I really hate the way people talk behind each others' backs, hate each other and then act like they like each other when they're actually together.
Hey Natalie, what kind of snake is that on your avatar?
People who expect me to be something i'm not. Being told to cheer up when i'm perfectly happy, i'm just not smiling. Being asked what's wrong, same scenario.
About myself - my selfishness, greediness and one sided nature. the fact I don't have any consistancy in most things that I do. Lazyness and finally the fact I keep things bottled up.
I HATE THAT!
~ Chewing noises
~ Giggly people
~ People who wear their pants below their ***.
~ Curebies
~ any many others
Mine is when people change, twist and re-shape their opinion in order to make it match with what someone in a higher position (in their hierarchy) would be "dictating".
Sensory pet peeves:
Indistinct noise coming from the next room while I'm trying to sleep.
The feel of dishwater.
High-pitched sounds, especially non-melodic screeches or very soft, very high sounds.
People singing off-key (including myself). I have a very good ear for pitch, and when I sing, sometimes I hear myself not hit the note exactly, because I don't have the control yet to be completely accurate. It's like not being able to control the crayon well enough to stay inside the lines, no matter how much you want to...
The smell of dirty dog, an uncleaned litter box, or a dirty hamster cage.
Celery strings.
TV sitcom laugh tracks.
Flashing lights--old flourescents, those strobe lights on traffic lights, police lights...
Having oily skin from not washing my face often enough.
Oh, and polyester... *shudder*. How could I possibly forget polyester!?
People opening the window on the bus when it's *** January!
One of mine is definitly impatience and not knowing things - I need to know answers as soon as possible, I don't like waiting at all.
-PDA (Public Displays of Affection) in class. It's really annoying to watch and wastes time. I'm glad I have a name for it now.
-Excessive use of bad puns
-When I don't have a name to call something that annoys me.
-The Wellness Act for the state of CT. It bans selling candy and soda in schools. Kids aren't allowed to even BRING IN soda by this act.
-When I have to explain what I mean again.
-People who think that going into Iraq was the right thing to do. Come on, now! This is almost like Vietnam all over again! And we started a genocide on top of that!
-People who call each other "***", even between friends.
-People who add "yo" to the end of their sentences.
-People who throw the puck during hockey. (Had more than my fair share of people throwing the puck right into my goal today.)
-When people use sports language I don't understand or doesn't seem to make sense.
-When my mom tells me to eat green beans because they are good for me. There are lots of things that are good for me. It doesn't matter if I miss one of them.
-Being overwhelmed with work.
-People telling me to hurry up.
you are so right, Meiloyn!
People that use sports terms, like I should KNOW immediately what that MEANS or feels like.
I read an article that AS don't have mirror neurons. When NT's watch a football game, or a group dancing, their motor neurons intheir brains FEEL what the others are EXPERIENCING through 'mirror neurons'. ASpies don't.
WE see it alright, but we miss the FEELING of doing it that those NT's and especially those who are really co-ordinated see it and feel like they are doing it.
So, when some one says "be a TEAM PLAYER" ( like I have ever been on a team! (sarcasm) or "dont' take your eyes off the ball" (ball? what ball? (sarcasm) or " it's a SLAM DUNK" I can only intellectually know what they mean. To them, they are EXPERIENCING the feeling.
and I just "pass the ball" and I know how it feels to pass and be passed. . .
Merle
Not every aspie. I never watch sports, but I know this through movies. When I watch a movie, I become the character in focus. If the character is sad, I'm also sad. If the character is in pain, I almost feel an imitation of that pain.
Drivers who think they're entitled. I may have said it already, but it gets worse every day.
The funny part is, they weave through traffic to get ahead of everyone else and I still end up right there with them anyway.
Also, people who try to argue against evolution but have no **** clue what they're talking about. Stuff like "well, I know MY grandpa wasn't a gorilla" and "*I* was never a tadpole!"
...honestly.
"Jesus wasn't a monkey!"
Seriously. Evolution is a slow process, and takes millions of years to evolve something.
We fine people here who drop litter
I think I made a post before complaining about some presentation I had to watch in my zoology class in high school where the kid repeatedly stated that penguins were from the "artic".
...When they aren't even from the Arctic??
I hate maps of Australia that don't include Tasmania.
I hate when people say "a-loo-mi-num" instead of "aluminium"
I hate when people try to sound Shakespearean by just adding "-eth" and "-est" to every word with no real attempt to understand the grammer.
-My Mom's dog will eat cat poop if she can get to the litterbox unnoticed. (So disgusting!)
My grandma's dog would do just the same thing!! That's uncanny!
I hate people who say that you can be mean to animals because they "aren't people". There was a case a couple of years back about some guys who took some kittens and set one on fire, and tied the other to the back of their car and dragged it along until it died in agony, and all they got was $1000 fine. I just thought that was disgusting!
I actually saw a dog eat poop one day. This lady took off her toddler's dirty nappy in her yard and put it on the ground. Before she could stop it, the family dog grabbed the poo in its mouth and ran off with it and ate it. I don't think you'd want the dog to lick you after that. Maybe they do it because of some deficiency in their diet.
An interesting suggestion. Elephants eat each other's poo in order to boost their immune systems.
Another thing that annoys me: Not being able to fast forward through the stupid anti-piracy warnings in DVDs. Especially those stupid ads. And the most recent one ("You wouldn't steal a handbag..." etc) is HORRIBLE. It's all sensory overload and jagged images and loud music and I hate it so much.
...Oh yeah, and those "Every cigarette is doing you damage" ads. As a non-smoker, I don't believe I should have to be subjected to those.
Land Transport New Zealand and other such bureaucratic bullshit organisations.