How to get on with Neurotypicals

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I found this brilliant list on Reddit about how to get on with NTs/people. This applies to all of life, not just school:



I love the one about taking notes on who is connected to who and why. That'll stop me putting my foot in it, I hope *fingers crossed*

And the mimicking expressions. I've got that wrong so often and made an enemy because I didn't smile at the right time

I went out today and consciously fake-smiled at a few people, despite not doing eye contact.
I got home and realised I'd been wearing a face mask and my sunglasses indoors so they likely didn't know.

Whoops! Brain fart!

Your second paragraph is absolutely brilliant, and explains so much of the disdain I’ve encountered over the years.

I briefly worked with a guy back in 2010 who subsequently disclosed to me he had Aspergers. We actually got on, and he seemed pretty intelligent and ran his own business. But he did weird things.
1. He refused to sit down anywhere with his back to another person (He told me he felt paranoid)
2. He had a grandiose sense of self and when he spoke of his achievements (which were impressive) it came across as elitist like he was better than other people
3. I thought he would sympathetic about having a child on the spectrum, instead when he heard she was non-verbal (at the time) he said something rather horrible like "I'm not interested in low functioning autism" (like it triggered him or something?). I took that as a cue to avoid/leave him alone.

All three of those things were in his power to control, but he chose to be weird. That's what I mean.