 Sep 2011, 2:45 pm
22 Sep 2011, 5:17 pm
22 Sep 2011, 5:53 pm
22 Sep 2011, 7:05 pm
Also, when I ask you to repeat your sorry self, whisper it again. Obviously I can't hear you because you're whispering; don't make me come within an inch of strangling you.
Gah! Just talk in a normal volume already!
> I've seen numerous comedy routines that have this exact premise.
### find humor in other's actual dis/uncomfort ( I dont ! , well.... sometimes
)
### talk away from you and then quieter so you cant hear
### by having a "by subject matter " list of "Ways to upset an Aspie" and not shared it
23 Sep 2011, 8:41 am
23 Sep 2011, 11:17 am
m3theatrix
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: 13 Sep 2011
Age: 52
Gender: Female
Posts: 25
Location: Tenth Circle of Hell
23 Sep 2011, 7:52 pm
But that's become my standard answer for every situation anymore!!
m3theatrix
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: 13 Sep 2011
Age: 52
Gender: Female
Posts: 25
Location: Tenth Circle of Hell
23 Sep 2011, 8:41 pm
Insist that a certain spoon that keeps ending up in the dishwasher that looks EXACTLY like ALL of your other ones is, in fact, not yours at all. Keep putting it into the aspie's silverware drawer instead.
I'd start throwing those spoons that "appeared" in my silverware drawer away... bet it wouldn't be long before spoons stopped "appearing" in my silverware drawer...
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