do you find like you aren't effected by "weird art"

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I don't find American Horror Story or David Lynch all that weird, yet all the NeuroTypicals I know think it's so fascinating..

I believe that NT's are typically focused on vulgar, external stimuli and pompous effrontery.

Surrealism does create a sort of sensory drama, but might be considered venal, in respect to posing no problems, making no social statements, and offering no solutions, which is what we would typically expect of a good story.

But, Lynch is also credited with directing the Elephant Man story, in which Joseph Merrick's yearning to be treated like a man was satisfied by his apparent suicide. (Of which I was aware, noone literally forces him to lie on the bed, causing his asphyxiation.)

American Horror story was apparently so involved, the viewing audience did not catch on, at first, that all the seasons were interrelated.

So, I see I see a full range of expression, from simple to elaborate.

While I do not find art that most people think is "weird" or "scary" to be unusual at all, I do find it interesting because I look at it in the exact opposite manner, so I am affected, just not in the same way. I find it so beautiful. I view in a different way than the banal concept of liking something purely for "shock value". With that said, I'm an artist myself, which is probably why I can find beauty in most everything, from things such as carefully observing a spider catch it's prey and then consume it, all the way up to things that most people seem to be attracted to initially because of that "shock value".