Treat NTs as a different culture

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Because they have all these social and body language rules thinking like this will make it easier to deal with them.

I clicked this expecting a interesting, clever post. Since it was a clever thought.

One liner..

Since there is no evidence, I will have to disagree. Because other cultures are easy to get along with.

Last edited by Nim on 16 Mar 2012, 2:12 am, edited 1 time in total.

So I should TRY to alienate my self from 98% of the population? sure...

interacting with different cultures feels easier. But there is no way that the whole planet is going to make a distinction between nt and aspie. The reason its easier is because the culture difference is immediatly obvious from apearance and/or language/accent. Which then triggers a switch for people to not be so judgemental of differences, which smoothes the entire interaction. I find it so pleasant interacting with people from different countries.

My main reason would be that a lot of NTs seem to think it weird that I am interested in things for inherent qualities rather than things that are considered "useful".


I do find it difficult as well, but the way I feel with most NTs is as if they are from a very different culture. I have no problem with other cultures because different cultures are interesting, but the "NT world" does not seem to welcome me all that much.

This.

I wouldn't mind alienating myself from 98% of the population - don't care whether they are Mr. NT or whoever.

I don't treat NTs as a different culture. It's funny, because in a lot of ways I feel the same as other people, it's just some ways where I think in a very strange way to them.

I described how I relate to people to a friend who does a lot of traveling, and she told me I interact with just about everyone as if they were from a different culture. So, it's what I do, without any explicit intention to do so.

I like to give everybody a chance at least once. If it works out, I become friends with the person. If not, oh well. I don't believe in separate cultures.

What I don't get and probably never will is why they seem so determined to communicate with their eyes, body and movements instead of just saying stuff. As a species, we're supposed to have a 1-up over animals because we can talk yet we try to communicate with non-verbal BS like it matters.

After a while you start to learn their ways but it's annoying sometimes when they tell you stuff in conversations and you have nothing to say but they assume that you don't know what they're talking about because you didn't say anything.

Little things like that, that NTs do is pretty annoying.

Yeah, I guess it's unconscious. This is why I find life exciting. Nothing is obvious to me. Only some things...

I've experienced this as well.

I try to treat them as a differend culture but they always dissapoint me when I do that because I treat them as equal and they dont . So now I view them as people of lower function ( with my world) ! !! I quess it works ....when I join their stupidity they think I become normal ....they will never figure me out ( not because I'm weird but because they are not so abled as they think)

I'm not really sure what you mean by that tbh. In a way people with AS are like another culture, in the way that all cultures have their own kinds of body language, gestures and expressions and can find it difficult to adapt to another. But I'm not really sure what you mean by "treat NT's like a different culture", I treat everyone the same regardless of culture so I don't really understand the comment...

I try not to seperate myself from NTs, because I am human just like anybody else, so why should I put myself into a position that alienates me from my friends and family?