09 Sep 2012, 8:44 pm
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09 Sep 2012, 8:50 pm
Sorry to hear that. Nobody's ever told that to me, however. 
09 Sep 2012, 8:55 pm
*starts stimming*
"Why are you doing that? People will think you're weird!! Stop!!"
*stops stimming, analyzes a conversation*
"You think too much!! It's not that hard to make conversation! Just act normal!!"
(repeat scenario from the top 1,000,000x 
)
09 Sep 2012, 11:51 pm
There is no such thing as "normal".
Once I was in some store with my older brother and had an obsessive-compulsive panic attack. I started doing a vocal routine to calm myself back on.
My brother: you shouldn't talk to yourself. people will think you're crazy.
Me: I am crazy. 
My brother: 
10 Sep 2012, 12:05 am
Once I was in some store with my older brother and had an obsessive-compulsive panic attack. I started doing a vocal routine to calm myself back on.
My brother: you shouldn't talk to yourself. people will think you're crazy.
Me: I am crazy.
My brother:
I agree, if there is such thing as normal I don't want to be it. I'll be bad ass.
10 Sep 2012, 12:50 am
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10 Sep 2012, 12:53 am
If "normal" is defined as NT, then...
10 Sep 2012, 12:56 am
THIS, made my night.
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10 Sep 2012, 1:00 am
THIS, made my night.
10 Sep 2012, 1:27 am
THIS, made my night.
you're welcome.
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10 Sep 2012, 7:22 am
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10 Sep 2012, 9:52 am
Isn't it beneficial to at least try to be inconspicuous?
I mean, acting 100% normal is probably nearly impossible (and it would require huge amounts of energy to keep up) but it can be archieved to an extent that people in general don't notice something "off" unless they are really close or something. And then, just say you're quirky and that usually does the trick
To give a concrete example, on anxiety, bees and wasps and stingy flying animals are really scary for me. I remember I used to run away as fast as possible from them while flailing wildly to the air, and everyone would notice and stuff. The fear hasn't gone away, but I can now just ignore it, try not to think too much about it, and wait until they go away. Feels like hell, but it doesn't attract unwanted attention.
When someone tells me I'm overanalyzing, I answer them that's just the way I do things. Sometimes overanalyzing is very useful, you know
10 Sep 2012, 10:24 am
10 Sep 2012, 3:54 pm
I mean, acting 100% normal is probably nearly impossible (and it would require huge amounts of energy to keep up) but it can be archieved to an extent that people in general don't notice something "off" unless they are really close or something. And then, just say you're quirky and that usually does the trick
To give a concrete example, on anxiety, bees and wasps and stingy flying animals are really scary for me. I remember I used to run away as fast as possible from them while flailing wildly to the air, and everyone would notice and stuff. The fear hasn't gone away, but I can now just ignore it, try not to think too much about it, and wait until they go away. Feels like hell, but it doesn't attract unwanted attention.
When someone tells me I'm overanalyzing, I answer them that's just the way I do things. Sometimes overanalyzing is very useful, you know
If this works for you, and you prefer to do things that way, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But to try to tell someone else what they can do is a very different thing.
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10 Sep 2012, 11:12 pm
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10 Sep 2012, 11:17 pm
