>>1181444I move to block their path while saying hello in the most abrupt autistic way, just before we're close enough for it to be appropriate to greet them. I approach until they physically recoil and make a mental note to stay just within that distance. At all times I maintain eye contact - but I have a lazy eye so I make sure to occasionally look slightly up and to the right so sometimes my other eye is making the eye contact. Once the silence has gone on just too long, I abruptly walk away, without offering the farewell that the drawn out length of my greeting would normally make appropriate
