Funny life Events Seen Now Through the Autistic Lens

I'd still love to hear them! We've all done embarrassing things here. 

That is so funny. 

A few things have come to mind from your question but I find I am cringing with embarrassment too much to share them. 

Oh dear I am still at risk of taking things literally of course. But hopefully a bit wiser now I'm older

RIGHT THERE, M That's one of the sources of your terrible life. 

You instantly assumed Maritn was having a laugh at your expense, and reacted straight away ON THAT ASSUMPTION. 

I read Martins post, and thought "That's a nice thing to do, to give the guy a heads up that his user name has a meaning that he probaly was not aware of".

The good news is that you CAN easily stop doing that, M. and when you do, you will start to "win" a bit more often..

For practice, Try re-reading Martins post but pretend brifly he is a good friend of yours, and not an unkown quantity, and see how it reads to you then. 

Martin and I have at least as powerful and deep differing political beliefs, and those get to clash occasionally, BUT I also know that despite his catastrophically misguided politics, there's a lot more to the guy, and however he came to hold those beliefs isn't because he is stupid or bad, but more of an intriguing mystery. 

FWIW,  Outside of this very obvious "issue" you are an interesting and valuable member of this community, and occassionally make some very good posts. 

You really do shoot yourself in the foot that way, and since it's a problem I also have, I am qualified to both point it out, and also since I've managed to minimise it's impact on my life, by using the simple technique which I note you are learning NOW, (of making an effort to not react straight away but give myself time to simultaneously both test my assumptions, and also make a "best quality" response, which you don't often get by reacting quickly. 

I know you don't like me, and may not have got this far, and certianly will distrust my motives, but I can't just sit here, and watch you make the same social blunder, over and over again, seemingly without realising it, which WILL be pulling the quality of your life dwn, espcially of you present the same with those who want to be part of your real, off forum life.  

A good thing about me is that I am compelled to "fix things" if I can, and when I can, and it's appropriate I help others fix things for themselves.. 

You really COULD fix that "flying off the handle" thing you have going on. I suggest by finding and using the right psycholgical "tricks". 

It's WAY better than fighting to support a misunderstanding, then having to fight to sustain the misunderstanding after you've lost, which I remember doing a lot. THEN you can focus on the people who aren't having misunderstandings or even cracking wise, but are genuinely your enemy. 

I don't really know you, so I've no Idea if I am really being helpful here or just aggravating you, but I truthfully assert that I am TRYING to lead you to a (slightly) happier place, as I see an advanatge to be had for YOU, the whole forum, and most importantly ME, IF I can lead you to a more helpful understanding about this one single thing.

 YOU and OTHERS can interact in at least 5 roles on this forum, being Friend, Ally, Neutral, Frenemy, Enemy.

Why restrict yourself (or constrain others) to just the one or two roles that Black and White thinking tend to impose?? 

P.L.U.R.

I was most definitely not trying to embarrass you in the slightest, I am autistic and we seldom resort to that sort of manipulation. I just wanted to inform you, as I know there are a number of Irish people who are regular posters and wanted to give you a 'heads up' about how your username was undoubtedly being perceived in certain quarters. 

The word gee has another meaning.  I am not embarrassed by new username in the slightest.

In fact I'm more embarrassed by pathos free attempts to embarrass me.

But then, this is the comedy thread.

HARDY HARDAY HAHAHAHA

It also works the other way. Those who felt double-crossed by prefects become vengeful; as men and women.

I'm afraid I know some Irish slang and I cannot help thinking what 'My low gee' would mean in that vernacular, every time I see your user name. Not to beat about the bush, no pun intended, 'gee' (hard G) means 'female genitals'.

Some of things that have happened to me may be funny for others but they are less funny for me to recount.  Especially as my life is still terrible. 

I was on an meeting with an autism group and someone said that they didn't like fizzy drinks.

It reminded me that I was known amongst my friends as a bit of an eccentric who would de-fizz my drinks using a rapid two-finger movement in my glass. My friends got used to it and it was just one of my things.

It occurred to me during today's meeting that a neuro-typical person who didn't like fizz would order something else or just put up with the fizz. Whereas I came up with a practical but very weird looking solution. 

I liked Coca-Cola, but not the fizz.

Our sense of justice is so strong. I have that. I have stood up in a situation that no one else would quite a few times.

As a school prefect, I saw the biggest thug and bully in the school hoisting a smaller boy into one of the huge wheeled school bins. I went up to the thug and gave him a lecture, promising to report him to the head, which I later did. I think he was too surprised to throw me in the bin as well. Everyone I told about the incident was shocked at my temerity, but I just saw rules being broken and a boy being flagrantly bullied. Inflexible thinking is sometimes quite useful.

I was reminded this morning, over a nice breakfast in a café with my wife, of a time that happened back in my early 30s.

I was not long in a new job, and this job involved me going to customer sites. I had to go to a new customer site in the week running up to Christmas - about 2003. I didn't know these people at all, because I was there on an IT job.

At lunchtime, I found myself in a posh restaurant on their official Christmas party and had a nice Christmas dinner paid for in full.

It was only retelling this odd story to my wife, that it was suggested that maybe I misremember, and I was possibly just asked along in that polite neuro-typical way where they actually expected my refusal to go. Now that I look back knowing that I am autistic, it is far more likely that I gate-crashed this Christmas lunch through a misunderstanding of politeness!

Still, I got a nice lunch out of it!!!