Fiz wrote:
dgd1788 wrote:
Do you agree?
Maybe intelligent people are only crazy to NT because they don't think like Aspies.
No, I reckon it is because they are intimidated by our intelligence and don't have good enough comebacks to it, or simply cannot engage in what we have said as they don't have a clue what we are talking about. This is all too much for them and they feel belittled and stupid in comparison. People don't like to feel like that, and so react like you are the one with the problem when, in actual fact, they are for being thick and deep down they know it. However, we do think on a different level to others, still no excuse for people saying we have a screw loose though.
I agree.
I see NTs bail out of conversations all the time. They ask a question and if I really answer it fully they step back and say something stupid like "Whoa, you're really into this, huh?" which isn't a comment about the conversation at all, it's a break in the conversation and now the attention is focused on me, instead of the topic.
I think it's a cop out on the part of the NT. They get lost and can't follow so they make a joke or make a comment about how weird you are and then laugh and go away.
This is one of the reasons why I do not like direct interaction. At all.
One very small example - watching Jeopardy. I love it, but it's more fun if someone else in the room is saying answers also. If an NT is in the room they won't try, or they stop watching and start making comments about me knowing answers (I truly don't know that many or get that many right either) and that just interferes with the rest of the program. I can't hear the questions because they're talking about me, or getting mad that I got some right, or something stupid.
My favorite person to watch Jeopardy with is my son who is also Aspie and can answer 3x more questions correctly than I can. It's fun - we both try on each question and all of our attention is on the tv, not on each other or on idle chitchat while the show is on.
NTs usually just complain that they want to watch something else.
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