Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road... Round 2

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I posted this analogy one time before within the last year, but have added so much to the original two sentences in connection with a much longer email I am now writing that I thought it was worth a rerun. Have a good laugh, everybody. There seems to be a lot of truth in this.

An Aspie is the chicken who crossed the road to get to the other side. A neurotypical is the chicken who crossed the road for the prestige involved in hoping that his fellow chickens will think he has been hobnobbing with the chickens on the other side. Furthermore, the neurotypical chickens will insist on reading between the lines, finding all kinds of hidden intent in the Aspie chicken's actions where none exists at all. They will speculate that the Aspie chicken has a lover on the other side and thus is unavailable to them, but is just being very cool about it even though they have no interest in the Aspie chicken to begin with. They will spread such stories as indisputable fact to all of the other chickens, who in turn will gossip about, avoid and look strangely at the Aspie chicken. This will only annoy, frustrate and alienate the Aspie chicken, leaving him feeling even more isolated and alone than he was to begin with. Meanwhile back at the chicken house, the neurotypical chickens are busy cackling and flapping their beaks as they assign all kinds of hidden intent and motives to the Aspie chicken's actions, simply because that is what they themselves do. The fact that Aspie chicken doesn't react as they expect in showing off great enthusiasm over his many exploits convinces them even further that the Aspie chicken must certainly be hiding something. This only fuels the frenzy. They snicker and will not speak to the Aspie chicken and will not ask him why he crossed the road because they are absolutely convinced that they already know the reasons why. But the Aspie chicken only crossed the road to get to the other side. The Aspie chicken is frustrated that the neurotypical chickens will not listen to him so he waves them off as totally impossible to reach and then walks away in silence while mumbling and grumbling to himself about it all as he deems NT chickens totally incapable of understanding the simple fact that any chicken just might cross the road just to get to the other side.