Posted 04 July 2008 - 08:25 AM
Oh, this class was pretty tolerant of my social Aspie cluelessness... It was the Journalism club. The Editor-In-Chief was this really proactive and on-top-of-things girl in like 3 or 4 different extracurricular activities... She and I were pretty good friends... When I said what I said to this other girl, the Editor looks at me and says, "SCHWA, you can't say those things to a girl!" And I'm like, "Why?" And she's like, "Because girls are really really sensitive about how they look at this time of their life!" She actually had to explain this stuff to me. But I was impossible. My response was, "Bah, girls need to get over themselves and start actually eating and stop doting over every guy they see." Although that was said in a half-joking manner.
Yeah, that class was one of the best classes I was ever in. Usually in school I always wore a social "mask" to protect myself, but Journalism was like the only class ever that I could be myself in and people would respect and love me for who I was. There was this black girl in there... I called her "Tiger" 'cause she was so aggressive and straightforward. She would always boss me around, JUST me, nobody else... It was kind of a running joke in the class. Finally I said to her loudly, "Tiger, I feel so horribly sorry for your future husband." Her jaw dropped, then everyone in the class laughed hysterically with comments like, "AMEN, Schwa!" and "Nice one Schwa!" and "One point for Schwa!" (Yes, they called me Schwa in that class. I told them I feel safer when people use my nickname and they totally understood that.)
Wonderful times. Too bad all my other classes were nightmares, socially anyway.