Published on 12, July, 2020
I recently became aware I may be on the spectrum, and since then have been noticing more signs in different situations. Where I used to find these frustrating, I actually find it quite funny now when I think back to occasions when I have been out of step. Am I alone in finding such things amusing?
For example, yesterday I had an interview and a receptionist was printing out some documents for me, but her computer was running very slowly due to being left on overnight. She was getting more and more frustrated and it reminded me of a research project into ‘computer rage’ I once read about.
My interest piqued, I started to explain the project in depth to the receptionist, before checking myself - it only belatedly occurred to me she probably didn’t want to hear about that at that precise moment!
Anyone else have any funny anecdotes?
Oh gosh, yes!
1) When I was a kid I overheard a line in a romance movie that said something like: "and they looked into each other's eyes and knew then and there that they loved each other." I then spent the next several years avoiding eye contact with everyone at school in case they accidentally thought I was in love with them.
2) A client once asked me to make sure his "name was in lights" on a website. I wasted a whole week trying to animate little blinking lights around his name before I realised he was being figurative.
3) I once tried to comfort someone who got a bleak diagnosis (they're better now!) by 'bunting' them like a cat (bunting: when a cat brushes its head against you), only to misjudge the momentum and basically headbutt them.
This made me laugh out loud!