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A Day on Planet Earth

Steven

"You pile of pillocks..."

A thread documenting your contact with the neurotypical world

*2 minutes into a pleasant conversation in my local store*

ME: "I'm autistic."

The shopkeeper literally takes a step back, as if Autism is contagious.

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SALESMAN: "Good morning! I'm from Encyclopedia Britannica."

ME: "Is that the one with the spaceship?"

SALESMAN: "No, that's Battlestar Galactica. Goodbye."

Okay, that last one didn't happen. Yet. Keep us updated with your daily adventures on the strange Planet of the Neuroconfusings.

(Thread title courtesy of Mariusz. Thank you.)

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  • Few days ago I tried to adopt (I think it was Martin's) way of answering ''How are you?'':

    Colleague: Hi. How are you?

    Me: Hi. (Pause, mind equivalent of swallowing) Would you like the socially approved version, or the truth?

    Colleague: Truth.

    Me: We haven't got enough time for that.

    End of conversation.

  • in reply to Mariusz

    I find it amazing, the reactions I sometimes experience. A month or so ago, I had an appointment at my local council's Autism service's office. During the journey, I told the taxi driver the name of the office and that I'd never been there before. Her behaviour seemed to change instantly. Not only did she (kindly) insist on driving 'round and 'round the estate until she found where the office was, and never charged me for this, but she also insisted on walking me to the reception desk, presumably because I might otherwise get lost.

    Kind gestures all. But perhaps this incident shows that, for some people, autistic = disability.

  • in reply to Steven
    Steven said:
    for some people, autistic = disability

    I did touch it in my short story ''A day on a planet Earth''.

    Have you read Battlestar Galactica books?

  • in reply to Steven

    So about Battlestar Galactica books.

    Those who watched TV Series only are unaware that they changed Cylons completely compared to those in books. Books version is a robotic race, with a 3 levels in hierarchy: ordinary Cylon with one brain, promoted to captain receives his second brain, and than there is only one highest rank with 3 brains, he is godlike and can almost predict future like psychohistory equation from Asimov's Fundation Series

  • in reply to Steven

    Yet you watched TV Series Stuck out tongue

    It might seem so at first, but sooner or later you become familiar with terminology, and something unfamiliar forces you to at least attempt to imagine it.

    I read it somewhere:

    Someone who is reading fiction lives many times.

    Isn't that amazing? otherwise it would be just the life we have here on this planet.

    I fully support copycats by mocking them endlesly Stuck out tongue

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  • in reply to Steven

    Yet you watched TV Series Stuck out tongue

    It might seem so at first, but sooner or later you become familiar with terminology, and something unfamiliar forces you to at least attempt to imagine it.

    I read it somewhere:

    Someone who is reading fiction lives many times.

    Isn't that amazing? otherwise it would be just the life we have here on this planet.

    I fully support copycats by mocking them endlesly Stuck out tongue

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