What is the asperger or HFA thought process...

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In the following situations what is your thought process about the situation and what are you likely to do?

1.) Your sitting at your desk next to a girl at work that you find pretty, you have talked to her twice before at lunch and found out some information but have yet to speak with her today within the hour that you've been worked or any other time while being located at your work desk.

2.) Your in a shopping center and have already gotten everything in your cart. Now comes the hard part checking out, you can see there is are alot of registers and they are all moving very quickly but there are empty self check out stands at the very end of the store.

3.) You come home your empty house after work, today went pretty much as planned though you are still running it all through your head. After eating dinner you have some time to kill before you are to go to bed and start the day over again.

4.) Your in grid lock traffic, cars as far as the eye can see and there is no likely speedy way out of this. It's pouring rain and you are on your way to the DMV to renew your license which is to expire in a couple days but they close in a hour so you don't know if you will make it in time. (The traffic was unavoidable- you left a half hour earlier than most would incase there was traffic but it still wasn't enough)

Just wondering how an aspie would think/react in these different situations.

1. Either ignore her or badger her to teach me more about the lab methods I'm supposed to be learning. Which is exactly what I do every day, as most of my co-workers are in fact pretty girls. (Two are boys, but both are more handsome than pretty. Then again, I've yet to see a healthy human being that I don't find beautiful in some way or another.)

2. Self-check. Obviously. But it's never empty at my supermarket; most people like to check out their own groceries here. I prefer to do things for myself.

3. Either read, organize my collection of facts from my favorite stories, or hang out on Internet forums.

4. Get bored, daydream, and not notice when traffic starts moving again until people start honking at me. But I'm unlikely to be in a car as-is; I don't own one, and when I did, I used to walk to the DMV, which was only two miles away, an easy walk even in the rain. There's no good reason to get out the car for only two miles, unless you've got a sprained ankle or something.

1.) Your sitting at your desk next to a girl at work that you find pretty, you have talked to her twice before at lunch and found out some information but have yet to speak with her today within the hour that you've been worked or any other time while being located at your work desk.

What's a good reason to go over there and talk to her? What should I say? Is it really a good idea to date a coworker?


2.) Your in a shopping center and have already gotten everything in your cart. Now comes the hard part checking out, you can see there is are alot of registers and they are all moving very quickly but there are empty self check out stands at the very end of the store.

If I am socially drained for the day, I will most likely use the self-checkouts.


3.) You come home your empty house after work, today went pretty much as planned though you are still running it all through your head. After eating dinner you have some time to kill before you are to go to bed and start the day over again.

Anything good on TV? Anything I wanted to do online? Maybe I can just go to Pandora and find something new and interesting.


4.) Your in grid lock traffic, cars as far as the eye can see and there is no likely speedy way out of this. It's pouring rain and you are on your way to the DMV to renew your license which is to expire in a couple days but they close in a hour so you don't know if you will make it in time. (The traffic was unavoidable- you left a half hour earlier than most would incase there was traffic but it still wasn't enough)

Try to reach my destination, but give up if it looks too unlikely.

hmm...ya sounds like these are bad questions =(

what are some situations where an aspie would do something really different than an nt...

or is it just an overall difference, not an individual decision thing? hmm...

Since I don't work or shop for myself, I have no idea.

I'm afraid that as an Aspie, that question is too compound to answer . But beyond that, I try to accept things for what they are.

(1) is N/A, as I'm married and work at home (farmer). (2); I'll go to the checker who looks the least talkative; maybe a 60-something foreign person. Even if it's a longer line. (3) I never have time to kill before bed. I'm pooped by the end of the day, and any excess time is spent as early sleep. (4) Happens to me all the time, but it's too unpredictable to evade many times. I just go with the flow, and I think logically whether I should abandon ship and try again another day. If it were your example of the expiring license, I'd probably not have waited til the last day, as I know how I am with luck in traffic and deadlines. If I managed to fail to get there on expiry day, I'd probably go the next day and risk a ticket, rather than to work myself to a nervous attack trying to beat the clock.

Charles

1.) You're sitting at your desk next to a girl at work that you find pretty. You have talked to her twice before at lunch and found out some information, but have yet to speak with her today within the hour that you've been working or any other time while being located at your work desk.
I'd be too shy to try talking to her more, so I'd have to figure out how to impress her and make her want to talk to ME. I would have to prepare myself for the possibility that she'll never talk to me and I won't get to know her.

2.) You're in a shopping center and have already gotten everything in your cart. Now comes the hard part: checking out. You can see there are are a lot of registers and they are all moving very quickly, but there are empty self check out stands at the very end of the store.
I love self checkout. It's like Tetris, stacking everything in those square paper bags, and you don't have to talk to anyone. I'd go there first.

3.) You come home to your empty house after work. Today went pretty much as planned, though you are still running it all through your head. After eating dinner you have some time to kill before you are to go to bed and start the day over again.
I have things I should be doing, but instead I'll probably play on the computer, read a book, or go outside and work on the yard. Easy things that feel like accomplishments but are really just for fun. XD;

4.) You're in grid lock traffic, cars as far as the eye can see and there is no likely speedy way out of this. It's pouring rain and you are on your way to the DMV to renew your license which is to expire in a couple days, but they close in a hour so you don't know if you will make it in time. (The traffic was unavoidable- you left a half hour earlier than most would incase there was traffic but it still wasn't enough)
I'm already on the road, so I might as well try to finish. Traveling somewhere I'm told I need to go always seems way easier than making decisions myself, so I won't change my plans. But I will prepare myself not to be upset if I don't get there in time. (Maybe I'll get go get some good food instead so the trip isn't a waste.) Then I'll try again as soon as I can.