DiscardedWhisper wrote:
I hate NTs because they all seem to hate me. I stopped trying to decipher the reasons years ago, pokes holes in one and they'll fabricate another. That or they'll just call you a ret*d, or some other idiotic ad hominem.
This is probably the gazillionth time I'm linking this, but I recommend reading this to anyone. It will explain everything:
http://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Earth ... B004EPYUV2
Here's a few things from the book that might explain why they seem to hate you:
1. If you say anything, the NTs tend to hear it related to their beliefs and influence first, rather than literally. For example, if you say that production fails because a setting in the machine is wrong, they might hear it as "it's your fault, you moron".
2. You don't communicate via cultural symbols like the NTs do. This means that you cannot manipulate the belief systems of them. Since they do this to each other all the time because they always compete for rank, they might come to the general consensus that you are the cause of all the problems.
And they could also be annoyed by your possible limitations such as sensitivity to noise, difficulties in following verbal instructions, difficulties in doing many things at the same time and so on.
Overall, this tends to lead into a lot of misinterpretations.
I will probably try to concentrate on hanging out with other Aspies/Auties since we seem to be neurologically so fundamentally different from the NTs. I don't think that masking yourself full of NT behaviors is a very good idea either. Not only would you lose touch with your autistic identity, but we could never compete in their terms successfully in long term because our brains are simply not "made" for their kind of socializing, no matter how much we try to mask ourselves with their social skills (even though the line between basic courtesy (we can be offended too) and specific NT behaviors is always not clear).
05 Sep 2012, 7:47 am
