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07 Mar 2011, 4:01 am

86. Start talking about your special interest and after 15 minutes or so (depending on how polite they're trying to be) when they finally realize you're not going to stop talking any time soon and start trying to walk away, follow them and keep talking.



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07 Mar 2011, 4:32 am

87. Wear the same outfit for two days.
88. Shower less than once a day.
89. Copy the noises they make.



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07 Mar 2011, 5:57 am

90. If they know that you're an Aspie and treat you according to the textbook symptoms, astound them with the use of sarcasm and/or clever metaphor

91. Sing the same two lines of one song over and over again


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07 Mar 2011, 6:45 am

92. Offer to help an NT with a task.
When they refuse and struggle, do it right in front of them, with more precision and quickness.
93. Share your innovative ideas. Prove they work.
94. Contemplate social reciprocation and don't follow through. Bonus: Feel exhausted from the effort.
95. Don't speak. Or listen.
96. Point at the scoreboard.
97. Point at your grade.
98. If you're in a hurry, point at your watch.
99. Appear to be less affluent than you are.
100. Be happier than anyone thinks you should.



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07 Mar 2011, 7:17 am

aFiendishThingy wrote:
31. Be stubbornly convinced that NTs are all shallow, stupid, mindless, ridiculous creatures [or that they're incapable of any and all mental activity not concerning facebook, fashion, or the overscrutinized lives of airheaded celebrities] and all have attitudes and minds similar to those you might see on freaking Jersey Shore or something.


I imagine that is pretty annoying.


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07 Mar 2011, 7:17 am

101. Smile when they think you have no reason to, don't smile when they think it is appropriate
102. Speak loudly in the phone in your workplace
103. Do not take special effort to force yourself in less mechanic, more intuitive activities/tasks.
104. Assume NTs think/work/feel the same way than you.



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07 Mar 2011, 8:35 am

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28. Don't use tact, because you did not realize it was necessary


I find tact is necessary almost all the time. People's feelings and egos are fragile, fragile eggs.


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07 Mar 2011, 8:52 am

105. Hum an ice cream truck song, over and over again.
106. Repeat the slogan of a radio station over and over again.
107. Watch an entire boxed set of your favourite TV show at once, in their living room.
108. Say a long chant about your favourite male or female body part, for 30 minutes.
109. Mock them when they say something in a sarcastic tone.
110. Demand that they look away when they're talking to you.
111. Hold a grudge against them when they respond in a cold way to the death of a member of a rock band that happens to be your special interest.
112. Only use Facebook to wish the members of your favourite rock band a Happy Birthday and only for that purpose.
113. Wear nothing but your favourite colour for the entire week that you visit them.
114. Cook them your favourite meal every night of the week that you visit them.
115. Wear your hair like a man if you're a woman.
116. Grow your hair if you're a man.
117. Go to your NT mum's place dressed the way that your favourite member of your favourite band dressed when the band was the most popular, no matter what decade that was.
118. Don't live for today in the present, live in your favourite era instead.


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07 Mar 2011, 11:13 am

119. Worry about trivial things

120. Humiliate yourself in public when you're with an NT relative or friend. (NTs are afraid of humiliation!)


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07 Mar 2011, 11:32 am

121. Make sense.


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08 Mar 2011, 12:58 am

Joe90 wrote:
120. Humiliate yourself in public when you're with an NT relative or friend. (NTs are afraid of humiliation!)


+1 :D



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08 Mar 2011, 1:53 am

122) Take a back scratcher that is shaped like a hand and grab people in the crotch from behind. (I used to do this a lot and I can never understand why it's such a big deal and embarrassing but it's been a few years since I've done it since I haven't seen another one of those)

123) Ask tons of questions

124) Quote lines out of your favorite move and recite the parts

125) Pace back and forth or around the room

126) Rock back and forth

127) Have no desire for friends

128) Not saying a word in social situations and going off in your world

129) Play your Nintendo DS at the table during a meal (yes this has actually bothered people)

130) Play your Wario Ware Touched game and play those microgames that make you blow into your microphone on your DS (This actually bothered my mother so I left the table)

131) Leave the conversation when it changes to something boring from something interesting

132) Wear earplugs out in public

133) Miss their sarcasm and take all their comments/questions literally

134) Don't listen to peoples point of views

135) Keep arguing with them until they change their opinion to yours

136) Watch the same movie over and over

137) Play a bunch of kid songs and comedies in the car with them

138) Reject hugs

139) Say "sorry" all the time

140) Eat the same foods and refuse something different



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08 Mar 2011, 11:39 am

Locustman wrote:
121. Make sense.
Hah, that's goood. :lol:


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08 Mar 2011, 11:39 am

123. Walk away when they use bad grammar.

124. Show them your Depends after they say that Depends are gross.

125. Show up early for everything.

126. Dye your hair your favourite colour and spike it for 2 and a half years.


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08 Mar 2011, 1:01 pm

127. Ask them lots of questions.

128. Refuse to change who you are

129. Persist in whatever you do.

130. Pay no attention to 'social rules'.


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08 Mar 2011, 1:26 pm

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130. Pay no attention to 'social rules'.


131. Try to convince them that social rules are by and large arbitrary and most of the meaning they ascribe to those rules is actually meaningless.


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