Autism on 60 Minutes Show tonight

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I'm a really good driver.

"Waking the Dead" finished.
I'm definitely losing this race.
(I was thinking of escalating to "I can astral travel faster than you", but that just sounds petty.)
Also, sorry to be so slow, but you have a very nice accretion disk.
(I have very selective awareness. My eyes had been registering it as a woodpecker, or some such)

Yes if there's a real cure I want it. I hate being alone all my life being harrassed constantly and looking like a stupid moron in public being unable to sustain eye contact.

Which reminds me of the one lesson I've learned from this crazy life of mine: happily ever after doesn't exist for anyone, especially for those of us with Asperger's. We were born in an unusual way, with unusual traits. Like it or not, we're never going to fit into the so-called normal world. (Sometimes I wonder why anyone would want to.)
You can deny this fact of life all you want. You can pretend it doesn't hold true for you or your child. But sooner or later, you'll have to accept it. And, the funny thing is, once you do that, something magical happens deep inside you. You start to accept who it is you really are. And you forge a friendship with the most special, wonderful person you can ever meet---yourself.

While spinner movement is fascinating I admit have you considered when you zone out like that it is a form of seizure activity? Absense seizures aren't always a threat to the person or others, but maybe it causes you to twitch or something and the person that asked if you were alright might have witnessed more than just a person staring at a spinner. So it might have looked like you needed rescuing. Maybe they have a family member with seizures or autistism and they thought they saw someone in trouble. Don't get mad at them for caring enough to ask a fellow human being if they were alright. You can always recreate the spinner moment in the privacy of your own home or garden. Get one of those whirly-gig spinner things on a stick that are made to stick in the garden and sit and contemplate that privately. Then you can spend as much time uninterrupted as you want.

I got harrassed at the grocery store the other day. Still not sure why. There was 4 self-checkout lines and I stood in one opposite this guy who was in another line. I didn't say a word I was minding my own business. I was staring on my left side (he was on my right) at a display of beanie animals. I think I was grinning because they had a tiny stuffed walrus with super long stuffed tusks. I thought that was cute how they made one with these tusks that were long gigantic long incisers. Then all of a sudden he screamed at me "I am ahead of you in line". I looked at him probably like he was crazy and said "how can you be ahead of me, I'm in one line, you're in another line, we aren't in the same line." Then he started screaming "can't we have some democracy here? "Can't you show some democracy?". I don't know what the heck he even meant by that. I saw he was prone to violent and he had a bottle of booze in his basket so I said "Go ahead and go next, I don't care, just go next if you want too." He ended up going over to the third self-check lane not even getting in front of me. The person in my lane finished up her checkout and even though I had more stuff than the a$$hole guy I checked out faster than him. I went to customer service and asked for an escort to the car because I was afraid he might be crazy enough to wait outside to jump me. The customer service girl had witnessed his behavior so she had two people walk me to my car. I still don't understand what he was mad at me about. I did nothing to him. I was in a different line spaced out looking at the stuffed walrus.