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still-face-subject · 9 months
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There's this perception on here among neurodivergent people that neurotypical social behaviour is all fake and arbitrary. That it's a cruel, baseless game played to "weed out" ND people or to cause pain and complicate things on purpose.
This is wrong. All of those social rules and nuances ARE communication. Sorry if this is rude but it's not the NTs' fault if things don't gel- the gap goes both ways. Just because communication doesn't make sense to you, doesn't mean it's random or purposeless. Remember this post?
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Every interaction in an NT conversation has purpose, and communicates something, and I don't understand why nobody ever explains this to ND people. There's information on basic stuff like facial expressions, but never what any of it actually means.
Small talk about the weather isn't about the weather. It's about how nice it is to be around the people you're talking to, or feeling out their understanding of the world, or just saying that you're both present and people and you're being people together. It's not literal. The words are, but the broad scope isn't.
A conversation is not just an exchange of words, it's an exchange of acknowledgement, attention, and emotional understanding. Of course it confuses people when their part in that exchange is met with flat affect or unembelished words. It's like looking in a mirror and not seeing your reflection.
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cosmicdayglow · 1 year
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One thing that bothers the fuck out of me when I tell people I’m autistic, and they say the old “really? I couldn’t tell! You don’t seem autistic,” is that they COULD tell. They could tell that I’m intense and have no volume control because they’ve pointed it out. They could tell that I dont have a great understanding of social cues because they laugh when I miss them. They could tell that I stim because they’ve told me to stop fidgeting. So they COULD tell, because I DO “seem” autistic, but to them, they just saw my autistic traits as personal failures and never as things that I simply couldn’t help.
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genderimpala · 7 months
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anyone else stay home for a while and be like "hmmmm been acting fine lately. maybe i'm not autistic." and then you have one (1) social interaction and you're like ah. the Autism strikes again.
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necrofleshgoat · 7 months
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Able bodied neurotypicals forcing the "summer is fun" idea on everyone makes me really uncomfortable for some reason. I can't stand warmth and will literally cry in frustration when I feel greasy and sweaty and have the need to shower every few hours. Being outside without sunglasses becomes nearly impossible bc I'll literally be blinded and overwhelmed within a few minutes. The constant "you should go outside more, the weather is so nice" comments.
No. No it's not. And I hate how they don't give a shit about the comfort of disabled people in summer.
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catgirl-catboy · 1 year
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Neurotypicals will tell you for about the first 8 years of your life that lying is one of the worst things you can do, and to never do it under any circumstances, and then spend the rest of your life trying to mold you into a lying machine that tells 27 lies per day.
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titleknown · 8 months
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PROTIP: To defeat the Neurotypicals, focus fire on their directing Neurotyrant first:
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Do you see someone being mentally ill in public?
Are they posing an immediate threat to themselves or others?
If no then leave them them fuck alone.
You are conditioned by society to see mentally ill people as violent. Your fear is 100% based on ableism. Them being "scary" is not an excuse to disrupt their lives just because they can't mask.
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vibesaresubjective · 1 year
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Neurotypicals will say, "No one is watching you, Nobody cares about you enough to pay attention to you, Grow up" and then they will fucking watch you and notice shit you do or appear and tell you about it
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venus-dawnstar · 5 months
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I love seeing neurotypicals watch Gordon Ramsey and act shocked when he notices small details.
"Oh my god, he noticed the texture of the meat!" That's... Not what you do? You don't feel the textures in your food?
"He realized what he needed to add to the dish!" You can't tell when an ingredient is missing? You don't realize?
"He can tell what food is gonna taste good just by looking at it!" You don't know how to do that?
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Weirdo
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thetisming · 4 months
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"i'm so hyperfixated on this!/this is a huge special interest of mine!" "*we start talking about our actual hyperfixations and special interests*" "thats a really unhealthy obsession, are you mentally ill?"
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skull-ishcloud · 1 year
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I am sick of Neurotypicals saying they have the solution to your problems bc it works with them.
Despite them saying you are not "normal" and they don't understand you.
Like planners, like having a routine, like leaving stuff always in the same place, trying sports, etc...
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dougielombax · 4 months
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No.
I wouldn’t trust 99% of the general population with firearms.
Especially considering how Neurotypicals act around people like me.
Half the time they usually think that I’m insane and act like I should be sectioned or sterilised. Or worse!
Do you really think I’d want a mob of dumb, panicky, dangerous animals (to quote Men in Black) like them to be carrying guns?! With all their bigotry and othering on top of that?!
No.
I wouldn’t.
Absolutely not!
It’s out of the question.
Any of us (autistic people) even look at them funny, they start panicking and bleating on about how we’re frightening them and how they have a god given right to attack us on sight!
Heck, many of the dumb fuckers don’t even need an excuse! They just do it!
I’d keep them as far away from firearms as possible.
I’d keep the dumb fuckers away from crayons and sharp objects! To say nothing of actual guns.
Stupid animals!
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youronlyoneofcl · 2 years
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Seriously?! For real?!!
All this time whenever I use those words/phrases I meant it literally so I'm expecting the same when other people use it.
People I followed up must have been annoyed at me. T_T
Neurotypicals / non-autistics, why do you have such a complicated way of communicating? Why don't you just say whatever it is your want to say/mean?
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genderimpala · 8 months
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curious to know abt the correlation between neurodiverse folks and tattoos. bc i as an audhder would simply Never Get A Tattoo because i hate the idea of something being on my body permanently.
(this is also why i want to go on t and have the ftm surgeries but also don't want to anything permanent bc What If I Regret It)
so like nd people. what's y'all's opinions on tattoos.
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flyerbatyt · 2 months
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"Is he acoustic" jokes were funny until neurotypicals got their hands on it 😔😔
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system-of-a-feather · 3 months
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I think a thing that is frustrating about neurotypicals as someone with autism and auditory / language processing issues (yet to be explicitly diagnosed to my knowledge) is how little they understand neurological differences and disabilities in processing things like hearing and yet they feel like they understand it to a sufficient level.
Case in point, today at work one ofbmy coworkers got all mad and offended because I was "rude and disrespectful" because in the morning, while thinking about the things I needed to do and thought of an important question before I could start my question to ask my mentor, asked the question and she was talking and thus I interrupted her. Yes, rude now that I KNOW she was talking and so I apologize, but I really hate the implied intent or lack of caring put with the "autistic interruption" shit
Ignoring social cues and rules aside, I *literally* didn't realize / process she was talking. Of course, I'm not deaf or HoH so I can't say that because "How could I not hear her? She was speaking loud enough to know" and there is a HUGE difference between *hearing* and *processing* and so when they always give the advise of be more considerate / think before you speak or tell you the social rule to not interript cause its rude, it doesn't help like at all
Cause yes, I KNOW that and I DO think before I speak. I just *literally* didnt process her speech as speech and it was filtered as white noise.
Its like going into a busy and loud club and saying "dont speak if the guy two tables down is talking"
Like yeah, maybe I COULD hear that he is talking among the 50000 other people talking, but Im not processing him talking as distinct from the ambient noise around me.
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