Nervous anticipation

My wife and I stood in a queue for the supermarket checkout yesterday.  I looked at the people in the other queues and looked for clues as to how agitated they were.  I concluded that the closer to the front of the queue the more agitated they got.  (could be because they were in the self-service bit - you know the one which says "please scan another item" a fraction of a second before you're just about to do exactly that...  The sad but telling thing is that when I got closer to the front the same thing happened to me! (I got confused thinking that it was my turn - I'd got sidetracked talking about people getting more agitated!!!)  Anyway - the body and mind kind-off run a bit out of synch in terms of awareness it seems on such things.  As others have suggested it may be that autistic people have their attenuation to alarms and beeps etc "turned up" in comparison to neurotypical people?  I wonder sometimes if it's just that autistic people are just so much more aware - that's what's linked to all the anxiety, need for preparation, planning etc.  Hope that you enjoyed the toast   :-)

I distract myself in supermarket queues by looking at what the person in fron to fme is buying and trying to guess at thie rlife style and how many people they have in the house.

That's a good pastime. They typo for a minute had me wondering how you could work out how they fire a rifle :-) 

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