List one NT thing you DO understand

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Exactly. Enough said.

I find it amusing that so little is understood about NTs that the thread quickly devolved into attempts at humor and was ultimately hijacked by something that is actually interesting.


Carry on!

I understand sarcasm and word play.

An interesting political analysis. You still can't put blame squarely on any one party, though, of course.

Good one. Though I often fail to know when to let up on the sarcasm. My word play gets bizarre and so non-linear I end up reinforcing my weirdness.

Frikkin' agree!

I probably killed the thread by going so far off topic.

Group mechanics

I understand "friendly" teasing, because I do that, but maybe not in a usual way, and I am very lucky the people I teased didn't just punch me sometimes because it can be really annoying (which of course I didn't realise when I was in the moment lol).

For example a guy at work that I liked (in a friendly way) and who had a french accent, I imitated his accent quite a few times, but he was really nice about it and took the teasing well, I think he understood I wouldn't have teased him if I didn't like him. When I thought about it a few years later tho, I realised it could have been perceived as very rude, I'm lucky he understood I was teasing in a friendly way, I thought it was a cute accent.

Another example, I was working at an office, and had to go to a manager's office with the other girl I worked with (we were from another department in that same company), and I was hiding behind the other girl and started imitating the sound of a chicken so the manager's secretary would think there was a chicken somewhere inside lol , it worked! she was looking around with a puzzled look in her face, saying its strange it sounds like there is a chicken inside.

Now you will all think I am totally silly probably lol

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I don't understand friendly teasing unless it's very obvious it's friendly or if I know the people very well.

I do a lot of friendly teasing myself though. In fact, I have a hard time being serious in 90% of all conversations.

I feel the same way if it is not a person I know well, and/or a person who is known to be mean, sometimes I understand it was a joke, but sometimes I have been teased by people who had bad intentions and it took me a while to realise they actually wanted to hurt my feelings.

I should have said I understand the "urge" that some people have to tease, because I enjoy teasing the people I like, and like I said I'm really lucky that guy knew that I liked him and that I was not trying to ridicule his accent, I worked with him very often and we had a friendly relationship, in fact he was 1 or the 2 people I got along with the most. There is just something about accents lol for the most part I like them, I think they are interesting.

I don't understand people from New Jersey.

I understand a lot about NTs. Aswell as being slightly different, I do have NT traits aswell

I understand why NTs don't like being humiliated in public, even after being told that ''you'll never see these people again who you've humiliated yourself in front of''. When another person with a disability says this to me, I'm like, ''yeah I know, but it's still embarrassing at the time!''

I understand how lonely it is to be on your own a lot. I was talking to an NT about is it abnormal to feel really alone when you're walking by yourself, even though you're somewhere busy, and the NT was like, ''it's not abnormal to feel that way - I don't know many people who like walking on their own. I always like to go shopping with a friend or a relative.''

I understand why they express their feelings.

Can't think of anything else, but there is more.

I tend to understand more NT humor than NTs give people with ASDs credit for.

I understand certain figurative language and I do love a bit of small talk after a long period of lonely isolation.

Couples holding hands and hugging in public when they're not going to have sex, unless it's foreplay.