Your funniest Asperger's moment - General Autism Discussion

WP Members: > 75,000

New Today: 14
New Yesterday: 34

Your funniest Asperger's moment

Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Next

Wrong Planet Autism Forum Index -> General Autism Discussion

anxiety25
Phoenix
Phoenix

Joined: Aug 05, 2009
Age: 32
Posts: 820

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 10:15 pm Post subject:

When I was younger, in about 2nd or 3rd grade, my teacher asked a question to the class. I had my hand raised to answer it, but she called someone else. I left my hand up because often the other person would get it wrong, so it was just in case she wanted someone else to answer. As I sat there waiting, I started daydreaming and planning what I was going to do when I got home. After a few minutes, I heard the teacher calling my name a few times, and I'd forgotten what her question was or what I was going to say. I just sat there for a moment, spacing out, then when I heard her, I blurted out "Can I get a soda when I get home?". _________________ Sorry about the incredibly long post... "I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends." -Luna Lovegood

matt
Phoenix
Phoenix

Joined: Dec 21, 2007
Posts: 799

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 10:44 pm Post subject:

SpongeBobRocksMao wrote:

Once in a market, there was pork pie for sale. I told my dad I wanted one, my dad said "it's with jelly." Now, he meant a special kind of jelly for the pork pie, but I took it literally and thought a disgusting pork pie with fruity jelly. And my dad could tell I thought that by the look on my face. Laughing

I thought the same thing when reading your post. Laughing

AMD
Sea Gull

Joined: Sep 19, 2009
Posts: 221

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 11:03 pm Post subject:

I'm gonna post one my son did in the 3rd grade. The teacher asked a question about something they had just read. My son raised his hand and the teacher called on his. His response was that our van was broken and it would cost one thousand dollars to fix it. There was no connection in anyway. Completely off topic. And one of the things his teacher noted and took with her to the IEP meetings while he was being evaluated.

Mdyar
emuegg
Phoenix

Joined: May 29, 2009
Posts: 2514

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 11:07 pm Post subject:

Possibly a comorbid -related -sleep -disordered- anecdote here. Once ( 24 years ago) ,in the evening, I drove away from a petshop to go home at only about 20 minutes away. I all of a sudden found myself driving in the dark down an unknown road and totally unaware of what happened . I had to find an intersection and then a gas station to get a map to find out where I was to get home. I was 2 hours off course at my arrival. Either I spaced out for balance of two hours or fell asleep at the wheel and 'slept-drove'? .......... (I would sleepwalk a lot when I was younger and was even capable of holding conversations ;writing letters, and then to do an abrupt ending and go back to bed and not remember a thing. )

Shebakoby
Phoenix
Phoenix

Joined: Sep 06, 2009
Age: 40
Posts: 1567

Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 1:25 am Post subject:

One time some relatives were having a chat with my parents and me and a couple of my siblings. The topic came up of some cousins of mine who had bought a house and were putting in new flooring. Now for some reason, my brain thought it was 'fur' flooring. Which of course doesn't exist. And I was like, "Wouldn't that be hard to clean?" Then I realized they meant FIR flooring (the wood, from Fir Trees) and we all had a good laugh because my brain thought 'fur'. I didn't mind, my brain does things like that every now and then. And that WAS funny. Hahaha fur flooring.

j0sh
NERD-NOS
Phoenix

Joined: Nov 19, 2008
Age: 36
Posts: 1195
Location: Tampa, Florida

Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:42 am Post subject:

I was in a AS support group and we were talking about dating. The counselor said something about what restaurant you pick could imply how serious the date was. He gave an example with taking the date to [some place I don't remember] or "The Golden Arches". My reply was "well I've never been to the Golden Arches, but it sounds like a nice place." Yeah... I can't believe I didn't catch it. He was talking about McDonald's.

Blindspot149
Phoenix
Phoenix

Joined: Oct 08, 2009
Posts: 2516
Location: Aspergers Quadrant, INTJ, AQ 45/50

Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:49 am Post subject: Funniest Aspie moment in a movie

Cant remember the movie. Canadian guy moves to the US to take up the Manager position at a Grocery chain outlet (working at a big grocery store, not a store that sells Grocery chains ) Anyway he had to attend the corporate 'team building' course.....................yes I know, my idea of hell too. Everyone stood in a circle and was told to place the large paper grocery bag on their head and THEN............to take off something that they didnt need. Everyone except the Canadian Manager, took off the bag. He took off his watch........... When prompted by the NT tormentor (I mean team building leader) to take off one more thing..............he took off his tie, his jacket...............it stopped at his boxers I couldnt help wondering if I would have done the same I mean, werent we supposed to be taking stuff off that noone else could see????????????????

Cassia
Toucan
Toucan

Joined: Jun 29, 2009
Posts: 267

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 2:47 am Post subject:

Two of my favourite glitches in conversation: 1. Person A said something positive to me about Person B (who was more connected to me than to Person A, and was absent). I said "thank you," as if it were a compliment to me. (It's as if I got the "it's a compliment" part, but not the "compliment to someone else" part.) I instantly realized what I'd done and tried to backpedal. It was a little bit embarrassing, but also rather funny. 2. One of my fellow graduate students was giving a class presentation. The student ahead of me passed a copy of the handout back to me. In response to receiving the handout, I said, "Héllò" instead of "thankyou" - and then, "oops, waitaminute, thankyou". The presenting student asked, "what?" and I explained the situation. She said she'd thought that perhaps I was saying hello to the handout itself. I don't know if stories of absentmindedness count, but I have some good ones of that too. _________________ Now convinced that I'm a bit autistic, but still unsure if I'd qualify for a diagnosis, since it causes me few problems. Apparently people who are familiar with the autism spectrum can readily spot that I'm a bit autistic, though.

Awithliving
Blue Jay

Joined: Sep 25, 2009
Age: 28
Posts: 93
Location: Sweden

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:34 am Post subject:

Probably when my brother asked me how it went the day he knocked at the door and scared the sh** out of me and my ex-girlfriend, he told me that I should be careful while visiting the black hole. And I was like "What? What black hole?" Using the visual mind didn't help that much as it was black hole, can't believe the abstract thinking would lead to a vagina. Good use of abstract thinking.

TheDoctor82
Phoenix
Phoenix

Joined: Feb 29, 2008
Age: 31
Posts: 2312
Location: Sandusky, Ohio

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:43 am Post subject:

Some kids started harassing me many years ago when I went down to Florida to visit my family; we were at a beach. I literally said to the kids "didn't anyone ever tell you to fight with words, instead of threats?"( yeah, I was really a naive guy back then), to which they then responded with "did anyone ever tell you you're a dork?"... to which I literally responded with "yes, all the time!" in a polite manner beat that

Blindspot149
Phoenix
Phoenix

Joined: Oct 08, 2009
Posts: 2516
Location: Aspergers Quadrant, INTJ, AQ 45/50

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:52 am Post subject:

TheDoctor82 wrote:

Some kids started harassing me many years ago when I went down to Florida to visit my family; we were at a beach. I literally said to the kids "didn't anyone ever tell you to fight with words, instead of threats?"( yeah, I was really a naive guy back then),

to which they then responded with "did anyone ever tell you you're a dork?"...

to which I literally responded with "yes, all the time!" in a polite manner

beat that Laughing

Denzel Washington kept using a phrase in 'Training Day' that would certainly be warranted here and frankly seems to dispense with a lot of unnecessary vocabulary.

Of course, since it has so many different meanings depending on context, it would probably just add to our confustion.

My response will be a simple: 'Nice one'

In the movie, Denzel would have given a very hearty.....................MN (vowels and most consonants omitted)

10 points if you are wondering if that is the correct spelling of consonant

50 extra points if you are now googling to check it

Wink

TheDoctor82
Phoenix
Phoenix

Joined: Feb 29, 2008
Age: 31
Posts: 2312
Location: Sandusky, Ohio

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:55 am Post subject:

I'm confused, I confess. But I think you miss my point. I didn't say it sarcastically, or even with sarcastic intent. I literally just said it to acknowledge the question. Told ya...I was naive back then...

Blindspot149
Phoenix
Phoenix

Joined: Oct 08, 2009
Posts: 2516
Location: Aspergers Quadrant, INTJ, AQ 45/50

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 4:11 am Post subject:

TheDoctor82 wrote:

I'm confused, I confess. But I think you miss my point.

I didn't say it sarcastically, or even with sarcastic intent. I literally just said it to acknowledge the question. Told ya...I was naive back then...

I realised your final retort to the NTs was sarcastic.

Nevertheless Denzell and me stand by our very hearty MN (it's a very versatile expression) Wink

You can be 'awarded' and MN for things that you do deliberately and by accident.

But I realise that Aspies are often doing things by mistake