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Socially awkward

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Now I'm getting older I realise sometimes where I've gone wrong with interactions. Not always but sometimes. Would you say this is an autism thing to do? (Still undiagnosed and working out why I dont fit in)

So this is how my brain works.....I'm in the Fuchsia bush looking at giant caterpillars (I know so cool Joy). Spot a neighbour, forget I'm hanging out in the bush say 'hi how you doing ' hes chatting about exciting news as he and his wife have just had a baby.then I think oh he will wonder why I'm hiding in a bush See no evil so explain myself and hold up a giant catterpilar mid conversation then chat about caterpillars! JoySee no evil it's only after when i replay conversations over in my mind I sometimes realise what a socially awkward person I am 

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  • Oh, this has a familiar ring to it! (Not caterpillar specific - although personally I think caterpillars are pretty cool!)

    I often find myself feeling the need to explain myself to NTs, but I become self-conscious once I start doing it, which makes me seem/sound more awkward - and then afterwards I reflect on how awkwardly/strangely/ramble-y I must have seemed.

    But then, if your neighbour had finished telling you his news, there wouldn't have been anything wrong with you then telling him why you were in a bush and talking about caterpillars. So you weren't necessarily awkward at all.

    I'm now going to have these two songs stuck in my head!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RslgSbshURI

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzxJ5YvYfx4

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  • Oh, this has a familiar ring to it! (Not caterpillar specific - although personally I think caterpillars are pretty cool!)

    I often find myself feeling the need to explain myself to NTs, but I become self-conscious once I start doing it, which makes me seem/sound more awkward - and then afterwards I reflect on how awkwardly/strangely/ramble-y I must have seemed.

    But then, if your neighbour had finished telling you his news, there wouldn't have been anything wrong with you then telling him why you were in a bush and talking about caterpillars. So you weren't necessarily awkward at all.

    I'm now going to have these two songs stuck in my head!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RslgSbshURI

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzxJ5YvYfx4

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