100 Incomprehensible NT expectations

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07 Mar 2011, 9:01 pm

Let me start this off

1. My mom expecting me to care how I look to the extent that she does

2. My mom's heterosexism.

3. My mom expecting me to conform to my gender (knowing how to cook, ect.)

4. My mom expecting me to involve marriage in my life.

5. My mom expecting me to have kids later on.

6. My mom expecting me to be social.

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07 Mar 2011, 9:08 pm

7: Your mom expecting you to not make lists of complaints about your mom

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07 Mar 2011, 9:15 pm

Clever, Ikonovich, clever....

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07 Mar 2011, 9:30 pm

8. The expectation to not have any mental disorder.

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07 Mar 2011, 9:33 pm

9. People, mostly parents, expecting you to dress a certain way.

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07 Mar 2011, 9:38 pm

10. Your mom expecting you to do perfectly well in school, go to college, and get a job, and never complain, even though you incapable of doing any of that.

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07 Mar 2011, 9:47 pm

11. The expectation that you will go along with a big lie just for the sake of facilitating social harmony.

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07 Mar 2011, 9:55 pm

tomboywriter101 wrote:

Clever, Ikonovich, clever....

Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.

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07 Mar 2011, 10:45 pm

12. That everyone has a low tolerance to pain.

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07 Mar 2011, 10:49 pm

13. Trying to follow advice from books *that are written for NTs* about how to ace interviews and get and keep jobs. Utter gibberish.

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07 Mar 2011, 10:54 pm

14. The idea that it's better for everyone to pretend to like things they don't and people they don't and to pretend to be happy when actually very uncomfortable than to tell the truth and risk that someone might feel a little awkward for a minute.

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08 Mar 2011, 12:13 am

15.To gossip and socialize at family gatherings....even at a funeral!

16. To know when to talk about which topic and when to stop

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08 Mar 2011, 12:15 am

I like these numbered lists...these are fun

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08 Mar 2011, 2:30 am

17. To be ashamed of my sons autism when i think it is exciting.

18. To not comment on everyone's height.

19. to enjoy shopping.

20. To dress like a girl.

21. to not ask in depth questions on your degree to lecturers that they don't know the answer to when you are a first year.

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08 Mar 2011, 2:46 am

22. That people have to behave in certain ways just because they have certain bodyparts between their legs

23. That the rules of propriety are somehow encoded in our DNA so that behaving rude is always intentional

24. That I can read minds like the rest of NTkind

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08 Mar 2011, 2:56 am

25. my mom expecting me to know when something will offend her

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