People Who Put On A Show

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Speaking of texting, do you ever watch them to see how many people they bump into or how many cars they walk in front of or how many poles they walk into or if they ever fall down?


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walking outside can be scary for me, It's nice to be walking alone talking to someone whos a comfort from me It distracts me from the fact I am outside alone around a bunch of people I don't know.

As convenient as ear dildos are, this is one of my few real problems with them. The way people are so self absorbed with them that even the shortest walk is made into an ordeal.

How many hundreds of Aspies do you know who would just love to be able to interact with other people but simply cannot make it work because of our AS. And here are these NTs who can interact with ease but they intentionally snub other people in order to enhance their own self-image. There is a word or that beginning with the letter 'A'... and it is not "Aspie".



Perhaps you can ask Brian Williams that question.

Chill out and go play with your ear dildo.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving all.

If I didn't text I'd never talk to my adult kids. If someone ever hits me while driving with a cell phone it will be a dildo. Rude, rude, rude.

In answer to your first quote, there are a lot of us who would love to be able to but can't. However, that does not make someone else's avoidance of others a snub. Your perception of it does not change someone else's intent. If I pretend to have a phone conversation to avoid talking to the chatty lady I see coming my way, that does not mean I am snubbing her, nor does it mean I'm doing it to improve my own self image. If I were to do that it would probably be done because I don't find anything she says interesting, or I'm in a hurry, or I just don't feel like talking.

Now, which is the so called snub? Talking on the phone or pretending to talk on the phone? When is it done to improve self image and when is it really needed to be done? Why won't you answer any of the other questions I put to you?

I honestly think it's more along the lines of "I don't talk to a lot of people on my cell phone and I wish I did so I'm jealous that other people do and I feel that they are rubbing it in". That may not be the case, but that's the vibe I get from you.

Now, if you are upset that some NT's talk on the phone in public (and some aspies too - I talk on mine in public) because some aspies don't have friends, then wouldn't it be logical to carry it further and say that it's rude/wrong/done to enhance self image for someone to mention a bf/gf/spouse/signifigant other in public because some aspies want one and can't get one? Shouldn't we go even further and apply that to everyone? Maybe we should say that people who can walk are snubbing those in wheelchairs by walking in public.

As to your second quote, that wasn't even a valid answer. You said you see the phony conversations all the time, and I asked how you know you see phony conversations. How do you know they aren't real? I'm assuming that the news story used a survey. They asked a group of cell phone users how often they pretended to have a conversation to avoid someone and they based their percentage on that. That, in no way, gives you any idea of whether or not a particular person is really on the phone, or faking it, so you saying that you see this all the time, without telling anyone how you know it's real or not, is invalid.

Apparantly you know your statement is invalid and that's why you gave me a childish answer.

Frances