1001 Things Not To Do Around NTs...

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Yes, I went through the whole thread to count and verify that this was #42

The poster called "DentArthurDent" should have caught this one.

I think out of those things I have the tendency to tend, and also flight, from the guy's list...

Anyway. I fully defend my right to pace, and if anyone objects I will simply walk in circles or rhombuses around them.

As did I!
Rhombus!! !
Excuse me, I have to go whisper "rhombus" for a bit.

43. Try not to whisper rhombus to yourself where NTs can hear you

Yes refusing alcohol and ordering a tea and carrot sticks in a bar really freaks them out.

I generally agree too, as I stopped trying to pretend to be normal a long time ago. I failed at it anyhow.


Don't let your mind make inane connections to things - or at least don't say them out loud.
IE:
Random person: *Mentions waffles*
Me: *Starts singing the "Do You Like Waffles?" song*

Would someone please define the term normal. I don't think even NTs are always able to fit that standard.

I am also 50% NT, and I am starting to feel the prejudice here.

And to take your illustration, if you started singing a "Do you like Waffles?" song after I or someone mentioned some waffles attribute, I would chalk that up as evidence of the type of memory you have; a memory where everything is interconnected along associations. And I would be delighted to discover that in you because since my memory works the same way, I would have a way to relate to you. And if I am very lucky I might accidentally find a way to put a smile on your face.

Last edited by willmark on 30 Jul 2009, 8:46 am, edited 1 time in total.

Before visiting this forum it would not have occurred to me that repeating a word might be a form of stiming. I too enjoy pronouncing certain words because they feel good when I pronounce them, but it would never have occurred to me to repeat them more than two or three times while I am thinking about the word. Words have a way of not staying in my head very long. Maybe that is why I have never stimmed this way.

I love the fact that people love the word so much. Now Im glad I didnt put parellelogram, or trapezoid.

Trapezoid is a good one.
Especially when one likes circus.

Can't define it. Did say I failed at it. All I can say about it really, is that it's an "us VS them" type of thing, where "us" is the majority, and "them" is a person or group of people that don't fit into the perceived majority for whatever reason.

Prejudice? I thought this thread was all in good fun.

Well it's cool of you to think that way. But many people, the so-called "normals", don't. And they would be annoyed and/or disturbed to have me burst out into the waffles song. Some of them would even forget they said something about waffles, and thus would think my singing was completely random.



Anyhow. To go back on topic here:

Rhombus? Don't start tracing them into your skin with your finger.
(Oh, but it's good stimmy fun.).

yeah, it is


Merle

True.


And I think that random singing of Do You Like Waffles is a great idea. JD off Scrubs would do it.

Welcome back Will. I seem to find myself sitting over here often. I frequently fail to perceive when people are speaking in jest.

44. Do not chat to your neighbours cat. At least not when he has moved away and is nowhere in sight, but you just really miss him.

I'm ending up as a crazy cat lady fo sho.

45. Do not explain that your exercise routine is based on the Fibonacci sequence (1 stretch cycle sitting, 1 stretch cycle standing, 2 deep breaths, 3 pushups hands together, 5 pushups hands wide, 8 pushups hands normal width, 13 back lifts....and so forth).

46. Do not reload the dishwasher they've just loaded before they've left the room. Especially do not yank things out of their hands and growl, "How can you mix the forks and spoons that way?!?"

47. Do not grab laundry out of their helpful hands and bark, "No! Thank you! I really want to fold it myself!"

48. Don't be wearing your canary yellow noise-blocking earmuffs when the builders working on your home addition enter the room at an unannounced time that is neither the 9:30 AM coffee break nor the 12:30 PM lunch break.

49. Do not give the impression that it is all the builders' fault for seeing you in said earmuffs because they had the audacity to enter the room at an unannounced time that...

50. Do not go rigid and stare like a deer in headlights when the builders ask, "What are those for?"; do not take seven seconds to formulate an answer.

Yep, it's been a great morning.