Published on 12, July, 2020
I had an autie moment this morning when I was going up the stairs to my study room in the student union after getting a coffee. I always do this at this time in the morning and never see anyone.
Then a guy said hello and introduced himself. My brain scrambled. All he did was introduce himself and ask me how I was doing but I just couldn't reply normally. I went "Yeah things are getting busy this semester, I have two projects and exams are coming up" with my tone of voice way off.
It was only when I was at my desk that my brain caught up and I realised that had I been expecting to meet someone on the stairs I would have had a completely normal nice conversation. But because I was surprised my brain seemed to go into autopilot hence the talk about my tasks, when if I was talking normally I'd probably have said along the lines of "I'm doing good, I went to the park on saturday which was cool, how about you"
Anyone else get this? Like, meeting someone on the stairs even though I don't usually shouldn't make my brain scramble, but somehow it does?
Yes. All the time.
Yes I've had conversations like this. When you get surprise conversations like that your brain kicks in to autopilot mode and then you're in for a wild and random conversation full of god knows what lol. I'm mostly mute now but I've said loads of random nonsense when ended up in a surprise conversation.
I try to plan every conversation and then follow a script in my head but more often than not my conversations are never planned. They just sort of happen. I try to isolate and stay on my own but people still suddenly talk to me for some reason.
Sounds like you did great though under the difficult circumstances.
Yeah if you don't have a script these kind of unexpected conversations can be really difficult. Have definitely experienced. Yours sounds rather tame compared to some of the things I have come out with when people have surprised me with conversations to be honest I tend to info dump in these moments
Sounds like as close to a 'normal' conversation as possible given the circumstances and as such I'm sure he'll have barely noticed.
sounds like normal interaction to me! ... but I should not be used as any for of guide to 'normal' human interaction! lol!!
P.S. for the avoidance of doubt I wasn't attracted to him, it was a purely platonic interaction