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12 Sep 2012, 11:10 pm

Having to ask my boss if she thinks a guy we know is becoming infatuated with me, because I can't tell (and it would be a bad, bad thing if he was).


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13 Sep 2012, 7:22 am

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My husband asks me to heat him a couple burritos. Then he correct himself and said three. I would have heated him two if he didn't say three and I was thinking of two when he said couple.

Did this tonight with ice cubes she said a couple and thats what she receved then she asked for a couple move and thats what she receved then she asked our son to get her a couple ice cubes he took her five go figure. :oops:

Yep, I would do the same exact thing, because in my mind, "a couple" means "two."


I am NT and I would have done the same. Funny thing is, my boyfriend who has AS thinks a couple means two OR three and a few to him means four or five. To me a couple is two and a few is three. Anything more needs an exact number.



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13 Sep 2012, 7:43 am

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I was at my job and I noticed that the back rest of the chair smelled funny. So I made a remark about it to a co worker and invited her to smell it. She gave me an odd look and then swiftly said, "Let's not think about that right now!"


I would've smelt it and a lively discussion of the possible source of the odor would have ensued. :lol:

My DH's friend from out of town called up last night, needing a place to stay at the last minute. After he got here, I spent the evening wandering from room to room, not knowing whether to try to join their conversation or get out of the way.

The friend was having woman trouble and I didn't know if he felt comfortable talking about it with me around or not, but the living room is really the only comfortable room in our house. The bedroom is too musty because it backs up to the bathroom and our son regularly overflows the bathtub because he's fascinated with water right now. There's nowhere to sit in the kitchen. Our son's room smells like the hippo house at the zoo and he was asleep in there. There are way too many spiders in the other room and too much junk shoved in there. So I feel like a homeless person in my own home.


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13 Sep 2012, 11:39 am

Mindsigh wrote:
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I was at my job and I noticed that the back rest of the chair smelled funny. So I made a remark about it to a co worker and invited her to smell it. She gave me an odd look and then swiftly said, "Let's not think about that right now!"


I would've smelt it and a lively discussion of the possible source of the odor would have ensued. :lol:

That would have been fun! 8)

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My DH's friend from out of town called up last night, needing a place to stay at the last minute. After he got here, I spent the evening wandering from room to room, not knowing whether to try to join their conversation or get out of the way.

The friend was having woman trouble and I didn't know if he felt comfortable talking about it with me around or not, but the living room is really the only comfortable room in our house. The bedroom is too musty because it backs up to the bathroom and our son regularly overflows the bathtub because he's fascinated with water right now. There's nowhere to sit in the kitchen. Our son's room smells like the hippo house at the zoo and he was asleep in there. There are way too many spiders in the other room and too much junk shoved in there. So I feel like a homeless person in my own home.

That is how I would have been, too. I get that way when a repair person has to come to the house.


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13 Sep 2012, 11:49 am

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im in the living room and somebody just knocked on the front door asking for one of the people upstairs and instead of getting it i sat on the couch very quietly, pretending i wasnt there, getting really agitated with my hands over my ears because the sounds hurt a lot. i fail at life.


I used to be exactly like that. I was forced to get over it by my parents. Now I can answer the door when it's during normal hours, even if I'm not expecting someone. It still freaks me out though. And if someone comes knocking after dark, I still tend to hide and let someone else get it. Which at 33, does feel kind of pathetic.


Well, that was well timed. Just about 10 minutes after I posted that, the UPS guy knocked on my door. Scared me half out of my skin. Still not quite calmed down from it. I suppose "get over it" sometimes just means surviving it.

I'll admit it - I hide from door knockers. Often it is an expected package being delivered, but I still can't bring myself to answer the door. Most of the time they will leave it outside anyway. I HATE it when they scare me by knocking, though... :x


I'm a really jumpy person anyway but our doorbell is so loud and it startles me so bad that I scream when it rings :oops: I just need to disconnect the $%&#% thing.


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13 Sep 2012, 6:46 pm

hartzofspace wrote:
Mindsigh wrote:
hartzofspace wrote:
I was at my job and I noticed that the back rest of the chair smelled funny. So I made a remark about it to a co worker and invited her to smell it. She gave me an odd look and then swiftly said, "Let's not think about that right now!"


I would've smelt it and a lively discussion of the possible source of the odor would have ensued. :lol:

That would have been fun! 8)

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My DH's friend from out of town called up last night, needing a place to stay at the last minute. After he got here, I spent the evening wandering from room to room, not knowing whether to try to join their conversation or get out of the way.

The friend was having woman trouble and I didn't know if he felt comfortable talking about it with me around or not, but the living room is really the only comfortable room in our house. The bedroom is too musty because it backs up to the bathroom and our son regularly overflows the bathtub because he's fascinated with water right now. There's nowhere to sit in the kitchen. Our son's room smells like the hippo house at the zoo and he was asleep in there. There are way too many spiders in the other room and too much junk shoved in there. So I feel like a homeless person in my own home.

That is how I would have been, too. I get that way when a repair person has to come to the house.


That was my favorite Seinfeld episode the Funk one 22 min of funk and funk related matters it funkified itself and mutated onto Elaine's hair. It comes a close 2nd to the "took it out" episode I wouldn't mind trying that party trick though I would fear a restraining order :oops:


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15 Sep 2012, 12:11 am

Being told to stop stimming at a friends wedding.


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15 Sep 2012, 12:33 am

getting annoyed because the seat I usually sit on in my lecture hall is at the front of the class - the very front row where students don't normally sit ,only the T.A.'s sit spaced out so there are a lot of empty seats- the row behind it is always full but not that one-so I always have my space- and at the beginning of my last class two students who were late decided to sit either side of me in that front row! One of them kept shaking his leg/wiggling his foot making a squeaky noise every two seconds when his body moved his chair- and the other kid was doing something on her blackberry - which wasn't an annoying noise exactly - but I was getting distracted by the two of them- and I hate squeaking- so I picked up my things, got up and sat down cross-legged by myself at the end of the row- in the middle of the lecture.



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15 Sep 2012, 12:57 am

My latest ASD moment was very ironic. I had just told a friend of mine that I suspected I had AS, and after a moment of debating whether or not the idea was crazy, he said, "Give me your hand." I did, and he took it and said, "Most people with AS hate this." I stared at my hand wondering, "It's just my hand, why would anyone hate it?" It took me several minutes to realise he was talking about being touched, not about people hating my hand!

And another one a few days before the above incident; my psychology class was watching a youtube clip but the instructor forgot to turn down the volume before she played it, so the sound came blasting out and scared the crap out of me. I screamed, banged my leg on the table leg and clapped my hands over my ears; the whole class was staring at me and I felt really stupid. Fortunately my instructor knows about my AS and came by later to apologise for the noise. The next time we were in class I noticed she made a conscious effort to remember to turn down the volume before playing the video.


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15 Sep 2012, 2:45 pm

I tried a new food today and I actually liked it. (I have a real problem with foods.) But I ended up stimming like crazy because I couldn't get the oily texture off of my hands. I won't be having that again. :lol:

Also, a few days ago I went to the doctor. My mom came with me, and we got there early. The person who had an appointment before me "disappeared", so they took me back to a room early...That person showed up again, so the doctor saw them first and there was a long wait. Meaning that I sat in a room with my mom through a 30 minute awkward silence. :lol:



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15 Sep 2012, 3:53 pm

Broke up with my NT boyfriend last night. I have to say it was probably the weirdest breakup to watch.

There's an 11 year age difference. I was his first love, he was my 6th-ish. So I was handling it fairly well, and he was falling apart. I was trying to tell him how it would hurt for a while, then he'd slowly start to feel better, but that he'd probably never really be over me since I was his first. Wasn't being vain, just honest.

Then an amusing thought popped into my head and I said it without thinking. "You know, it feels like this is some morbid version of an older vampire coaching a younger vampire through his death and rebirth." Then he starts laughing and crying at the same time, and told me I both made him feel better, and reminded him he'll probably never find someone quite like me again.

It was a really weird experience.



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15 Sep 2012, 5:14 pm

Stimming so big at a work picnic that my boss (who knows I'm aspie) came over to ask if I was ok.


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15 Sep 2012, 6:57 pm

At work today, A girl that I worked with a few years back (that I was fairly friendly with and knew for a pretty long time) came in and ordered a sandwich. I knew she recognized me. I couldn't convey with non verbal cues that I recognized her, and I didn't know what to say either. She seemed to be waiting for me to say something, but it just got more and more awkward. I made her sandwich and she paid for it. Neither of us ended up acknowledging the fact that we once were friends. Painful.

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15 Sep 2012, 7:50 pm

Today I laughed when a coworker told me he had locked his keys out of his company truck and asked if I knew where the spare set in the office was. I did that because I was not prepared for a conversation at that moment as I was off work and getting into my car to leave for home. He caught me by surprise and my mind went blank. All the little rules I use to govern amicable conversation were MIA when I frantically shuffled around in my brain to find them on short notice. So I laughed. He didn't laugh back. :?

Yesterday, similar to Japan's encounter, there was a person at work who had quit several months ago and returned just now. I recognized her but didn't offer anything in the way of greeting or recognition of her return other than asking her a pointed work related question and sending her off to do something work related. In hindsight I should have said, "hello again (her name), you are back I see, *then something pleasant and small talky...*"



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15 Sep 2012, 9:31 pm

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I'll admit it - I hide from door knockers. Often it is an expected package being delivered, but I still can't bring myself to answer the door. Most of the time they will leave it outside anyway. I HATE it when they scare me by knocking, though... :x


Yeah. On a number of occasions I'll hear them knock, don't answer in hope they'll leave the package or a card telling me where to go pick it up. They leave, no card, no package. Then I get mad at them for not leaving a card. Then get mad at myself for causing this whole thing by not answering in the first place. I have then placed calls to the shipping company to request that they redirect my package to the nearest pickup location so I can go get it there.



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15 Sep 2012, 9:38 pm

I keep trying to tell this story about an obnoxious picture I saw on the internet, but both of my parents seem bewildered by it. I don't get it. I mean, it's kinda weird but the picture's hilarious. I guess it's a "they gotta see it" thing. DAMN I'm not good at this.

I also kinda zoned out a few times at work today. It gets really loud there and kids yell so loud. And one of my coworkers seemed surprised that I didn't remember her without her nametag. Well it's not my fault that most girls look alike. :/


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