Chores

As an autistic, who is self-aware, I often wonder if others are also self-aware.... What makes someone unaware?

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B is in the grocery store right now and I'm in the parking lot. I've stood most of my day, so I'm happily sitting, awaiting his return. 

It's fun matching people to their cars... It's fun seeing glimpses into their lives:

A woman in an all black business suit and stilettos gets out of her red leather interior red, black Mercedes, with a cloth tote bag in hand. She got the tote out of her backpack briefcase. Environmentalist badass boss. 

A man, maybe late 30s, leaves the store with a 4 year old, mid-tantrum. The kid, not the man... He calmly puts the yelling child into the backseat of a white crossover that had just arrived a moment before. And then he himself opens the passenger front seat. The car stays there about 2 minutes and then drives off... 

A young man got into a small pickup truck with a math-problem-worth of oranges in those mesh sacks. The back window wasn't really a window, but a taped border of a trash bag. I wonder what had happened... And I was assuming maybe he was making a run for a restaurant as a hail Mary ... I hope he was still paid. 

So many different kinds of people. So many different peaks into their lives. So many different types of situations they found themselves in ... So many different walks of life happening in this parking lot. 

I wonder if they're self-aware? They didn't really know of me observing them. They didn't know I was there. Would they have acted differently if they knew? Would they have gotten an attitude? 

I think it's important to stop and observe your fellow human, from time to time... See how others live and function... They all have such intricate lives and reasons of going on. 

Fascinating.

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Snow.  

Do you think they're self aware?