hi hi! I just wanted to ask a few of the ask game questions! I'm especially curious about the questions with numbers 4, 9, and 28 :)
Hi there, Rora! Thank you so much for the ask! And contributing to me being a little social gremlin, and asking me the asks hehehe. Makes me happy lol.
Ooooo intrigued, are we? Well, let's see what I can do!
4: What's an inside joke you have with your family and friends?
Not really with my friends, but, as for my family: lol and "Woof."
The story of how we got "lol" as an inside joke:
I like to say "lol" a lot (not really, a lot, but used at appropriate times), and, this started all because of my mother. She likes to lose things (blame the ADHD), she was running late for work, rushing around trying to find it, right? And, do you know what I said? I said "lol" (I know.)
Because, like, it's funny, but not funny enough to actually laugh. And, for some reason, that got her good. She isn't the type to double over laughing, she's rather serious, and, for some reason, me saying "lol" took the edge off her stress. Now, it's something her and I use whenever something is funny (but also unfunny) and we, personally, find it hilarious, (but don't actually laugh about it, if that makes sense).
(Oh, the missing item I believe was her mobile phone, but, memory is a bit funny on that one - once I started, I couldn't stop. Lol is only used for comedic effect.)
The story of the inside joke of, "Woof":
As for "Woof," well, that's actually a funny one. So, there was this Husky on TikTok, and, when asked to give a "woof" by his owner, he literally went "woof," but human-like. Like he actually said the word instead of like, barking.
It was so funny to me, and I couldn't stop laughing (I rewatched that video at least ten times), and, somewhere along the way it became a verbal stim for me.
Fast forward a couple of days, my mother and I are at my Great Aunt's (my mother's Aunt) house. We were chilling about, I was on my phone (they were in deep conversation), when, all of a sudden, the video of the dog comes back on. And, without really thinking, the stim came out.
I said "Woof," and both Adults were understandably shocked. My mum laughed so hard, and my Great Aunt was sitting there in disbelief (but also laughing.)
And, yeah, it became a thing between my mum and I. Again, used for comedic effects. (I love to be funny when I can/not really knowing when I do it lol)
9: Tell a story about your childhood.
Oh dear god, this is a good question, and, honestly!... Can't really remember most of my childhood. And, I'm not too sure what constitutes as a good story (without it sounding boring.)
Thinking... Thinking... Oh! Okay! This is a good one!
So, when I was around 10 (almost 11) years old, I wanted to/signed myself up for a little 3-day-cricket day camp.
(I'm Australian, this cricket camp was in Janurary, and, HEATWAVES (yucky, okay?), and, I like cricket okay? I wanted to learn to play (to at least become closer to my dad, if that makes sense.))
Point being, I knew absolutely nobody at this day camp. At that age, I was also extremely anxious, and, well, extremely shy, (not anymore! Yay for healing! And for medication and therapy and YES!!!) and, I was sitting alone, and, quite embarrassed about being alone, by myself (not that I really minded too much, but still.)
Cut to a bit later, and another kid just sat down next to me. She started talking away, and I just sitting there like *what do I do?* because, a) I didn't know what else to do, there was a "stranger" talking to me, and b) someone was talking to me, like, an actual person, being nice and polite and yeah... you get the picture.
Somehow, by some odd sort-of miracle, we became friends? (Well, she asked me what high school I was going to, and, I told her, and she said "same!" and she basically promised me we'd meet up on the first day (mind you, we still had to finish Year 6 (last year of Primary school) before starting high school))
(Cute story, I know! We also ended up on the same cricket team for the club we did the day camp at! I did, go and find her on the first day, and I was worried she might've forgotten me (she didn't!) and, well, the rest is history.)
(We are, in fact, coming up on 9-10 years of friendship, next year, which, is pretty wild to think about, not gonna lie. So, yeah. That's how you make friends with a severely undiagnosed Autistic person who... didn't know what else to do. (All my friends did this to me, they forced themselves onto me and I just went with it... (yeah, says a lot, doesn't it?)
28: Do you collect things?
Yes! I do! Lots of things. The Autism doesn't shy away from a good time.
For starters, coins. Like, purely the money aspect. Lose change that's laying around inside the house goes straight into my little "savings" bucket (I've managed to save up over 600+ dollars, (also includes cash.)
Next, on the classic Autism-related spectrum of collection... ROCKS!
OMG, I LOVE ROCKS! THEY ARE SO SO SO PRETTY!!!
Okay... what else? Do books count? I mean, I am reading them (sort of) but, I just... keep buying the ones I want to read. Like, I'll get to them, I know I will, but STILL.
Highlighters, colouring-in books, those diamond art things (can we tell I'm the artsy type?).
Yeah, that's about it, to be honest. Pretty boring. I could probably tell you all about how I became extremely possessive over my belongings, because, my mother would come in and clean my bedroom. Without me asking. (And would take/throw away my THINGS.)
Anyways... Hope this is statisfies your curiosity!!! Sorry this was long, lol, I like to yap, and, there are like, so many other stories/things I could say about myself. (Also, I do hope these are the question you asked for, I... might've mixed the numbers up with the questions, sooo, let me know, and I'll do a redo if I did lol.)