kraftiekortie wrote:
Fist-bumps are the epitome of neurotypicality. They are used to prevent the transmission of disease. Handshakes are seen as more risky. I prefer handshakes myself.
I prefer fistpumps because I'm a bit of a germaphobe. However, I tend to have an issue whereby I go in for the fistpump but they go in for the handshake (or vice versa) and it becomes very awkward very fast.
I have very good abstract thinking skills because I learned how to BS the crap out of everything because I was an English minor in college. Just invent stories! Tie things together that shouldn't necessarily be tied and use perfect "logic" to "prove" your point. The funny part is, the fundamental premise could be anything, no matter how ridiculous, such as "the river is symbolic of a uterus because a uterus is also a container with water in it," but if you follow up with good logic, you have a good argument!
It started out as trial and error for me but eventually I learned to see patterns in the kinds of stuff my professors liked to hear - what worked and what didn't. And from that I would form algorithms to determine what connections would work for subsequent papers.
I think my most NT trait is that I always had a vivid creative imagination and knew how to use it to my advantage. Unfortunately this didn't seem to extend to predicting social interaction.
I also can almost always detect sarcasm, but I don't always know how to respond to it other than by laughing awkwardly or giving them a knowing smile. There is the rare occasion when someone is sarcastic but I couldn't tell because they said it in a non-sarcastic tone, with perhaps a very subtle at most sarcastic inflection.
10 Apr 2014, 3:16 pm
