aspie social mishaps, vent your awkward 'aspie' moments here

[david]

Hi - my name's David, I am 30, and I have Asperger's Syndrome. I only realized what was really going on with me a year ago. Knowing the source of my awkwardness and social disappointments has helped me to lessen the full effect of any perceived disaster.

I don't know about anyone else, but all my life I have felt separate from other people and my social interactions have been pained and thin. Maybe if others have similar experiences and we all talk and laugh about them together, we can help each other to overcome how bad we can feel sometimes over it all?




Oh - here is a funny and embarrassing story:

I'm better about this now, but I used to not pay attention to the state of myself, especially before leaving the house. One morning I had to go to the bank before work. While I was there, I did notice that the teller looked at me and then down, as if she was trying not to react to something but I passed it off as just being paranoid.

When I got to work, the secretary quickly told me there was shaving cream all over my face - I had started shave before leaving, had gotten distracated, and completely forgotten. I didn't feel the shaving cream on my face but I never feel much of anything because I'm so out of it and in my own internal world. And I'm telling you that shaving cream was caked on. I had probably put it on, taken two swipes, and just completely forgot myself.

So, that was embarrasing and I would like to hear YOUR story so I can forget MY story.

[Bikki]

Welcome to the board, David. Good topic.

I can relate to your story - not that I've actually done that myself, but I've gone out looking a mess before. It never seemed to matter. I'm better than I was at, say, 12 (there are pictures of me then going out in what looks like a perfectly normal top with pyjama trousers made for a child of six - not actually pyjamas, but they looked like it), but my hair sticks up to this day.

Anyway, my worst Aspie social mishaps were when I was a young 'un. I used to love cats (and still do!), so I thought that pretending I was a cat, meowing and crawling around and so on, would make me friends. Obviously, it didn't do any more than get me laughed at. But I was in my own "cat" world and thought that was exactly how things worked.