The autism spectrum

[BitBuster]

my initial reaction is not but rather at the thought of having to do the following:

1) Ride public transit for 1 hour while making pointless small talk

2) Walk around downtown for 1 hour while still talking about nothing interesting

3) Eat dinner for 1 hour while continuing to talk nothing about nothing

4) Walk around downtown for another hour while nothing talking nothing about nothing

5) Ride public transit back for yet another hour while nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing

This post made me laugh, mainly because it's so true! It's weird how social situations are rarely (never) as exciting as you might imagine them to be. I can completely understand why you'd give up on the whole concept.

"Small talk" is a terrible concept. The Native Americans had the right idea; don't say anything unless you have anything to say! Sadly, most people in Western cultures lack this sort of discipline.

(That said, I love public transit. Joyriding on the bus was one of the small pleasures of my teenaged life. Maybe it'd have been different were I forced to make small talk.)

More likely than not, if I accept, I get back to my house at the end of it all wishing I hadn't wasted 5 hours of my life (and some $) that I could have spent doing something actually enjoyable.

What do you find enjoyable?

also, practically none of this post applies to online interaction at all.

I don't need to take that quiz. I am who I am!

It's true that autism is just another label...but then, knowing what you have can help you deal with those facets of your personality that might be seen as "odd" or otherwise unorthodox...or so I've been told.

Oh. Upon further inspection of the pdf thing, it would appear that I have mild ADD or something like that.

Wonderful.

Honestly, I seriously doubt that anyone who completed that quiz could have ADD. I don't have ADD, and yet I still grew impatient taking it.