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Using our Universal Autistic Universal Super- Power for good.

I Sperg

What Universal Super Power I hear you ask? 

That's a manifestation of it... 

We are essentially Annoyiing People. Now I know that is a very aut-ist thing to say but it is I am sure the more enlightend reader will agree, an essential truth.

We are annoying to others.

Some people leave the forum they find this truth to be so manifest, often whilst denying it.

Fortunately for me during my half century of not so blisfull ignorance of my own autism I had manged to observe absorb adn cope with teh basic fact that most people find me annoying.

Some instantly, some over time.

SO how do I use my powers for good? 

Simples: When that phone rings and a gentleman with a strange accent and poor audio introduces himself as Ramesh, and apparenlty the Motior Insurance Bureau has notified him of my recent vehicle accident, I simply ask him: "Which one?".. At this point Romesh starts scrambling for information, so I press home my request for information, and he eventually manages to tempt me It's the one this year or last". I again ask him "Which one?" (Since I've now established that he is of course lying, for me it's permission to take the gloves off and get "creative" mysellf...) 

By taking up the time of these people, and delivering no rewards whatsoever, I reduce the probability that they will find a gullible victim.  

God made me annoying, but he gave me a whole lot of choice in how I use my gift....

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  • I Sperg said:
    God made me annoying, but he gave me a whole lot of choice in how I use my gift....

    This made me laugh I Sperg! 

    I am probably also very annoying, but I only spend short periods of time with people. I am probably okay in small doses but you don't want to spend a very long time with me. 

  • in reply to Autumn_Trees

    As a kid, I used my bicycle and as a young man my motorcycle to make sure I was always able to go and see people.

    That way I could control the amount of exposure they had to be, and take on the aspect of a "social butterfly".

    I found early on that I got the best out of people if I turned up out of the blue. I was either a welcome visitor, or could quickly go elsewhere. 

  • in reply to I Sperg

    I wish I could say that I was proficient at motorcycling and road-use, but that would not be true, because I’m terrible at both.

    But my attempts to learn weren’t a total waste, in my great discouragement, I learned to fundamental truths.
    Motorcycles don’t have a reverse-gear, very-useful to know before getting stuck at a T-junction facing down-hill, whilst obstructing a bus’s turning-circle.  
    And secondly, “when you are in the right-most lane at a round-about entrance, you don’t need to do a life-saver check!”, which my instructor implored most-vehemently.

    On second-thoughts, I think a may have the superpower that you mentioned, but for entirely different reasons..

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  • in reply to I Sperg

    I wish I could say that I was proficient at motorcycling and road-use, but that would not be true, because I’m terrible at both.

    But my attempts to learn weren’t a total waste, in my great discouragement, I learned to fundamental truths.
    Motorcycles don’t have a reverse-gear, very-useful to know before getting stuck at a T-junction facing down-hill, whilst obstructing a bus’s turning-circle.  
    And secondly, “when you are in the right-most lane at a round-about entrance, you don’t need to do a life-saver check!”, which my instructor implored most-vehemently.

    On second-thoughts, I think a may have the superpower that you mentioned, but for entirely different reasons..

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