19 Apr 2018, 7:40 pm
CockneyRebel
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19 Apr 2018, 7:43 pm
19 Apr 2018, 7:57 pm
19 Apr 2018, 8:25 pm
Actually, that cashier was wrong in doing that. They do things like that because they're bored. Unfortunately, the customers aren't bored and need to get going. Really, you don't need to be on the Asperger's spectrum to not be able to tell if someone is joking because so many people these days are highly inappropriate. Some of the most easy-going NT's sometimes can't tell if a person is joking or not. Real life isn't a sitcom. A lot of people in customer service simply don't understand this and need to stop watching TV. Cashiers and retail salespeople need to alleviate their boredom in ways that don't affect the customers or find work that keeps their minds occupied and their mouths shut. Sometimes even they get a customer who wants to chat and then they understand. An over-friendly customer can be scary - how do you know if they're hanging around the parking lot after shifts are done. 
20 Apr 2018, 2:01 am
Me too, as long as I don't come across as too weird since then people will see me as potential danger or trouble to their social rules and hierarchy and want to limit my freedom so that they won't have to feel uncomfortable.
20 Apr 2018, 2:34 am
20 Apr 2018, 1:27 pm
It's a type of banter but seems like half-assed humor to me.
I agree that it's often half-assed humor. I disagree that we need to have such a high standard for ourselves that we should be obligated to come back with a clever punchline.
20 Apr 2018, 3:25 pm
My colleagues have took to "getting us" with air horns. It's all a joke and everything but air horns are bloody loud and sudden. But I don't want to spoil the fun, so I just laugh along with it and pretend I don't mind loud noises.
Yes, I'm that passionate about social acceptance. 
20 Apr 2018, 11:58 pm
Me too, as long as I don't come across as too weird since then people will see me as potential danger or trouble to their social rules and hierarchy and want to limit my freedom so that they won't have to feel uncomfortable.
It's odd how NT society proclaims itself to be tough and unbreakable but easily goes into panic when something clashes with it.
21 Apr 2018, 3:29 am
Me too, as long as I don't come across as too weird since then people will see me as potential danger or trouble to their social rules and hierarchy and want to limit my freedom so that they won't have to feel uncomfortable.
It's odd how NT society proclaims itself to be tough and unbreakable but easily goes into panic when something clashes with it.
It does? Where I come from it's widely acknowledged fact by majority that nothing is more fragile than the harmony of a society. That's why hierarchies and social rules exist: to keep that extremely fragile harmony intact.
21 Apr 2018, 3:48 am
21 Apr 2018, 8:54 am
Me too, as long as I don't come across as too weird since then people will see me as potential danger or trouble to their social rules and hierarchy and want to limit my freedom so that they won't have to feel uncomfortable.
It's odd how NT society proclaims itself to be tough and unbreakable but easily goes into panic when something clashes with it.
It does? Where I come from it's widely acknowledged fact by majority that nothing is more fragile than the harmony of a society. That's why hierarchies and social rules exist: to keep that extremely fragile harmony intact.
I should've said Bible Belt NT society. When LGBT rights and representation come up, rednecks and general Bible Belters freak out with protests, especially the former despite how they claim they are "real men" who don't break under pressure and have thick skin. This happened recently at the library I work at. A display for LGBT youth books was set up and it caused even Fox News to freak out about it.
21 Apr 2018, 9:10 am
