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?
Haha these are all hilarious!! Ok so I have a kind of reverse situation one to share. My dad never likes to directly ask to use the loo when we’re visiting people, so he always uses some kind of euphemism. Well once we visited friends and he asked ‘Where is the cloakroom’; they helpfully said ‘Oh just put your coat over here.’ He tried to explain ‘But I need to *wash my hands”, and they were like ‘Oh the sink is in the kitchen this way’. So finally he had to ask where the loo was. It cracked me up so much.