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Why people want friends. When I was a kid, I only wanted friends because I thought they would let me boss them around and lecture to them about my obsessions and sepcial intrests. When I realised that isn't what a friend is, I didn't want one anymore. To this day, it still mesmorises me why people want this "give and take" relationship.

I can't get is why anyone would want to be anything aside from a vet....espicaly people who claim to love animals. Theory of mind is something I will never fully master.

Anything to do with the Tea Party and conservative talk radio/tv - it's not that I can't understand it it's just that I cannot rationally believe that these folks believe the words coming out of their own mouths. The simple fact that religion is now so firmly imbedded in politics also boggles my mind. It's obvious, it's clear and it is one of the founding principles of our forefathers extricated themselves from England for. Just - HOW - can people not see and react to this stuff? The lack of basic human compassion on the conservative side literally scares me - especially in the context of them bing religiously minded. They want to ban abortion but not provide healthcare... it sort of makes my brain explode.

So many issues... election years always make my head hurt.

Contrary to an aspie stereotype, I have a lot of trouble understanding math and science.

I also have trouble understanding how someone's special interest can involve inanimate objects like trains or concepts like science, because all of my special interests have revolved around fictional characters. The characters I obsess over always become my imaginary friends and their presence within my mind quells my feelings of loneliness. I fail to understand why most people don't have imaginary friends like I do.

But perhaps the biggest thing I fail to understand is why the only completely socially acceptable obsession is sports. Granted, my own current special interest (Johnny Depp/Tim Burton movies) doesn't garner a lot of negative reactions, but I feel bad for other aspies who get made fun of for their interests when it's treated as perfectly acceptable in society for NTs to act like lunatics over their favorite sports teams.

Small talk. And I don't want to understand it, either.

I shut right down when people start talking about anything to do with money, celebrities and cars. The way money works seems to complicated to me, celebrities remind me too much of social conformism and mainstream, and cars are just so boring and there's so many names of different types that it confuses me.

I think I know the least about celebrities more than anybody else in the world, I reckon. And when I do give an opinion about a celebrity, some people are all surprised. When I get a fact wrong about a celebrity, people tend to take the piss as though it is essensial for me to know.

Cool, another Essex girl!!

Philosophy, for me. It doesn't make sense, and the questions people ask are pointless.

Poetry.

Algebra (but I'd love to learn it).

Dreams. Aren't they weird? Most of mine have been about my teeth falling out, or crumbling away. And tornadoes.

I can barely understand anything, but I try

Anything Justin Beiber related.

How someone's obsession or special intrest can be anything people related.

I don't think beyond my comprehension fits what this thread is about. It's not so much beyond my comprehension as outside what's practically worth knowing as far as my interests go. I've found on more than one occasion that i can have a subject where my brain retains absolutely no information, but then a change in circumstances and priorities makes that same subject useful and my ability to retain the information completely changes. Once upon a time practically every subject was incomprehensible to me, lots of things i like now i can remember not liking once and having to put effort into developing.

The truly incomprehensible are things that ive never had use for and will probably never have use for. It's just work away though, anything can become comprehensible by working at it. Just make it useful in your head and you can learn anything you want.

I still don't understand why girls go crazy for me. (I also coincidentally don't understand why self-promoting humorous statements seems to be a method for elevating one's popularity. It's like self-image is somehow important to other people, for some reason.)

I cannot comprehend why people country western line dance. It looks so silly I lmao everytime I see it. Comical to the max.

Fashion. Will never get it.

Sports. Ugh.

TV shows.

When I was in my teens I learned the value of getting along with people, and friends (I was a bit of a delinquent). It took me until I was like twenty to get small talk.

- People getting allured to political extremes, to the point they seem like they've been brain-washed

- Sustaining a working (romantic) relationship and understanding gender roles (the differences between them)

- Social chit-chat between women and to a lesser degree between men (sorry, this is the way I feel)

- How people in general can't take rational and well-meant advices, let alone saying thanks for them

- I'm only getting to have a grasp of minimum social expectations, the ones that when you do accordingly you'll never get a single thanks for (e.g. you take a shower after you did a little cycling during the day-break at your workplace).

- How some people with mental issues don't reach out for help and can't change their detrimental, obviously false attitude

- Oh, and fashion