Social Faux Pas Anyone Could Have Made

[Ste11aeres]

We hear a lot about our propensity for social goof-ups. The thing we Aspies can forget, is that sometimes NTs make social mistakes too. In fact, I think we sometimes blame our aspieness too quickly. Sometimes I notice an Aspie describe a social mistake/accident, and attribute it to Aspergers and I menawhile am thinking "Anyone could have accidently done that!"

So this is a thread to share stories about those socially foul moments that anyone could have had.

Today's story from me. Buying a Kindle book from Amazon using One-click order, then realizing that (this computer used to belong to someone else) the Amazon page was signed into the account of the husband of the previous owner whom I never knew very well, and I had just sent a book to his Kindle, presumably using his money.

 

[Ste11aeres]

As a woman, I understand how they felt, as I find the reactions of men to those things to be quite amusing. (You can ask me about the time I innocently asked my males best friend if he'd been breastfed. That probably was an Aspie faux-pas)

 

[Judge]

As a woman, I understand how they felt, as I find the reactions of men to those things to be quite amusing. (You can ask me about the time I innocently asked my males best friend if he'd been breastfed. That probably was an Aspie faux-pas)

LOL. No, I wasn't breastfed to my knowledge. However apparently it didn't make me anal-retentive enough to dodge the question! LOL. Was that one of those faux-pas?

I can see how some guys might get flustered by such a simple question. I don't mind being blunt over biology myself, (at least with people I know) but even then I know firsthand some folks can't handle it for whatever reason. LOL....I guess this could tie into that other thread about social conventions...

 

[Judge]

I'm sure there was some sort of unwritten rule involved, and that was definitely not a poker game. My eyes are still scarred from the moment.

You heard laughter- not scorn. I don't think there was any rule going on there...just an awkward moment. It happens. I'd file that away with a little humor and nothing else. Nothing to beat yourself over.

 

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I was at school, and someone persuaded me to join the hockey club. Never played in my life so I was quite nervous. We went together, and while we were there, standing next to each other, someone asked if we were sisters or friends. We're sort of acquantices (or were at the time), but even I thought it sounded awkward to say that so I said nothing. She said we were ''best friends''. From anyone else this would sound like sarcasm, but I know this person is very genuine. I nodded and said we were ''friends''. The instant I said it I knew I'd made a mistake. Everyone laughed and looked at me weird, and I realised I'd hurt her feelings. I just felt so stupid, and...dunno, inferior? I apologised a lot, and she said she understood what she said could be taken as sarcasm, and everything I think was fine. But it was horrible.

H.