Whats your most recent ASD moment?

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Erm ... my most recent ASD moment: link to Worst Meltdown of my Life (summary: completely stressed out totally stimming unable to communicate or activate myself ...).

Although not a commonality of my presentational traits of ASD, I had a scarce experience of over-stimulation that was subsequently triggered by an exceedingly vociferous aircraft. It was somewhat horrendous, needless to say the intensity of that noise surpassed my self-possessed levels of sensory tolerance. I self-stimulated (hand flapping) to overcome my provoked anxiety, which turned out to be very justifiable whilst considering any possible health implications.
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Diagnosed with "Classical" Asperger syndrome in 1998.
AQ: 47/50

I spoke for 45 minutes straight to one person about american politics, the presidential election, and the current state of the american democratic system without letting them get a word in. All they asked was if I saw Clinton's speech last night.

This week, one of my co-workers was in charge of the tools storage from which we have to take our cleaning tools. And another co-worker was also in the storage room, but I wasn't certain which one of them was on that duty.

So I asked him 'Are you on storage duty' and he says 'No, the other guy is'. And I nod, and just keep talking to him about the tools that I need. And the other guy laughs at how I just kept going with the routine without breaking a beat.

But he's a cool guy, so no harm done.

Doing a theatre show - our first rehearsal in the theatre, I became absorbed backstage with rubbing the velvety curtain and almost missed my cue to enter.

I'm job hunting right now. I got called by a recruiter for some positions. I had a case of phone panic. Almost hyperventilated and sounded like a tongue-tied idiot, even to myself. Asked him for a moment, took a couple breaths, and mostly recovered. Finished the phone call without any more babbling anyway.

Luckily I work in the computer industry, and in Seattle, Aspie capitol of the US. He must be used to dealing with people who don't handle phones so well. My sounding like babbling idiot didn't keep him from wanting to present me to potential employers.

The other night I was in someone's car on the way to a Kappa Kappa Psi/Tau Beta Sigma rush at Freebird's, and Taylor Swift's song "You Belong With Me" came on the radio. I started complaining about how she takes a breath right in the middle of a phrase in the chorus ("Can't you see-ee-*gasp*-ee? You belong with me-ee-*gasp*-ee. You belong with me") and how it really bothers me and all. I was like, "Why couldn't she just complete the phrase, make the octave dip a rest, or something?" Someone in the car told me I take the song way too seriously, and that it's just a song. Well, it's kinda hard to listen to a song if there's something as obvious as taking a huge breath in the middle of a phrase, and as a musician, that's something that really bothers me.

rocking a little(was trying to stop it but i couldnt. it was lots more vigorous before) in front of my housemate/comrade. she made a facial expression(it was a small one whose occurance i could debate) i didnt understand but it made me feel a little embarrassed. i should try control myself in front of my comrades a little more or people i know in general but i cant always and sometimes i do not see them coming.

my girlfriend rang me and she was in an ebullient state of mind, and she is in queensland at the moment. one of our few shared interests are airplanes, and after i went through the routine conversation (i ask her the same questions every time i speak to her (and in the same order (she seems to like this))), she mentioned that she was excited to be on a flight back to sydney on monday. to her, the plane trip is the most exciting part of the holiday.

i then went into an excruciatingly arduous monologue about the length of the runway (of her departure airport), and the likely-hood that she would experience increased acceleration on takeoff from that runway, and she was excited (she likes the thrill and the heavy feeling of the sustained thrust (so do i)).

but i started to talk about climb rates and the thrust of the engines and the meteorological forecasts etc, and then i went on to recite an experience where i had seen a 707 jet engine (jt8d) bolted to a pillar and being tested to almost destruction in a paddock near the raaf base at richmond.... and i realized she was getting dopier and dopier during the course of the discussion.

she went from one paragraph answers to one word answers to sleepy grunts in the space of 15 minutes. then she informed me she was very tired and so i let her go, and then i played my game again for about 4 hours, but i am losing interest in it.

I just came back from the supermarket with my boyfriend. And you need to know that I very recently discovered what AS was and that I likely have it, so my boyfriend has been teasing me a lot when I display AS symptoms. It's good natured so I don't mind and we have fun laughing at my little quirks together.

Anyway I picked up a plastic cordial bottle and while walking towards him, I noticed a small dent on the bottle so I showed him and said, "This has a ding in it! I need to get another bottle!"

So I went back to the shelf, got a new bottle, and he said, "Was that your Asperger showing?"

It was another friendly teasing but I was slightly taken aback because I always thought wanting non-faulty products is usual practice but now I don't know. Was that me being aspie or OCD or was it really nothing?

Just watched Rain Man with my boyfriend. It was kind of odd to be on the outside looking in for some of those moments. Now I know what it looks like when I get distracted by something mid conversation, or start staring at something pretty. And what it's like for others when I'm lost in my own world and not hearing what people say around me.

Having a foot-slamming autistic meltdown because of the noise from the new people in the apartment below me!! !

I was at the mall with my husband and I was trying out the foot massager in a store. A store employee asks me if anyone has told me that my son is cute. I told her "Not today." My husband just laughed.

Am new to WP and was just in the IRC room and people were talking about how they liked to troll truckers on CB radios. I can't understand how that is funny or a good idea. I would hate it someone went out of their way every day to make my job more difficult and I can't see how I'd enjoy doing it to someone else. This is apparently normal though?