techstepgenr8tion wrote:
I'm about an hour in and the big thing that the guest (interviewee with Asperger's) was focusing a lot is that NT's drape a narrative over your appearance, your demeanor, they're trying to pin down social class, they're trying to be pin down what can be made of you or what can be done with you, and if they can't peg you in their archetypal system or they can't peg you by your parents identity or some other proxy you end up getting ignored because you can't be slotted.
His take away, seems to be so far, that somehow in his high school years certain intangibles took off that didn't even really match how he was raised well (ie. from an upper class family, wayward daughter who ended up getting into crime, he himself is half black but raised by his grand parents and noticing that in high school he's getting automatically positive reactions from upper class people and almost automatic abreactions from lower-class people, he's not overtly saying it but it's a bit like people are seeing his grandfather's genes in him before they're seeing everything else).
edit: an hour and a half in - he gets yanked into Sigma Kai for having the right 'look' (gets kicked out as a pledge for falling out with someone in the fraternity). More of the above.
I'm in the last few minutes - he took a good our breakaway from the subject to talk about Pope Alexander VI and movement from Kardashev 0 to Kardashev 1.
Main take away?
Are you autistic? Are you multiracial? Do you look like PB Randolph? If yes to the third question you can erase the first two. At least two hours of it was him talking about getting jammed in positions he wasn't qualified for and people trying to make it work no matter what.
I'm happy for him to the degree it's given him opportunities but it rhymes with the fixations I've noticed the NT world has - ie. they either really like you or they really don't and either way it's undesired that you'd try to prove them wrong by personal merit. This might not be as pronounced all the time but - I've enjoyed some of this 'split' reception as well although I don't know if I can as easily break it down on socioeconomic likes, more like people who are playing the 'infinite game' or trying to tend to like me, Machiavellian types historically have really tended not to.
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