Is this an Aspie issue?

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The best way to describe it is I'm afraid to speak up.

1) At an auction I went to pay and they said 100+ etc. I said oh ok then (thinking oh my dad must of bid on some stuff) (I should of said NO that's WRONG!) My dad caught me at the checkout and yelled at me etc.

2)At the fair I got a funnel cake and it tasted stale. IMO I was like oh well but my family made me/brother in-law go back up and get a piping fresh hot one.

3) today. I got the 2 Disc Special Edition of Watchmen I WAS supposed to get the 2 Disc Digital Copy version. I didn't I went up and asked to pay the difference (Walmart.com was $15 store was $25) When I went back to my sister she was mad and we went ALL the way back to Customer Service and I got my difference back and my original Special Edition thanking it WAS the Digital Copy version I opened it regardless and it's not so since I didn't get WHAT I ORDERED I'm going to return there tomorrow/Thurs. and get the Digital Copy one that I ORDERED!



So as you can see I suck with money (and yet I balance finances almost daily) also as I said in each instance I didn't speak up about the auction items,bad funnel cake,or gave me the wrong DVD.

Does anyone else have this problem? Sadly I'm so out of touch sometimes it's odd.

All the time. I don't think it's an exclusively aspie issue. I think it goes along more with being shy and not wanting to "stir the pot" so to speak. Also, if the path of resistance leads to a more complicated social interaction, I could see why someone with AS would have a tendency to shy away from that.

When the only reason to talk to someone is because I have to talk to someone to conduct business (i.e. cashier, server, etc), I almost always minimize the conversation as much as possible, even at the expense of an error on their part. If I can buy something online or in a store, I almost always favor online... even if it's less convenient to do so.

I don't like the fact that I do this, really.

I have the opposite problem. What most people would leave alone, I complain about a lot. Once I was in a restaurant at an amusement park (overpriced) and I asked for water. She gave me a tiny tiny cup of water and I asked for a bigger one. She said no, and wouldn't leave until she gave me a bigger cup. I had to get the manager. My argument was that there was no water fountain and I just paid $10 for a tiny personal pizza. The people I was with all said they were embarassed and I should've left it alone. They even said they agreed with my argument, but that I still should've left it alone.