My regular customer J, told me early on he was autistic. If so, he\u2019s pretty high functioning as he holds down a good blue collar job. He feels this entitles\/requires him to call all women \u201cshelias\u201d and to say \u201cgood day mate\u201d at every opportunity. Evidence of an ironic sense of humor? (Not a common autistic trait, I would have thought.) He\u2019s a nice young man apart for that and we often talk. His main autistic trait seems to be that he has no filters. Sometimes I catch the other customers sniggering at things he says. Fortunately there was no one else in the waiting room recently when he startled me by replying to an ordinary \u201chow are you?\u201d with the information that he\u2019d caught a venereal disease. (And no I didn\u2019t ask for details \u2013 he probably would have told me and I really didn\u2019t want to hear.)Still he has informed his partner\/s very assiduously so it is no business of the station staff to judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My regular customer J, told me early on he was autistic. If so, he\u2019s pretty high functioning as he holds down a good blue collar job. He feels this entitles\/requires him to call all women \u201cshelias\u201d and to say \u201cgood day mate\u201d at every opportunity. Evidence of an ironic sense of humor? (Not a common …<\/p>\n