Things that upset NT's but not Aspies?

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11 Jan 2012, 12:49 pm

Hi there,

As an Aspie, are there any things that NT's get upset about but not Aspie's?

For me I am a sexually liberal person who supports LGBT movements and interracial dating and marriage. I also have no problem talking about sex or sexual oritenation, and can take honesty very well.

Are there anythings that Aspies have an easier time talking about than nt's (besides our interests)

For me the big issue that NT's get offended easily is weight. I have no problem admitting how much I weigh but NT's get offended if I ask or mention it.
If you are fat that's fine. Everyone is a different weight but topics like that upset NT's and I can't seem to figure out why?



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11 Jan 2012, 12:52 pm

To me, yelling doesn't upset me, unless I don't like what they're saying.



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11 Jan 2012, 12:56 pm

Um, that's another problem with me - I worry about the same things what NTs worry about AND all the other stuff what I worry about what NTs wouldn't so much.


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11 Jan 2012, 1:37 pm

OP, I'm quite open talking about sexual stuff too, but plenty of Aspies are shy about it and plenty of NTs are open about it, so I don't think it's related to AS. Me and my NT friend at college talk about that stuff all the time :P



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11 Jan 2012, 1:45 pm

How big is your vagina?

I like big vaginas on a woman



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11 Jan 2012, 1:46 pm

Surfman wrote:
How big is your vagina?

I like big vaginas on a woman


I have really good response to this but I just realised I'm not in the adult section, goddamn.



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11 Jan 2012, 2:16 pm

Surfman wrote:
How big is your vagina?

I like big vaginas on a woman


I don't think you can compare the size of a vagina, like you would the size of a someone's shlong.

But I'm guessing my vagina would be small because I've never had sex or given birth. My breasts are impressive though lol



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11 Jan 2012, 2:33 pm

For me it's pretty random. Like, NTs while I'm driving will get mad at things I don't get mad about, and take completely in stride. Like, an example would be, one guy, who's I guess...super "NT" in the personality type or whatever, was driving with me, and got super pissed at some pedestrians going out in the street while I was driving in the city, and me, I had no emotional reaction at all.

In general, I can handle utter crisis situations MUCH better than the average person, just the changes and whatever of normal life, like right now, for example, I moved to another house and my sister's friend is living with us, "small" changes like that make me much worse emotionally. But, to put it to contrast, while the rest of the state was flipping out because we lost power for like 4 days in October, I felt awesome and took it almost completely in stride. The only time I got emotionally a bit bad was when I felt like I was getting sick, which meant I couldn't do anything and my family can't like, figure out how to do anything for themselves, but thankfully I didn't get sick, so yeah. But yeah, rest of the world was flipping out and anxious, I took it awesome.

So, maybe not quite what you were looking for, for an answer, but yeah. The crisis situations that make most normal people anxious or angry or whatever tend to not do that at all for me, I go into more or less a crisis mode and and can just completely take charge of a situation and not worry. Just, when my "routine" gets messed up, not talking like, really small stupid things, but just my general routine, it's when I get mad, I'm very bad at "going with the flow" and I have to plan everything out, and due to that, if other people screw up my plans or want to do something different, it makes me mad. But, the paradigm is, in crisis situations, I have so much contingency planning going on, either steps I've taken, or I've reenacted roughly pretty much everything like that in my head, so since nobody else around me has ANY planning for things like that, I excel because I do.



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11 Jan 2012, 3:10 pm

I've gotten into trouble for talking about sex so openly. A lot of people think I'm some kind of horndog because of it, but the truth is that I think and care about sex a lot less than they do.



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11 Jan 2012, 3:30 pm

When I have managed to make friends, one reason they said they liked me was because they could talk to me about anything. Which most people can, I don't get easily offended. The only time I really get offended by anything anyone says if they are bullying me or are being intentionally nasty, but that seems to be limited to a group of a few people who take a dislike to me now and again.



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11 Jan 2012, 3:43 pm

This question is bunk, NT's can be just as if not more open about these topics and visa versa.


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11 Jan 2012, 3:46 pm

bumble wrote:
Which most people can, I don't get easily offended.

Same. I'm only offended if something offends me ideologically, like cruelty to others.


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11 Jan 2012, 3:51 pm

Phonic wrote:
This question is bunk, NT's can be just as if not more open about these topics and visa versa.


not really actually, some can, and they may have asd's themselves, many do

Social conventions include suitable discussion topics and we are way ahead of NT's in liberal agendas as we are not bound by social conventions to the same degree.... we are actually, but we either dont know or aspies dont care...........

Phonic, you replied aggressively and inaccurately to my own comments a few times before

I really think you should think twice before attacking people unfairly



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11 Jan 2012, 5:01 pm

Not specific topics, but small inexplicable things seem to upset NTs. To NTs, small inexplicable things also upset autistics, except for the double standard that applies, i.e. small inexplicable upsets are upsetting for NTs, who have a right to feel and act upset, while small inexplicable upsets are inexplicable for autistics, who have no right to feel and act upset at things that don't upset NTs, things like things beyond the limits of NT sensory perception and therefore don't exist for anyone.



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11 Jan 2012, 5:32 pm

I had a meltdown the other day because of finding out that I am the only virgin left in the family. Is that something what NTs typically worry about and Aspies not?

If it is, then my mum can't be NT because she doesn't seem to know why the hell I get so upset about being a virgin.


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11 Jan 2012, 5:51 pm

btbnnyr wrote:
Not specific topics, but small inexplicable things seem to upset NTs. To NTs, small inexplicable things also upset autistics, except for the double standard that applies, i.e. small inexplicable upsets are upsetting for NTs, who have a right to feel and act upset, while small inexplicable upsets are inexplicable for autistics, who have no right to feel and act upset at things that don't upset NTs, things like things beyond the limits of NT sensory perception and therefore don't exist for anyone.


I agree with that. Like my example with the pedestrians in the road, doesn't make me mad. But then my routine will be messed up in some small way, and I'll be like pissed for the rest of the day, both are pretty trivial and inexplicable, but since the majority rules, everyone else can get inexplicably upset over nothing, then when I get upset once, people think it's the end of the world.