Whats your most recent ASD moment?

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Today was the first day back at work since before Christmas. At one point a coworker walked by and he changed his hairstyle slightly and I did not recognize him. Like, he looked vaguely familiar, but it took me a while to figure out who he was. I don't have major faceblindness issues, but every now and then it can be a problem.

I have two from today:

1. This morning, an acquaintance asked via a social networking site whether it's safe to defrost meat "on the countertop." The initial response I posted: "It should be fine; just stick a plate under it."

I thought about the question again for a moment and realized that maybe she meant "on the countertop" to mean "out of the refrigerator" and replied again for clarification. It turns out that my first instinct was wrong and that she meant it in the less literal "out of the fridge" sense.

2. I went to a pet store tonight to buy some dog food; while there, a man asked if I knew of an emergency veterinary clinic (they had an injured dog). I gave him information on a couple of places then went to pay for the dog food. As I walked away from the checkout counter, I was feeling pretty good about the fact that I thanked the cashier appropriately when the man who I helped a couple minutes earlier thanked me as I walked out. My response: "Thank you!" So yeah. That was embarrassing.

*Warning, brief discussion of feminine issues here*

Yesterday when my mom, my sisters, and I were eating at Steak 'n' Shake, my middle sister asked me if I had any extra pads. I was like, "Any extra pens? You want a pen?" (the restaurant was pretty loud) and my mom was like, "No, a pad!" And I was like, "Oh, a pad! Why didn't you say so? I've got plenty!" And I started to rifle around in my bag, and my mom said with a nervous chuckle, "No, no, go with E to the lady's room - don't give it to her here!!" And I was like, "Oh, okay."

My most recent moment had to do with a driving exam; not the real deal, but a test drive, to know what it will be like.
So outside the car, my usual instructor suddenly pointed at another car and asked "Can you read what's on that number plate?" and I answered back with "yes". Then after a pause, he laughed, and said 'Funny. Now tell me what's on it."
For the test itself, we had to pick up another instructor to observe, and when the new instructor asked the same question, I obliviously answered "yes". And got prompted to share it again.

Forgetting to wear my underwear and wearing my shirt backwards to work. (This happened when I was 40.)

This morning I woke up with an odd feeling of anxiety in my stomach. I thought my boyfriend might have been mad at me about something. Didn't want to find out about it through a text at work and have an anxiety attack and/or cry whilst there, so...called in sick.

I was taking a plane this afternoon, and when we landed, we hit the runway with a huge KER-WHAM! and I was already feeling kind of airsick from the descent, so I hung onto my hoodie for dear life, snuggled it against my face, rocked gently in my seat a little bit, and felt somewhat better. Luckily the two fellows I was sitting between didn't seem to notice.

I threw a 3-second mini-tantrum at someone today who wouldn't get out of my way. I made her cry for a minute.

I had a meltdown from sensory overload yesterday and banged my head against a cinder block wall.

I was looking for something in my house earlier tonight and couldn't find it - I had gone down to the basement twice and was getting frustrated enough to start a little tantrum about it, complete with whining & squealing "I can't take this sh*t I just can't!"

I hate hate hate having to "go hunting" as I put it, in my own house!

Fell asleep at my computer at 11PM Woke up a 3:15 AM. Did I do what a normal person would do and go to my bed to sleep the rest of the night. No. I resumed what I was doing online and now it is 5:50 AM and I'm posting on Wrong Planet.

I'm going through it at the moment. our house is having a new kitchen installed, and there's a constant ruckus of builders. The electric is switched off without warning, and today there's no hot water. It'll be like this for weeks, leaving me stuck upstairs

Someone said they were doing an event and would be handing out vintage sweets. My response was 'why would people want mouldy old sweets?'. They meant vintage as in in old fashioned/traditional.

i dont have moments per say, but there are sometimes when i embarrass myself because of my autism, like when my teacher said "bikes are big in Italy" and i thought they were literally large but when she showed a picture of italian bikes, they looked normal size, and i said "They look the same size to me" and once i realized i felt kinda silly.

but i dont have moments of autism but i do try and hide it and it slips out sometimes , most of the time i dont really notice it and people point it out, like my fascination with sonic or when i cover my ears at the sound of the bus.

I was buying some fruit from a farmer friend at the farmers market. I asked how the end of the season was going for her. She said it was ok, but she would be happy for rain. I misunderstood her meaning and said something about how, Yes, the rain will bring an end to work for awhile, thinking she meant she needed a break from work. But then she made a comment that made it clear she was talking about wanting rain because of the drought. I felt really stupid.