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Mushy food. Slimy food. Food with a slop-like texture, where you don't even need to bother opening your jaws - let alone chew. It would all just suck between your teeth.

Wet, rainy summers

I've started purposely walking into people in the street when they're not paying attention to what's going on around them, because they're looking at their phones

It peeves me why people can't put their phones away even in the safety of other people

Everyone wants to be right

I find this annoying too. Walking with one's phone out in public should be frowned upon.

It is just unnecessary to be scrolling the internet in public, oblivious to one's surroundings.

An important phone call is okay, but scrolling the internet in public, really?

There's a guy round our way who reads a book whilst walking down the street

Maybe it's some kind of coping mechanism

I'd be walking into lampposts if it was me

That sort of person is most likely to do something just like that... or bump into someone else, or force others to walk around them.

Maybe he's got eyes on top of his head like a frog

What really makes me laugh in this respect is when walking home of an evening I see guys in the bars, enjoying each others company (presumably…) but, instead of talking to each other, they are all intently staring at their phones, hoping for a message!

I know

There's definitely a case to be made for going out alone these days

Necroposting 12-year-old threads on outdated topics. All new members should really be reminded about this and to only bump old threads if they're still going to be of value today. Some threads (like this one) are timeless and fun, so it doesn't matter if bumped. But some thread topics died a natural death like a decade ago and wouldn't serve any value today. For example, a thread in 2010 asking advice on what college classes they should take, then 15 years later a newbie comes and bumps it responding with "I think you should take the classes, good luck!" - even though the OP of the thread hasn't posted in like over a decade and if he or she was still here they've probably graduated from college a long time ago and have most likely forgotten about it.

When you say something on a forum and someone has to be a smartass about it.

Like for example, when an OP is complaining about the subject of their thread changing on to an unrelated topic, and they give an example like "my topic is supposed to be about pineapples but you are all talking about kings, what gives?" and then someone responds like "pineapples and kings are kinda related, like if a king likes eating pineapples". Ugh, it just makes you sigh, and then they tell you to get a sense of humour - without respecting that sometimes it isn't the right time to tell a joke and it can just be seen as obnoxious.

When some Aspies online (not here specifically) think that socialising is a script and the rules are very precise?

Me: Why did my partner not want to listen when he told me a piece of gossip and I wanted to elaborate on it?
Advice on an autism site: Oh maybe he only wanted to say about the gossip and not want it to become a conversation. You have to read NTs minds through facial expressions. If there are two creases above their eyes instead of one then that facial expression means they don't want a conversation on a subject they just brought up.

Um, okay. Kinda contradicts the following though:-

Me: Whenever my aunt phones and asks me what I've been doing today and I haven't really done anything, I always reply with "nothing much", which actually means "nothing to really chat about, just this and that", and then she's like "nothing? So you've just been sitting in one place staring into space all day? You must have done something!" So then I feel I have to rack my brains trying to think of what I've done: ..."um, made a sandwich...done some colouring in...stroked my pets..." Usually when people say they done nothing I just automatically know that it means they've just been at home chilling.
Advice on an autism site: Oh NTs love to turn anything into a conversation no matter what, so you just have to give them that, it's a bit rude not to

Ugh, why is the Aspie always wrong in every situation even if we are doing it all by the book? It's the main thing I f*****g hate about being on the sh***y spectrum. And it's no good saying "it's because NTs are the majority" because then that just makes me feel inferior, and that still doesn't mean that I can't even do things right. I think the real reason to this is that others on the spectrum just like to do post mortems on the Aspie party, accusing them of missing a social cue that doesn't really exist in the NT world.

So that is why I don't discuss social errors on autism sites any more. It's either one extreme or the other: "NT is right, you are wrong, you inept, unskilled, incompetent, stupid little Aspie" or "all the NTs in your life are abusive narcissists, distance yourself from them!"

Hollywood needs to stop making shark attack movies. We all know that sharks aren't really dangerous if you know what to do. They only attack out of misunderstanding. They Don't have any interest in eating humans otherwise.

People who write long posts and don't space out their paragraphs. People do this on Reddit all the time and if it's this long thing that's not spaced out I won't read it.