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Just like the character in Rain Man they are totally rigid in their

Just like the character in Rain Man they are totally rigid in their routine, and if anything changes that routine they often react quite violently. “I was totally unprepared for the disruption it would cause in my life” she says.”It’s hard to describe to anyone who has never seen autism. The twins have great difficulty in expressing themselves, and can get extremely frustrated by their own limitations. “They seemed to be locked into a little world of their own, with no interest in anything around them,” she says. Although Tina is the deputy head of a local primary school, she hadn’t ever had first-hand experience of autism, a disorder that affects more than 500,000 families in the UK.

When Tina Reynolds found out last year that her three-year-old twin boys were autistic she broke down and cried. She had already guessed there was something seriously wrong because neither Thomas nor Daniel had shown any interest in speaking or communicating with her. I always decline because, when dining alone, it is best to be close to others. After all, you never know what you might accidentally hear while staring out the window..

I also recommend theatre bars, queues and changing-rooms (the bra changing- rooms in M&S are the best) Then there are restaurants. Some restaurants now offer single women a “ladies’ table”, which is discreetly hidden away. What is it about a mobile that makes people think they are alone? Someone once told me it is impossible to have a proper fight on a mobile because, just when you get to the screaming bit, the other person pretends to be in a tunnel.Trains are among the best places to eavesdrop, especially late at night. Eavesdropping is usually accompanied by guilt.Perhaps this is why people get so worked up over mobile phones which are, let’s face it, an eavesdropper’s delight.

My daughter said that she almost interrupted her couple to tell them the facts about Coca-Cola and caffeine, but in the end didn’t. So she was eavesdropping, you see, because she didn’t want them to know she had been listening. But no coffee!” I asked her to repeat it to me for this article and she was affronted: “I wasn’t eavesdropping,” she said, “I just accidentally overheard it while I was staring out the window.”But of course. Her latest was the bossy wife and hen-pecked husband on a train. “No, you can’t have a cup of coffee, Harold! Too much caffeine! What, a Coke? Well, I guess that would be fine Just this once. It was not uncommon for her to say to my parents’ friends things like “So-and-so says that you’ve got a really big nose!”.
My eldest daughter was always a talented eavesdropper and she loves telling me about other people’s conversations.

To do it well you have to be invisible, and adults are pretty good at making kids that anyway. There is this myth that kids get bored listening to “grown-up talk”, but I was never bored Nor were my sisters, one of whom was amazingly indiscreet. I must stop listening in!

I cannot help it: I love to eavesdrop Nor am I alone One of the first things infants do is to eavesdrop. They kept moving around, picking up their pints, rearranging their elbows They didn’t talk so much as bark. Then, with a start, I realised that I should be having my own conversation. THE OTHER day I was in a pub having a chat with a friend. That was the idea, at least, except that I noticed a group of men at the bar.