List an "interesting" NT behaviour

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Now that I think about it, I never use the sidewalks. I always go from point A to B in a straight line. I think you're on to something here. Do NT's really not understand the concept that line C is shorter than the combined lengths of line A and B in a triangle?

The person for whom life is a perpetual conversation. This person just continues to engage in a random, ongoing, oblivious conversation with whoever happens to be around about something that happened in college, children, medical ailments, anything in the immediate environment, anything thought that flits through the brain, and so on. I've come into the force field of people like that and it's hard to believe people can be so diverse. They say more in one hour than I have said in my entire life time. Example: One checkout woman at a bookstore saw I was buying "Peter Rabbit" and began a saga about the Velveteen Rabbit (she never noticed the difference), her son having a stuffed animal Velveteen Rabbit, the fact that he was now 13, and so on. After I left, I'm sure this continued with the next person in line, plus co-workers, and anyone else.

I'm not attacking you personally, but are you sure that aspie girls are different in this sense?

I'm wondering if Pythagoras was an aspie. LOL just joking. Even without the Pythagorean Theorem, one could easily figure out that a straight line is the shortest distance.

Walking the shortest distance is not everybody's goal. I enjoy walking. It's fun and good exercise also. I do not try to make my walking experience shorter with shortcuts unless it's raining or very cold. I am well aware that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points but walking a straight line in order to walk the shortest distance isn't something I value.

I usually take the diagonal route, but I will stay to pathways if it involves someones yard. When it comes to businesses, schools, fields, etc...I just tramp on through.

One behavior that I don't understand is females going to the washroom in groups. I have trouble enough using a toilet that's not mine, let alone surrounded by a group of people.

- Using the word "world" when they are referring exclusively to people.

- Thinking that when X doesn't do what they expected X to do, there's something wrong with X and not with their expectation of X.

- Talking about laws, hierarchies, national borders, money etc. etc. as if these things are physically real.

- Believing that lines painted on the road are uncrossable.

- Wearing clothes in bed under blankets that offer plenty enough warmth.

- Being a bit daft with regard to anything other than social stuff.
(My wife's co-worker, pointing up into the sky: "Look how bright the moon is shining!" My wife: "That's the sun...")

Things I don't get:

NT women will wear high heel shoes that are painful and difficult to walk in just because of their aesthetic appeal.

NTs follow social hierarchies without question even when those who are on the top are sexually abusive clergy. They will even forgive those on top of the hierarchy then blame the victim.

NTs love to talk about absolutely nothing.

NTs just can't tell someone they're romantically interested. They have to go by complicated and convoluted rituals and games just to have a relationship.

NTs will punish people for being different more brutally than those who actually hurt others.

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I think that's a little more than "a bit daft."

Generally, when a person goes through all the trouble of installing a walking path, then there's typically a reason they want you to walk there and not somewhere else. I can't imagine being so rude as to trespass into someone's yard or crush the flower bed in front of a local business without a good reason.

And, as Janissy already said, some of us enjoy walking. Pythagoras can kiss my a$$.

multitasking

I was sitting eating lunch the other day, and I usually like to people watch when I'm done eating. I saw four chatty girls playing cards and gossiping at the same time. Not only were they talking amongst each other, but they also were IMing on their laptops and texting with their phones. These girls were doing all four things simultaneously while sitting in a noisy cafeteria.

When I see people doing things that I'm not capable of, I'm simply fascinated.

There are the more rebellious NTs who'll more than likely will "break the rules". Judging from the amount of shortcut paths I see in the grass all over the place, I'm pretty sure there's a lot of NTs who "break the rules".

Also, it's funny that there's the implication that aspies will "break the rules" when advantageous, when aspies rigidly stick to rules like XFilesGeek. Do some of those with a more severe form of aspergers don't recognize 'the rule' in the first place?

Personally, I'll break the rule when the difference in distance is greater than ... 10 feet or so, but if the path deviates from the "shortest distance path" by a little, I have no trouble following it.

About the grass treading and sidewalks: Wouldn't Aspies rather stay on the sidewalk obstinately because of their sometimes compulsive rule following?

This is a good thread, it brings to light some of the inner thinking of the Aspie mind. This thread is a good example of social cues and social boundaries that many Aspies completely miss.

In regards to your question, it would seem that Aspies miss the social cues that there are social rules about how one walks on the side walk.

Is there anybody from Korea or Japan on this board. Side-walk walking rules are probably more explicit in those countries due to their high population densities, I'm assuming. Do Aspies in high density population get the social rules about walking etiquette better than others?

There are no social cues connected with knowing that you don't walk on grass. Also, I don't want to get my shoes dirty.

There's a difference between walking on grass as a shorter distance and walking through someone's property. I was referring specifically to public property.