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I remember I was in childbirth class right before my son was born. I kept answering questions before the teacher could finish or talking out before she could finish, I kept taking her questions literal, and saying things lot of people wouldn't normally say. But at least I made everyone laugh. No more classes for me.

I remember back when I was a kid and I used to follow kids around if I liked them. I did it to my friends too and to this day I still don't understand why it bothered them. Don't friends stick together? Don't they follow each other around?

I have not noticed someone talking to me because they didn't get my attention so kids thought I was deaf.

But I can't think of what my latest social mistake was. I don't even think of them nor keep track. Unless me telling my husband to hand me over the Boppy counts because I did not ask for him to hand it to me, I told him to give it to me and I didn't even realize it.

I am diagnosed with social anxiety (as I have never been tested for an ASD although I now suspect it) but I don't really ruminate about my social mistakes. I have long thought that I am just prone to being a bit socially awkward and certain bad habits so I tend to warn people about that. What I tend to do is make the same mistake (when I forget myself) and then people get angry or annoyed with me. I then get upset because they are angry or annoyed as I really didn't mean to annoy and I do not like it when people tell me off!

I do not mind being socially awkward in some ways, it is the reaction I get from other people that upsets me, especially when they get nasty with me. People get annoyed with me a lot.

The social mistakes I make often are 1) dominating the conversation and 2) interrupting too much. However, I never realize that I have made a social mistake in first place until after the other party completely rejects me. Most of the time, even when people try to explain to me what I did wrong in a social situation, it does not register. The responses here show a relatively high level of social awareness to me.

My last one was in written form. I tried to get involved in a group of AS people gathered around a blog of somebody with AS (in Hungary). I failed, miserably, by sending an inappropriate message (or two) to the blogger. I've earned the status of a completely outcast, I have no replies at all. In the meantime they formed a forum where the blogger stated "We kindly Invite everybody". But me. Strange, though. Duh.

My most glaring social mistake has been coming across as a know-it-all. I have a tendency to fear being considered stupid, and feel I must "prove" I'm smart. In school I was always waving my hand like a maniac, reminiscent of Arnold Horshak from "Welcome Back, Kotter" on TV. "Oooh! Oooh! Call on me!! !" In classrooms where raising your hand and being called on were not the custom, I blurted out answer after answer before anyone else had a chance to. I had to get in there and SHOW I knew, so nobody would be able to accuse me of not knowing.

Even the teachers told me to shut up. The funny thing is, I could understand why the other kids wanted me to shut up, even though I disregarded their feelings, but I didn't understand why the teachers wanted me to shut up too. I was middle-aged before I figured it out. The teacher has at least 20 or 30 other kids in the room, and his/her job is to hear from ALL of them. Besides, I didn't have to demonstrate verbally that I knew the right answers. Grades on tests would reflect that. Nor do I have to "prove" I am intelligent at all. People know. And just because some bunch of kids might have told me I was stupid, doesn't actually mean I am. It doesn't even mean they really think so. (Not to mention, so what if they did think it?)

This carries over to adult life in some ways. Watching a game show, I have a habit of calling out the answer before the contestant does, just to show the other people in the room that I know it, when really nobody besides me cares whether I know it or not.

I *think* I have managed to break myself of the habit of answering questions addressed to somebody else.

My life is a social mistake.

WOW! I am glad I'm not alone with the questioning professor issue. I got suspended due to some issues last time in college. I found out after it happen that the "Psychology teacher didn't know how to answer your questions so she was avoiding you so she didn't have to answer your questions." Last I checked SHE WAS THE EXPERT WITH THE DAMN PhD SHEESH!!

ROFL! The store moment mention HILARIOUS!! !

Apparently tone is very important. I was at a restaurant last night and there was a table beside us that were being very loud so I looked over wondering what the hell was going on because it was obnoxious noise wise. Our waitress then said "oh those guys are getting married", with which I replied "The two dudes are marrying EACH OTHER?" and she said yes rudely and walked away and then my girlfriend and her friend said I sounded homophobic, but in reality I was just trying to clarify whether she meant they were both getting married (separately to different women and were celebrating) or marrying EACH OTHER. My sister is a lesbian and I am not homophobic at all. I was just trying to clarify damnit.