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I met a girl who worked as part of the tech crew for the theatre department at my former university. After the usual "What's your name / what do you study / oh that's interesting / how do you know my other friend." part of the conversation, I asked her if she had worked one of the evening lectures at the giant university theatre complex. She told me, "No. What was this lecture?"

Well.... 5 minutes later, I get done relieving my night of the-awesome-nerdy-lecture (as it encompassed several of my special interests all at once) and her response after a pause: "Oh. That's really interesting." Luckily she was still cool with me joining our group of friends for lunch & then I made sure to talk about normal stuff

i have done hundreds of embarrassing things, but one incident from my childhood stands out. when i was about 5 years old, i drew a picture. my mom thought that it was pretty and would make a nice decoration. so, she handed me a roll of scotch tape and said "here, take this tape and put it in the window." i took the roll of tape and set it on the windowsill, and then wondered why in the world she had told me to do that

On my last wedding anniversary, my husband took me to a restaurant and gave me a really nice-looking and rather expensive piece of jewellery - the type that comes with a certificate.
So I opened the box where the thingie was, reached directly past it, grabbed the certificate and spent the next quarter of an hour correcting the typos and stylistic errors in it. Luckily, the man has a sense of humour so he joined me in the laughter over 'for best results do not take your jewlery in the beth' and wondered aloud with me if it was OK to wear it just for a quick shower.

Only after I was finished with the certificate I actually took a look at what he actually gave me. I am sure that any regular male would have been offended to the core though.

I had plenty of Aspie moments. I remember in 7th grade, I had a crush on this one girl. Her friends found out and they asked me the question "do you like her"? Even though My dad told me I should answer "just friends", because of my honesty I said yes. The next day her friends told her and she said no and walked away. She even was a bit embarrassed and I was left off confused. Now I know what to do in a situation like this. Sort of .

i started a tender love poem with the line, "You swallowed my come," & read it at an open mike while my girlfriend was there.

won't be in my Collected Poems, i think.

Back when I was a kid I always took "what's up" literal. I remember one day in middle school I was out on the playground and these girls walk up to me and asked me "whats up" and I say "nothing" because there was nothing but the sky and they ask me it again and I said the sky and then ask me again and I figure I was supposed to guess so I answer buildings or top of the buildings and the trees and the birds as they kept asking me. Then finally one of them said to the other girls I don't know what it means so finally they explained to me what "whats up" meant. I finally tell them I was answering their question.

Then I remember coming home from school that day and I tell my mother that story and she said "No wonder you always looked up every time I would ask you it."

She obviously never figured it out until that time.

So after that incident, I finally understood the weird facial expressions these two girls had in The Amanda Show in the Meet the Literals skit. They asked Amanda Bynes who was playing the girl named Leslie. "Hey what's up?" and she looks up and says "Oh just a beautiful beautiful ceiling" and the girls got these weird looks on their faces. I couldn't figure out why they were doing that, now I know why.

Back in September, I attended the annual, local Renaissance faire with a friend of mine. At the faire, I (almost literally) ran into my older cousin. Of course, my face-blindness kicked in and I did not recognize her until it was too late. When I returned home, my mother informed me that my aunt had called her about the incident, calling me rude.

I was at the adult gathering, the one that folded, and we were all at this pizza place and I was talking about this man who also ran the other group and then I heard he met someone and moved and now he doesn't do it anymore. And I was talking to this man who was there and towards the end I realized he was the man I was talking about. I just didn't recognize him because he had shaved his long beard and cut his hair short and he sure looked younger than older. Someone had to say his name before I could realize it was him. It was something I laughed about and I asked why didn't he tell me it was him and he said it was because he was seeing how long it take me to recognize him.

im not diagnosed, just very, very suspicious

i have to be really careful i dont re-introduce myself to casual acquaintances

i just had bit of a moment then too, someone called and was talking about the weather and said it was sunny and 32 degrees in melbourne (australia) and he was out sunbaking

i was like "yeah? wow"

well it's never really all that warm in melbourne, especially not when it's quite cool and most of the state is expecting rain.

another time i went home to visit the parents, and left the headlights on in car, draining the battery. dad went out and roll started it and took it for drive, parked it and left the engine running

told me to remind him to turn it off, or i'd have no fuel left.

later i remembered, was horrified (i had uni in the morning) and told him i forgot. in complete seriousness he played along telling me it would be out of fuel. i was making plans to get a lift to town (17kms) to get fuel.

Yeah i believed him. Eventually he told me he turned it off hours ago.

my OH's mum told me she found a flea on the dog, yeah i believed her (said dog is small, clean and lives inside, if she had fleas, we'd know) turns out she was joking

Back in grade eight (the first year of secondary schooling), some kids in my school form were quite angry at me, as they thought I was accusing them of taking drugs. You see, earlier that year, the state government distributed a drug & alcohol information pack to every home (along with the introduction of severe penalties for drug offences). This publication pointed out that tobacco and alcohol are technically also drugs, and these kids had been smoking (tobacco), hence I referred to them as "taking drugs", overlooking the likelihood of such talk being interpreted as implying the use of illegal drugs.

I remember bursting into tears at the age of about six when i returned home to a brand-new gas fire. my mother could have warned me of such as change! never got the chance to say goodbye to the old one

I was outside waiting for the bus. I didn't want to tell my mom I missed the bus because I was afraid she would get mad at me. I instead decided I would find my school by instinct and walked all the way to the elementary school and back. When I got back home my mom had called the cops.

when I was in elementary school during reading time we were sitting around tallking about words that sound the same but have different meaning and the said duck to me and I was looking for a duck and I got hit in the head with a chalkboard eraser-they were telling me to duck down and not telling me there was a duck(bird) somewhere.

I remember when I was seven or eight, we go to the pumpkin patch but instead my parents for some reason decided to go to the one in Oregon City than the one on Sauvie's Island we always went to so I got upset and didn't like the new route they were taking and when they said we were going to a different one. But by the time we got there, I saw how much more fun the place is and better than the other one we went to, I wanted to go back to that one so we did every year.