THINGS NT'S DO THAT JUST DON'T MAKE SENSE!

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Thanks to everybody who supported me in this thread. I have posted the entire list in Random Discussion, and with a slightly modified title and disclaimer.

I doubt that nurseangela will be back. There are just too many people who stand together and point out her mistaken claims.

Otherwise, her behavior just don't make sense!

"I say we all hold hands and have one last midnight as brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal. "

-Rust Cohle

What deal?

Here's one that I cannot seem to understand or grasp. Making obligations with other people beforehand.

How hard is it to say, "Hey I am sorry I have prior engagements with The Bad Guy," instead of forcing me to rearrange our plans for the day?

I don't understand why some NT's insist on talking when there's nothing important to be said. I used to be a cashier and having to participate in small talk over and over again was the worst thing about it. I wasn't crazy about dress code, either. I couldn't understand how leaving my shirt untucked or wearing a hoodie with words on it prevented me from doing my job. Needless to say, I wasn't a model employee back then.

Disclaimer: This is something that an NT(Neurotypical) has done and is not done by the majority of the neurotypical population.(or at least I hope it's not), I have included this due to the great amazement and bewilderment (as well as confusion) that resulted from the particular NT's actions.


My Occupational Therapist (Assisting me with my Tactile sensitivities) once "played dress up" and pretended to be Neurodiverse for just over 15mins before he realised that I knew he was neurotypical. The particular Occupational therapist in question put on a checkered shirt, overalls and the weirdest glasses. He also done a "voice" that I can only describe as "Funny".

When he started to tell me that he was "different" I momentarily lost control over my emotions at which point he must have realised that I knew he was neurotypical because he started talking in his normal voice, He also stoped his pretend stimming, anyway he now wears a suit and has settled for "jerking" the car steering wheel while driving with the car gears up to high(so that the car "thumps"), He has tried to explain away the "thumping" clearly caused by the car gears being set to high by lying and saying the following.
Him: "It is caused by the torque converter" Me: "Torque Converter?" Him: "Yeah the metal spiral that sits in the roof of the car" Me: "Sure"

Overseer: the person was being really stupid.

I don't think he/she meant harm. I just think he was trying to teach you some sort of lesson pertaining to "perception." He wanted you to be put in the "neurotypical" shoes, so to speak.

Very misguided, though.

Sometimes it feels like they are attaching extra assumptions to every straw they can possibly grasp. It can be tiresome never being on the same page. Maybe this is, in part, how most people compensate for not using very precise grammar and vocabulary.

As strange as it might sound, when I'm reading a physics paper, for example, I think I can somehow empathize better because the authors and myself are very much on the same page about their material (the syntax is painstakingly clear), and I feel the same wonderment for their conclusions and the subject as I imagine they feel. That I can understand, and so far as I know, part of what I am feeling is empathy. But when I'm in an argument with someone, and they seem to be twisting my words before all of them are even out of my mouth, I just don't know how to empathize. I don't know how or why they are in whatever mental state they are in, and the general carelessness with which they think is an irritant.

Over time I've become better at not letting this on, and I've become better at feeling for people, although probably not with people. This I do in spite of this natural response of irritation, and there is a certain amount of guilt that I would condescend to them in my internal dialogue at that moment.

They assume that a general comment made in an unrelated conversation somehow applies to them.

They are racist with lies. What makes a white lie better than a black one?

I was joking.

They have a strange distrust of logic. Any reasoning involving more than one or two deductive steps looks unreliable to them and they will fall back to their prejudices or "gut feeling", which they deem much more trustworthy, always with a socially acceptable fallacious answer to make it look like you are the one being irrational. If you're lucky, you may be able to get them to agree you can make two by putting one and one together, but you won't convince them you can reach a thousand by adding ones. They just don't see it, so you're laughably wrong, and you'll probably be accused of trying to shove your mere opinion down their throats.

Once, a classmate asked me what week day a certain day of that month was, less than a week in the future. I didn't remember, but it was easy enough to count the days to find out, so I started doing it aloud. He immediately took it as a sign that he wouldn't get a reliable answer from me, so, before I could finish, he stopped paying attention and went ask someone else.

They probably believe the solution to any math, physics or chemistry problem depends solely on the teacher's whim, and necessarily so, as there's no such thing as facts or logical truths; only opinions. Facts are the opinions of the one in charge, and that's all. Therefore, if you get all the answers right, you must have cheated or be the teacher's sycophant.