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*Little* Things That Annoy You (Pet Peeves)

GrownupGirl said:
Whenever someone on Facebook on autism "friendly" pages say their autistic child actually did something very non-autistic, like speak when they're not normally very verbal, or go to a social gathering and enjoy it, or eat something different, it just really annoys me to no end. I'm not really sure why, but I think that to me it's like inspiration porn. Of course everyone else is simply delighted when they read this, while I look like a huge jerk. Also when I was a kid I could speak, eat different foods and go to social gatherings, and no one cared!But that was all right, because the whole world still had unrealistically high expectations for me.:rolleyes:
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Hight functionning people had a hard /still have a hard time because we expect from us a lot more, especially if you had good results at school, for my family I should have been a doctor , at the end of hightschool everything crumbled because of social issues that no one understood, and now im lost in useless grades that wont lead me anywhere with 5 years lost in the process.

So ofc, no one will ever understand, no one will ever even acknowledge that we have a permanent struggle that no one is able to feel or understand ( then they talk about empathy.).

But just imagine for a few sec, the feeling of hopelessness and despair of parents having non funcitonnal kids , they know they wont be able to take care of their kids one day, one of the parent probably lost his full time job in order to take care of the kid, their life changed for ever.

When they see their kid going out of their isolation , speaking and doing thing, they have hope, hope that one day their kid will be able to handle their own life, like the light at the end of the tunnel.

So yeah, it is heart-warming.

But I understand you , we will never get recognition, and we are sometimes lost in our own darkness , so we may not realize it.
 
Mary Anne said:
Super annoyed at all things cell phones and computers. I want to run away and join the Amish, or Mennonites. Or jump into an old rerun of Andy Griffith and never come out of Mayberry circa 1960.
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My DH doesn't agree when I express these same sentiments. It is super annoying when people cannot function without a cell phone; they have forgotten to just enjoy a moment without trying to capture it and plaster it on a social website. I was at a small wedding last year (my niece) and the guests were instructed not to use their cell phones, because professional photographers would capture the event. When my niece came down the aisle, everyone stood up and started taking pictures with their cell phones, and I couldn't see a thing!:mad:
 
Gracey said:
Crane flies.

Flying at top speed straight into hot light fittings or walls?
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Here in PA it is stink bugs parading around the bedroom and pooping on the white walls. Ugh! If you smash them, they stink horribly so we have to capture them in a small jar, smack on the lid, then toss them back outside.
 
This probably isn't unusual for aspies, but hearing "Aspergers", "lack of", and "empathy" together in the same sentence. Someone says "Name of famous person (that I hardly knew existed) just died)." I say, "That's too bad." and get on with my day. And then NTs are like, "YOU COLD, HEARTLESS @%$!!, YOU HAVE ZERO EMPATHY AND YOU'RE A PSYCHOPATH!!":mad:
And the really strange thing, is that if a family member I was close to had just died and it was really hard on me, a lot of NTs would be telling me my grieving is just not normal, I should just get over it, when am I'm stop crying, I'm bumming everyone else out, and on and on. They only care when it's some "celebrity" who dies.
 
When parents dress twins in exactly the same/matching clothing, as if they were both the same person.
 
There are 2 things that annoy me far more than they should. The first one is those cheap drawer units where the drawers only come out about 2 thirds. They irritate me so much and the second is those plastic measuring jugs. Whoever decided to make the measurement markings the same colour of the actual jug is an absolute nitwit!
 
Gracey said:
Crane flies.

Flying at top speed straight into hot light fittings or walls?
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I think the only thing worse than crane flies is when you're having a shower/bath and either a moth comes in (seemingly with the intent of committing suicide) or a bee/wasp/hornet flies in and you have to make a quick getaway.
 
I now have to take a photo and enlarge it to read the tomes of crap they put on food packets and meidicines
 
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When you're trying to contact the local social services to speak to a specific person, and because I have a strong local accent, the people on the phone cannot understand me! I speak English in a Sheffield accent! FFS how hard is it?!
 
Mr Allen said:
When you're trying to contact the local social services to speak to a specific person, and because I have a strong local accent, the people on the phone cannot understand me! I speak English in a Sheffield accent! FFS how hard is it?!
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How hard? This hard:


Listening to him over the phone would just compound it all. :confused:

Perhaps it's all relative. I mean, could you understand this guy's accent over the phone?


In other words, y'all might have apoplexy talking to me on the phone too. :eek:

Though out of necessity I tend to speak with a generic "yankee" accent. What I find remarkable about Britain though is the short distances that can define such radically different accents. Over here you usually have to do some traveling before you run into accents you may have difficulty understanding. Also migration, transportation and communications are eroding regionalism here as well.

Maybe it's time to learn a London accent. Might come in handy. Just a thought.
 
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Judge said:
How hard? This hard:


Listening to him over the phone would just compound it all. :confused:

Perhaps it's all relative. I mean, could you understand this guy's accent over the phone?


In other words, y'all might have apoplexy talking to me on the phone too. :eek:

Though out of necessity I tend to speak with a generic "yankee" accent. What I find remarkable about Britain though is the short distances that can define such radically different accents. Over here you usually have to do some traveling before you run into accents you may have difficulty understanding. Also migration, transportation and communications are eroding regionalism here as well.

Maybe it's time to learn a London accent. Might come in handy. Just a thought.
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I don't talk anything like the guy in the first video, well OK maybe I do a bit, but my accent is kind of more "refined" than his (and no, I don't talk "Posh")
 
Mr Allen said:
I don't talk anything like the guy in the first video, well OK maybe I do a bit, but my accent is kind of more "refined" than his (and no, I don't talk "Posh")
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Good to hear. In short bursts his accent isn't that hard to decipher. But in sentence after sentence, I get lost listening to him. Still, you can always teach yourself to speak "posh"...if only for customer service calls.

If I consistently use my accent here in Nevada, something always gets lost in the translation. :eek: :rolleyes:
 
Gracey said:
Which area of London?
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Bloody hell. Not Reggie or Ronnie. Anything posh that's bleedin' proppa ! Like "Sir". :p

How about Belgravia? The sort of accent a chap can really sink their teeth into. Wot. ;)

 
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Bloody hell. Not Reggie or Ronnie. Anything posh that's bleedin' proppa ! Like "Sir". :p

How about Belgravia? The sort of accent a chap can really sink their teeth into. Wot. ;)

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:D

....sink their teeth into... Christopher Lee,
I got there eventually!

I was struggling to imagine you all East End Gangster or translating your eloquence into Cockney Rhyming Slang.
If the late Richard Burton (a Welshman-married to Elizabeth Taylor) can be taught to speak so beautifully then there’s hope for us all.
 
Gracey said:
Which area of London?

Eastenders, Kray Brothers type?
Or
The Queens English
Or
Everything in between?

How about some Cockney Rhyming Slang?
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Sorry but why should I learn to speak "Posh" just cos Indian and even some UK based call centres don't understand me? It's THEIR problem, not mine.

Also, learning to speak Cockney? How about no? I'm a Yorkshireman born and bred, thank you very much.

Like last week I spoke to a local Taxi firm, to book a Taxi to go somewhere, woman on the phone couldn't understand me, I said 3 times and by this time I was starting to lose my patience, I said "I am speaking English in a Sheffield accent, what more do you want?" and she proceeded to pull me up for speaking to her in THAT tone! Eh? SHE was the one who did not understand me in the first place therefore it's HER flipping problem!

As for learning a London accent?! No, just, no. Most people know my opinion on Londoners anyway, most of that lot are afraid of anything North of Essex, and they all think Northerners talk funny, yet they get all arsey if we comment on their accents.

Only exceptions are my niece and nephew, they both speak London, as they were born down there even though their Dad (my Brother) is originally from Sheffield and their Mum (my Sister in law) is from Gloucester.
 
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Mr Allen said:
Like last week I spoke to a local Taxi firm, to book a Taxi to go somewhere, woman on the phone couldn't understand me, I said 3 times and by this time I was starting to lose my patience, I said "I am speaking English in a Sheffield accent, what more do you want?" and she proceeded to pull me up for speaking to her in THAT tone! Eh? SHE was the one who did not understand me in the first place therefore it's HER flipping problem!
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Yeah, except that if you didn't communicate with her for some reason (not saying it was necessarily your fault but not hers, either), you are the one who will lose out because you won't get served and then it will be YOUR problem and not hers. Frustrating, but that is the reality of it. Try to speak clearly, if it is a name or address that she doesn't understand, spell it out. I find it hard to understand people on the phone too, especially if they have strong, unfamiliar accents.
 
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