Random Acts of Annoyance
Now, befoere anyone gets into their head that I'm just angry and
unpleasant, I have autism, a condition which, if you havent been
paying attention for the last few years, has an interesting side
effect of making someone very adverse to social contact with
anyone, at anytime, anywhere.
I have a bone to pick with people on the street. You know, the ones who, while walking aronud town, have a weird tendancy to randomly say hello, or make other unpleasant noises in your direction. I especially DESPISE it when walking through the town in which I live, people in trackies who walk around abusing the english language by saying "oi! innit mate!" yell at me randomly from the street, as if talking to someone you dont know is a good idea. I find the whole principle of people doing so does nothing more than make my skin crawl to an obscene extent in an attempt to get away from the people in question. I especially hate it when I go into a bar and some drunk of the male persuasion starts talking to me in a slurred, not really broken, so much as shattered form of english and leaning on me, getting me drunk with their fumes when all I reallly wanted was to get a quiet drink in peace.
The other night, in particular, I was drinking with a friend who is a LOT more sociable than I am, and he felt a need to talk to a guy who decided to get into my personal space, despite the fact that I wear black , wear work boots, generally look angry most of the time, and he wondered why it looked as if I was about to angrily fire projectile vomit at him.
Its as if people dont read the body language of wearing black clothes, work boots, and generally looking angry (mostly due to the autism) and partially due to the fact that socially, I have no idea what I'm doing.
Or maybe I'm right, and strangers and drunken weirdos need to take a step back and think to themselves that talking to someone you see on the street and dont know is probably a bad idea.
Thank you
I just had to get that off my chest.
I have a bone to pick with people on the street. You know, the ones who, while walking aronud town, have a weird tendancy to randomly say hello, or make other unpleasant noises in your direction. I especially DESPISE it when walking through the town in which I live, people in trackies who walk around abusing the english language by saying "oi! innit mate!" yell at me randomly from the street, as if talking to someone you dont know is a good idea. I find the whole principle of people doing so does nothing more than make my skin crawl to an obscene extent in an attempt to get away from the people in question. I especially hate it when I go into a bar and some drunk of the male persuasion starts talking to me in a slurred, not really broken, so much as shattered form of english and leaning on me, getting me drunk with their fumes when all I reallly wanted was to get a quiet drink in peace.
The other night, in particular, I was drinking with a friend who is a LOT more sociable than I am, and he felt a need to talk to a guy who decided to get into my personal space, despite the fact that I wear black , wear work boots, generally look angry most of the time, and he wondered why it looked as if I was about to angrily fire projectile vomit at him.
Its as if people dont read the body language of wearing black clothes, work boots, and generally looking angry (mostly due to the autism) and partially due to the fact that socially, I have no idea what I'm doing.
Or maybe I'm right, and strangers and drunken weirdos need to take a step back and think to themselves that talking to someone you see on the street and dont know is probably a bad idea.
Thank you
I just had to get that off my chest.
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It never helps to get angry and annoyed. Try to avoid that if you possibly can.
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