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 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Talking to people in your head

HistoricHomesDR
Posted: 29 Sep 2008, 6:42 pm 

Replies: 89
Views: 23,155
occasionally I want to share my interests with someone so badly, I pretend that I am. That's generally what I do too...along with the 'practice conversation' stuff. Even if I know I'll never have that particular conversation with the person I'm thinking about, I figure it will come up with someone ...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Does anyone else perceive NTs to talk like this?

HistoricHomesDR
Posted: 19 Sep 2008, 6:58 pm 

Replies: 13
Views: 2,731
To me the first sentence sounds much more Mid-Atlantic urban...just what you'd hear in a mid-century film-noir...or many of my old Philly friends. My wife still says my Philadelphia accent gets much thicker whenever I get mad about something. I suppose the rest could be backcountry Maine, but I'm no...

 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: The golden rule, and other nonsense

HistoricHomesDR
Posted: 18 Sep 2008, 11:23 pm 

Replies: 38
Views: 6,188
"Well, I was just talking to (insert name of an at least septuagenarian female here), and she said that she thought you were handsome..."

Oh swell, but her granddaughter saw me and threw up in her mouth a little.

 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: Clamming up in large group type situations

HistoricHomesDR
Posted: 18 Sep 2008, 11:04 pm 

Replies: 10
Views: 1,699
I absolutely do the same thing...the larger the group, the quieter I become.

 Forum: Getting to know each other   Topic: No such address?

HistoricHomesDR
Posted: 18 Sep 2008, 9:27 pm 

Replies: 13
Views: 1,940
I'd recommend your wife and her name first b/c she'll be more ok with any oddness until you get used to saying it to her and you can do it all the time. As for the specific issue I've always found it pretty awkward to talk to people but once I know them I dunno I can't relate well. Good idea! God k...

 Forum: Work and finding a Job   Topic: Waitressing...? Is it for aspies?

HistoricHomesDR
Posted: 18 Sep 2008, 8:14 pm 

Replies: 26
Views: 5,644
When I discovered I had AS, I told my mom, and after a lengthy discussion we realized that she displayed most of the symptoms as well...particularly in her youth. Anyway, she was poor and needed to quit high school and join the workforce to help support the family, so her options for work were prett...

 Forum: Getting to know each other   Topic: No such address?

HistoricHomesDR
Posted: 18 Sep 2008, 6:17 pm 

Replies: 13
Views: 1,940
Thanks all for the welcomes, advice, and commiseration! I hope in the future to be as helpful to everyone else as you've been to me...social train wreck that I may be :D

 Forum: Getting to know each other   Topic: No such address?

HistoricHomesDR
 Post subject: No such address?
Posted: 16 Sep 2008, 9:01 pm 

Replies: 13
Views: 1,940
I was curious if anyone else shares this odd behavior with me: For my entire life, I seem to have been unable to address those closest to me by their names/proper titles. I won't say 'Mom' or 'Dad' or 'Fred', 'Wilma' or whomever...not even my wife gets to hear her name escape my lips. If I'm not clo...
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