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My little brother. He’s taller than me but younger. He communicates by typing and sometimes uses PECS cards for things like signaling the bathroom or that he’s hungry. He found some funny ways to use the bathroom card but I’ll get to that later.
he has an adorable stimming behavior he does when he’s happy. He doesnt flap unless he’s upset so when he is happy he squats down low and claps once and stands up straight and claps above his head. Pure autism.
As a big sister it’s my job to mess with him but I only do it in private and don’t post videos cuz hello privacy matters. so here’s what I do.
I untie his shoelaces. He chimps out.
I tell him Optimus Prime sucks. He yells “nawwwww” at me, it’s his version of no.
Sometimes I put olives on his plate when I give him food. He hates olives and throws them at me. It’s a game now so he laughs but he used to get mad.
I say “you’re excused” for no reason. He looks at me like I have snakes for hair.
He messes with me right back so it’s not like I’m always the starter.
Bro likes to stick his ass towards me and fart as loud as he can. Then he hands me his toilet card. Not because he has to go, he’s commenting on the smell.
He shoves my food to the back of the fridge and I have to move stuff around to find it.
the random yelling! Be absorbed in a book or tv and suddenly he goes “BLEEAAAAAAAH!” It takes the soul out of you.
He shows me the bathroom card if I say “shit” near him.
I love my bro.
Autism in the grocery store about 3 years ago:
So one day I was at a Great Canadian Superstore, which is a Canada-wide chain analogous to Walmart in the U.S. as in they sell pretty much everything. They often have the best prices for groceries so one day I was meeting a friend for a night of bad behaviour and I and decided to grab a few snacks while I was on the way over so I pulled into this unfamiliar Superstore and grabbed some items.
Going to the checkout area, I could see that there was 3 regular and 2 'express' lanes open. 4 of the lanes were stowed, backed up into the aisles, but one of the express lanes was completely empty, except for an Asian woman wearing a jean skirt. I thought i'd be home free, dodge the lines and out the door, so I get in behind her and start putting my shit on the conveyer belt. which dosen't move. Because the Asian woman infront of me who had a huge load of pet food of different types and brands, and a big coupon book, was arguing over EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TIN squeaking in an incredibly high pitched voice, and the young girl working the till was looking about 10 seconds from crying or quitting, was going over every single item pricewise and all the discount offers of buy x for y price shit with this bird chirping woman.
5 mins pass. 10 mins...the other lines have all refreshed by now, I could swear a few people looked over at me pityingly. I guess they all were regular shoppers here and knew the drill, and exactly which bitch to NOT be in line behind.
Finally it was down to the last couple items, and the woman is starting to chimp right out over 50c she is being improperly charged. After 10 mins of this I first called to her and said "hey miss, if it's 50c your worried about, I'll cover it!" She ignores me and keeps chimping at this poor girl, who has developed the thousand-yard-stare of a Viet Nam war veteran by this point. I even shook her on the shoulder and repeated my offer, and she completely ignored me to twitter at the cashier some more. I am sure it wasn't the first time someone had done this with her. By now nearly HALF AN HOUR I had been sitting in this fucking line behind this autistic bitch. I finally just engaged the cashier and gave her the money that this fucking aspie refused to do. She smiled in relief, put the woman's reciept in the bag and rolled it down the conveyer belt so that she would have no choice but to leave the cashier area who cheerfully said 'okay, all good now, thank you for shopping at SuperStore! to the 'tard as she chased her bags of pet food down the bagging area.
I got my shit rung up, in 20 seconds flat, the girl closed the till after me (and probably went to murder her managers in the break room) and last I saw of the jeanskirted azn she was marching up to the customer service desk, bag in one hand reciept in the other getting ready to lay down some autistic birdsong and waste more of her (and the staff's) day.
I gots many more, one fairly spicy with lots of retard sex, but I will have to post it later when my vodka level is high enough.
This poor cashier I had to watch deal with two tards that didn't have a wrangler with them last night.
Waiting in line behind these two women with a cartful of groceries. They'd only put two or three items on the belt at once, wait to be scanned and charged before repeating the process. One of them kept flailing her arms and the other one kept squeakung a sort of "uhhh uhhh uhh!" sound and pointing at certain items shaking her head. The cashier thought she wanted the items voided out and did so, both women started doing their retarded jumping jack arm thing and making the sound.
The cashier said she didn't understand what they wanted, and was already getting annoyed having to only ring up two or three items at a time instead if the entire cart. One retard was able to say "paper" and point randomly. The cashier said "oh, are you deaf? I'm so sorry, here" and got a notepad and pen for them.
Retard #1 flung the notepad off the counter, made the "uhhhh uhhhh" noise, grabbed the cashier's hand and directed it towards her fucking cash register receipt paper and started digging out her wallet.
The cashier said "you want my receipt tape?" to which they both vigorously replied "yuh huh huh huh" Now clearly exasperated, the cashier said "you're not having my receipt tape" to which they started rolling their heads and going "ouyyyy oyyyyyy" finally the cashier calls the manager and lets him deal with the retards.
I could have moved to a different line but I didn't want to miss the show.
Flag burning is based.Hmmmm. This reminds me of the people who burn American flags because they want to make a viral You Tube video.
I also have some wild stories from my current workplace,
This sounds VERY promising. Share away, please!I also have some wild stories from my current workplace, but those involve certified nutjobs: I quit my uni job to work for my gov't evaluating disabilities applications.
So did they drive the manager insane?This poor cashier I had to watch deal with two tards that didn't have a wrangler with them last night.
Waiting in line behind these two women with a cartful of groceries. They'd only put two or three items on the belt at once, wait to be scanned and charged before repeating the process. One of them kept flailing her arms and the other one kept squeakung a sort of "uhhh uhhh uhh!" sound and pointing at certain items shaking her head. The cashier thought she wanted the items voided out and did so, both women started doing their retarded jumping jack arm thing and making the sound.
The cashier said she didn't understand what they wanted, and was already getting annoyed having to only ring up two or three items at a time instead if the entire cart. One retard was able to say "paper" and point randomly. The cashier said "oh, are you deaf? I'm so sorry, here" and got a notepad and pen for them.
Retard #1 flung the notepad off the counter, made the "uhhhh uhhhh" noise, grabbed the cashier's hand and directed it towards her fucking cash register receipt paper and started digging out her wallet.
The cashier said "you want my receipt tape?" to which they both vigorously replied "yuh huh huh huh" Now clearly exasperated, the cashier said "you're not having my receipt tape" to which they started rolling their heads and going "ouyyyy oyyyyyy" finally the cashier calls the manager and lets him deal with the retards.
I could have moved to a different line but I didn't want to miss the show.
Sure, why not? Please keep in mind there are often legitimate tragedies behind these cases, but then again, we - the case handlers - too have our Walls of Glory and Shame.Sharing is caring, please go ahead and tell them
There's a guy who is also a regular at the corner store I go to. Looks kind of like John Denver, always wears a cowboy hat and an army fatigue jacket. He's nice enough, but he's one of those people I think has mild autism who just likes to talk and talk and talk, and doesn't pick up on any cues you try giving to disengage from the conversation and be on your way. Guy once happily spent almost 15 minutes telling me about the origins of the phrase "catch-22" after I had affirmed that I'd read the Joseph Heller novel before.
Can't bring myself to get irritated with him. It can be annoying when he keeps on sperging when I want to get home and enjoy my snacks or smokes, but I get the feeling he's just some lonely dude who's happy someone pays attention to him.
I don’t think this girl had autism, but her obsession with the Nicolas Cage Ghost Rider movie sure as hell was autistic. I sat behind her in a math class and after she saw it the first time she seldom shut the fuck up about it. Ended up knowing everything about that movie before I actually saw it a few months later.
I had to get him to repeat the question once or twice because it was just so ridiculous that I was sure I'd misheard. Nope, that was really the question. I'm still not sure if I gave him the right answer, or if there even is a right way to answer such a wrong question. I'm the one on the spectrum in this situation.SIGSEGV's coworker said:Do you think that having a kid is just keeping semen for a pet?
I wouldn't be surprised to find something about me in this thread since I'm the kind of guy to ask stupid questions like that.I had a coworker walk into my office today and ask this gem of a question:
I had to get him to repeat the question once or twice because it was just so ridiculous that I was sure I'd misheard. Nope, that was really the question. I'm still not sure if I gave him the right answer, or if there even is a right way to answer such a wrong question. I'm the one on the spectrum in this situation.