<p>[The</a> smoothies](<a href=“http://adamcadre.ac/calendar/12696.html]The”>http://adamcadre.ac/calendar/12696.html) </p>
<p>How well can we infer someone else’s intentions?</p>
<p>Having read the article, I think part of the problem is the way the choice is phrased. </p>
<p>The first is clear: the person did not set out to acquire the cup, he simply accepted it bcause it came with what he wanted.</p>
<p>In the second case, he did not set out to spend another dollar: he spent it only because it was required to get what he wanted. The question makes it sound as if his GOAL was to spend an additional dollar.</p>
<p>Does this put me on the spectrum, or does it simply peg me as a former technical writer? Or does being a former technical writer put me on the spectrum all by itself? :D</p>
<p>I am of another opinion. </p>
<p>I think the clerk, although trying to be helpful did not understand Joe’s request, which was to purchase the largest drink. The fact that a special cup comes with the purchase is not relevant and the added information could endanger the potential sale. </p>
<p>If the clerk really wanted to be helpful he would offer Joe the SMALLEST cup at the lowest price and tell Joe that there is free and unlimited refills on this purchase. (McD’s breakfast coffee for seniors) :)</p>
<p>The Goals:
Joe wanted the “largest” drink but didn’t specify how he wanted it. Joe was not looking for value.
The Store wants to make the largest profit per sale.
The Store wants to bring in customers by having a lost-leader.</p>
<p>Substitute “Selected College” for smoothie, and see if the answers hold true.</p>
<p>OOOhh, LOL, now we have Joe the Smoothie Guy and Joe the Aspie Guy! </p>
<p>Aspies have trouble with higher level inferences, and tend to take things literally. So if the goal is to get the largest cup, the rest is irrelevant, The intent was to get the largest cup. But I agree wit LongPrime-- tell him to take the free refills!!</p>
<p>Like mind games? Take a look at the spinnig silhouette. Do you see her spinning clockwise, counterclockwise, or both? [The</a> Spinning Silhouette Optical Illusion](<a href=“http://www.maniacworld.com/Spinning-Silhouette-Optical-Illusion.html]The”>http://www.maniacworld.com/Spinning-Silhouette-Optical-Illusion.html)</p>
<p>Actually, Aspie Joe would have argued with the clerk about paying an extra dollar and would have demanded the SAME amount in a NON-commemorative cup for the SAME price he paid every OTHER time he went to that particular smoothie shop…</p>
<p>jym, I see her only spinning counterclockwise. I can’t see it any other way.</p>
<p>That spinning woman illusion was cool. I first saw her spin clockwise for a few seconds. When I blinked my eyes, I began to see her spin counterclockwise.</p>
<p>I am sure Joe did not intentionally get a bigger cup or pay a dollar more. 
I’m positive.</p>
<p>And I watched the woman for over a minute and couldn’t get the switch to happen.</p>
<p>Oh dear, what does this say about my brain?</p>
<p>I wonder why I can see it spin in both directions and others can’t. Could it be because I’m left handed? :)</p>
<p>does it matter which way the girl spun? Her silhouette is awesome but first I had to get over the vertigo.</p>
<p>I have seen her spin in both directions as well–I’m also left-handed.
I think Joe intentionally got the biggest drink and everything else was just incidental (& annoying) to him–the commerative cup and extra $1.</p>
<p>Originally I thought the Aspi was the clerk, because he could not read the mannerisms of the purchaser. As I read the text, I discovered that the Aspi was the purchaser. </p>
<p>The trouble with forums and why forums are so interesting is because, we can not see others emotions, we can only read them. Sometimes I post vaguely on purpose and sometimes I post more directly. Surprises me when the vague post is taken pointedly and the direct post is vague. I think that W has this problem but more to the extreme.</p>
<p>I can’t believe I spent nearly 5 minutes watching the silhouette! But I have now gotten her to turn almost at will in both directions, alternating clockwise and counterclockwise 3-4 times both ways without doing a full rotation (although it did take a bit of quickly changing my own eye movements to get her to keep switching…wonder what THAT means?!)</p>
<p>Usually I can’t get her to change direction, but today she did. </p>
<p>Oh dear, scansmom, I like your scenario. Just how much Aspie is in me?</p>
<p>For some reason this reminds me of the great scene in Five Easy Pieces where Jack Nicholson is trying to get the diner to give him plain toast.
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<p>scansmom-
Your right- the silhouette isnt “spinning” at all- it is merely moving back and forth (ie side to side). If you watch just her feet (look awaaaaayyy from the rest of her Longprime…) you’ll see that its really just going left to right and then back to left again (you can sort of “make” her go side to side by gazing your eyes on her feet-- follow til they hit the edge one way and then start to look in the other direction. The feew will follow along with your shift in eye gaze). Btw, I am left handed too!! I recall when I first saw this, I looked at it with my son (ok ignore the “eww” factor of looking at this with a teenage boy). I SWORE That she was going counterclockwise and he SWORE that she was going clockwise,</p>
<p>And as for the aspie smoothie purchase, I loved your answer in post#5, scansmom!! Richt on! But in addition to it having to be the SAME cup inthe SAME size, he’d give the clerk a 20 minute dissertation on the manufacturing of the cup!</p>
<p>I’ve been slightly nauseous all afternoon. Can’t help but look at the full form. Looks like DW 35 years ago. Maybe that is why I am nauseous. :)</p>
<p>I clearly see her spinning clockwise. I’m left-handed and yet my experience is different from other lefty posters. I can’t for the life of me see what the optical illusion is!</p>
<p>Then again, I just consumed a mega-smoothie and I’m feeling a bit ill. I only wanted a small, but they were having a special on the extra-large one…something about a special cup. :)</p>
<p>All right.
I looked again and as I watched Ms.Spinner, I said to myself three times “She is going back and forth, not around and around” - and then she started spinning counter-clockwise.</p>
<p>I saw her spin both ways…kinda spooky.
And I’m right handed.</p>