My five-minute reign of terror

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I've been dealing with difficult situations everyday in a professional role for years and still have difficulties knowing how to handle some of these situations, as do my NT coworkers; sometimes you just have to acknowledge this stuff is hard for everyone and give yourself a pat on the back for trying.

reminds me of when a friend came back to uni after a year out from cancer treatment:
- completely walked past her until she called me back. she was self conscious and probably thought she looked unrecognisable or something, really it was just me looking at the floor as usual
-gave her hug, nice to see you etc etc, (well done me...)
-asked her about a petty incident that had been going on last time i saw her (before cancer) because it was all i could think of off the top of my head, she brushed it off and said something like 'life's too short, i have bigger things to worry about now'. doh.
-said her hair looked nice like that and that she can carry it off because she's pretty and i never could (shut up brain). she replied that she hoped i never had to. cringe

The interaction as a whole probably wasn't that bad and i did lots of things okay too, but the bits that stick out and make me wince upon memory are the bad bits. She on the other hand probably remembers nothing of it