• Make chit-chat about events in the news related to sports, celebrities or other obscure pop-culture subjects before the first cup of tea or coffee.
  • Insist on eating out at Chuck-E-Cheese or a similar place full of flashing lights, competing noises, and crowds of loud, shrieking children running around.
  • Serve them a meal composed entirely of new, unfamiliar dishes.
  • “Hey– hey– space cadet — snap out of it!”
  • Schedule a trip with social events all day and evening long.
  • Announce that anyone who can’t tolerate certain kinds of fabric or clothing styles is just being picky.
  • Install a major software update (or change other settings on their computer software) because you think it will “make their life easier”.
  • Give them a surprise birthday party after a long day at work (school).
  • Put things out of order.
  • Dismiss their special interest as being stupid.
  • Deprive them of internet access.

Thanks for the great list from Andrea.