Don't Realize My Own Behavior

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17 Dec 2010, 7:22 pm

Okay, here I thought I was maybe finally getting over being weirdo, and that maybe I got enough social training to be normal. And then I realized by replying to all these threads. That well...I'm a weirdo still.

Anyone ever have those moments? Where they don't realize their own behavior in the real world and then when you really think about it, you go...oh wait...nevermind?

Like I realized I have a real problem with being uncomfortable in public places. I'm uneasy and will do the pacing dance until I give up and just leave. This includes eating by myself, going to stores by myself, movies, etc.

See, I had thought oh I don't have a problem with pacing any more. And then really studying my day I was like....oh...well...wait nevermind.

Anyone else have this moments? Where you think you're doing normal and you're okay? Then you think about it and have an "oh s**t moment"

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17 Dec 2010, 7:29 pm

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Yes definitely. One moment you see something (or someone mentions something) and you think "I don't do that", and then you think a little more and you realise "oh sh** yeah I do that".

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17 Dec 2010, 7:42 pm

Shadi2 wrote:

Yes definitely. One moment you see something (or someone mentions something) and you think "I don't do that", and then you think a little more and you realise "oh sh** yeah I do that".

lool.

It really is an oh s**t moment. Here you're living your perfectly normal life to realize the whole world is probably think you just escaped a loony bin.

Especially me, I'm a talker. I talk to myself in public.

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17 Dec 2010, 8:09 pm

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Shadi2 wrote:

Yes definitely. One moment you see something (or someone mentions something) and you think "I don't do that", and then you think a little more and you realise "oh sh** yeah I do that".

lool.

It really is an oh sh** moment. Here you're living your perfectly normal life to realize the whole world is probably think you just escaped a loony bin.

Especially me, I'm a talker. I talk to myself in public.

Yes, I do that too, at home I talk to myself often, in public I try not to but sometimes it just "slips" lol. Even worse if I'm reading (I used to take the bus to go to work and I usually was reading on the way home and to work), either laugh or make a comment on the book (p.s. people still look at you funny when it happens lol).

I keep telling myself I need to stop "thinking" out loud.

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17 Dec 2010, 8:11 pm

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I know right.

I do try not to talk to myself. Just ends up happening when I have a lot of task and things on my mind. I start talking out my day.

If anyone was really paying attention enough, I'm sure I'd be an easy target for a stalker. lool.

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17 Dec 2010, 8:23 pm

Every time I get through a day and think "Oh, didn't talk to anyone again today..."

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17 Dec 2010, 8:46 pm

When I was younger, I was either too shy or because I didnt have a clue what to say would keep quiet in company.

Now Iam much older, and have the confidence to talk and join in, Iam realising that maybe I was better off when I was quite because now people can see how weird Iam, its only when I look at myself afterwards and compare it to how otherpeople act and talk that I see it for myself and would cringe if I saw somebody else behaving in the way I dont see myself behaving.

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17 Dec 2010, 8:53 pm

Nambo wrote:

lool.

Same here.

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17 Dec 2010, 9:13 pm

Those moments that are either really awkward or really funny...

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17 Dec 2010, 9:27 pm

Pandora_Box wrote:

Anyone else have this moments? Where you think you're doing normal and you're okay? Then you think about it and have an "oh sh** moment"

I've been lurking here for a few weeks now, and this has happened to me so many times it's almost commonplace now. Thankfully mostly in private. Because I hardly ever go out.

I talk to myself all the time, especially when I have a lot on my mind. Once when I caught myself doing it, I tried to stop and failed.

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17 Dec 2010, 10:03 pm

EMBRACE THE WEIRD!

I gave up a long time ago. I moderate my weirdness for public consumption. But I don't try to be normal.

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17 Dec 2010, 10:08 pm

I've been having those moments on WP a lot. Until June of this year, I had no idea what AS actually was, or that it might apply to me. There have been many threads on here that I've read and thought, "Wow. I do that all. the. time. I had no idea it was unusual." Or, "Wow. I never do that. Maybe I'm wrong to think I'm an Aspie. Oh, wait. Actually, I do do that. A lot. "

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17 Dec 2010, 10:19 pm

another_1 wrote:

Same here. hahahaa

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17 Dec 2010, 10:34 pm

Yes, I can definitely relate to this thread. In fact, I find it hard to be "myself" around NTs because I'm afraid of saying/doing something cringeworthy. Kinda interesting how we can see something is inappropriate if someone else does it, but not If we do it ourselves.

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17 Dec 2010, 11:18 pm

wblastyn wrote:

I think its just that its so natural for us. That when we actually think about it in context, we realize oh dear...that's not socially acceptable.

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17 Dec 2010, 11:30 pm

What the hell people. If others around you attempt to govern your natural behavior to to hell with them. I say be yourself and if folks don't like that stick your tong at them.

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