What are some neurotypical things that don't make sense?

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What's brought that about? Reading this thread?

Yeah

I could never figure why people say "hello, how are you" when they had no interest in my health (nor I in theirs)! I'd probably have had a lot more friends if only someone had explained to me that it was code for "I'd like to converse with you"!

Well I quite like smalltalk if I'm honest

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I think it depends what they're talking about. If what they want to say might upset the listener then they often approach it indirectly. You can even ask them a straight question and if they don't think you'll like the answer, they'll dilute their answer or maybe just say silent, which they hope you'll take as meaning that the answer isn't nice. People are remarkably sensitive to all kinds of things. There are also a lot of questions that are often considered invasive or threatening. And a lot depends on context, so a remark or question can be appropriate in one situation and out of line in another. A lot of it has to do with pride.

I don't see this in my life. Nobody has ever held back from being absolutely brutally honest to me regardless of my feelings. I'm usually the one to be full of tact and diplomacy....well most of the time anyway

Maybe I'm nt and everyone who I've ever known is Nd

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Yes Aspies are notorious for a singular hatred of dishonesty. I've never fully understood why this is so. It probably adds a lot of difficulty to the already hard task of understanding what's going on with people and predicting what they're going to do, like somebody messing with the brakes of a car you're trying to drive safely. And then there's the emotional sensitivity thing that may make it harder to forgive what's seen as some kind of an attack, because it just hurts more deeply.

I've changed my attitude a bit over the years, so for example if a Christian was dying and asked me if they were going to heaven, I'd probably say yes, though I really don't think they are. There are compassionate lies. I'm also capable of playing things up or down if I think the person concerned might be worse off with the truth, at least at the time, though I'd always hope that they'd later become strong enough for me to fix that. And those who I see as particularly hostile towards me, I feel that they've forfeited the right to the truth. So a benefits adjudicator who was trying to deny me my rights might not get complete honesty from me. There does seem to be a game going on in the world where if an individual is too candid, they'll get taken advantage of. One thing I'd be very loathe to drop is my insistence of honesty between partners. It still surprises and dismays me to see couples who are comfortable with deceiving each other. I'm never comfortable with dishonesty.

I'm not from Yorkshire but I have known a lot of Yorkshire folk in my time

To my way of thinking, dishonesty creates a lag in the computer processing program. When the mind is programmed to run its scripts based on truth, any errors (dishonesty) create a problem and unnecessary additional adjustments in the script to return to its proper path. What a waste of computational time! Dishonesty creates problems where there were none before.

As for the game you describe going on in the world, that mindset of taking advantage of others is like a computer virus.

Yes if your brain is trying to run like a computer program, lies are the equivalent of corrupted code, and we get this "rubbish in, rubbish out" thing.

So when a doctor asks how much you drink, you have to halve the amount that you tell him because you know he's going to double it, because he expects you to have halved it. And so the virus spreads.

I long ago gave up trying to understand them.

These days I stay as far away from them as possible. I can often go for over a week without interacting with any of them.

Made possible by the fact that Im retired and live in a ND household.