"Please" and "Thank You"

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Sometimes I still have to be reminded to say please and thank you, like a child. Is this normal for aspies?

seems like it, because I get reminded all the time

I don't know, but I use them to excess.

Most of the time I can understand why, but Mum thinks you should say, "What time is it, PLEASE?" instead of just "What time is it?" However, I think that is a question as opposed to a request, so please is unnecessary.

Please? Thank you? What's that? Just gimme the !@#$% cheeseburger already!

So, OK. It seems really strange, how I also fail to sometimes think about the etiquette things. One of the problems is with judging when the etiquette items might be interpreted as a sign of weakness or interpreted the opposite of their literal meaning. For example, saying the food is good while at a high-end restaurant. (Of course the food is good! Where you expecting otherwise?)

What about telling people that you really aren't trying to be pedantic or what you have to say isn't intended for interpersonal politics? That primes people to look for the exact opposite of what you intend, and they lean right into it. I am reluctant to give excess compliments etc. just because there are so many second and third meanings that are difficult to control for.

My sister would insist that should I ask for something, then a "Thank you" is in order before that is handed to me. I go on the basis of it being done and gratifying the action immediately after.

It seems to me people don't use them anymore

Saying thanks when buying something seems completely pointless to me. Shouldn't the money be thanks enough?
Anyway, I think my usage of please and thanks is very uneven. So is my usage of things like "hello". I seem to say them both too often and not enough. Which I guess just means I tend to say them at the wrong times.
Come to think of it, my usage of "please" is very low, mostly because I have trouble asking for things at all. If I can't do it myself, I tend to just let it be, for some reason.

I was reminded in high school and now it's a lot less. I try to remember to say them.

When I was a kid and teen I used to have to get reminded all the time to say "please" or "thank you". I thought it was pretty pointless and that no one should care one way or the other (for the record I also wasn't a kid who addressed adults as "ma'am" or "sir"). Then around my late teens I changed and started using them often when I realized that doing so would probably make getting good service from people easier. Now I end up using both words reflexively and probably way too often (pretty much the way j0sh described). Sometimes I'll even get annoyed at myself when I think "why the hell did I just say "thanks" for someone taking my money?". But whatever, I live in the South so that sort of thing is almost the norm.

Yes when I was a kid I was reminded about saying please and thankyou and got in trouble for being ungrateful. Even as an adult I have got in trouble for talking rude to people when I havn't noticed I have. I just think it is thier own problem if they have taken me the wrong way.

I also use "please" and "thank you" in excess. I think that's why I "flew under the radar" in school. I was polite and obeyed the rules so teachers didn't really notice my other behavior.

I tend to use it too much... my son is not even 5 and he has been programmed with using it too, definitely more than any other kid his age!