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Brandt's book, Unoffendable, check out Brant Hansen.com. Hey, just to catch you up with stuff if you're

new to the show, my name is Brandt. I have Asperger's syndrome. We talk about that occasionally.

People who are on the autism spectrum or know someone can identify with

this, but I send off by nature the wrong social signals. It's just what I do. I radiate

hostility, even when I don't mean it. So I'm thinking, hey, let's be friends. They're thinking,

what is the matter of that guy? Right.

You know what happened yesterday?

I was going to a new doctor.

I'm like, he's going to come through that door.

I will usually, like, they just all business with me, don't have any time, don't care.

And they can tell I don't like him, even though not necessarily that's the case.

It's the whole situation, right? Yeah, it's just fraught with hostility.

Mm-hmm.

This time I thought, I'm just going to smile.

Oh, that's nice.

So I just, like, I'm just going to keep smiling.

I'm going to talk, you know what I'm going to talk about?

Talk about the weather. Okay.

And I thought of things I could say about the weather.

Oh, that's nice because prior to that, you told me you were going to do some social facts.

So you abandoned that. No, abandoned that.

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