Published on 12, July, 2020
Come on guys 'fess up about all your secrets or not secrets but the things you don't do that everyone else seems too!
I haven't played a computor game since the late 1980's, I can't use a joystick or a controller.
I've never read Harry Potter or watched any of the films.
I don't like chips or fries.
Cars.
Why are they status symbols?
They are just a tin can with wheels to me ...
Agreed. I've never learnt to drive and probably never will.
Debbie When I was doing my assessment, I kept on emailing them with random thoughts that I thought might help them assess me, There were loads - they were glad to see the back of me, I'm sure. And probably most of them just meant that I was crazy, not just autistic.
Anyway, this one of yours made me dig out the email. I said...
"I don't care about cars. People love cars. They are a tool. I often don't recognise our own car for a few seconds. I have no idea about other cars apart from maybe the colour and rough size. I was out on a date once many years ago and due to my other problem with having a rubbish sense of direction, I thought my car had been stolen because I was looking in the wrong car park. She said later that she was amazed because I was just “oh, well…” and not bothered."
I think it's a particular mind set that goes along with using or wearing brands rather than whats affordable and practicle. Although I did once own a Saab which I loved and still grieve for, a garage murdered it. You sat in it and knew it was built by Vikings for Vikings, I usually go for something smaller and comfortable.
I've never been to a sporting event either and wouldn't want to.
I have been to festivals and gigs, but they're all to big these days. I wouldn't want to go to the O2 arean or something to watch a band, its better to wait for the video to come out, you get a better view!
I don't know what it is with me and chips, but they make me feel bloated, I can't eat a small chippy portion and whilst I'd eat them to be polite if someone made them for me, they're not something I'd choose to eat.
Likewise the Big Bang Theory.
I don't like modern cartoons the way they're drawn is to spikey.
I do watch some reality tv, like Bake Off, Strictly and Pottery Throwdown, because it's real people doing something new or something they do as a hobby, I can't be doing with things like Love Island, I take one look at most of them and think they need a slap!