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Rhiannon0828
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24 May 2011, 7:49 am

Sometimes it's just fun to mess with people. Sometimes people get so complacent, so content to have their view of normal be the only standard, that it's fun to shake them up a little. It's probably good for them, and can certainly be amusing. I usually do this in conversations with people (not that I have a lot of those!). Messing with people in a non-malicious way is harmless, and sometimes it may even make them think a little bit.



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24 May 2011, 9:15 am

swbluto wrote:
alexptrans wrote:
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I don't understand the point of any of this. If you don't know someone why would you want to 'creep them out'? Come to think of it, why would you if you knew them? Doesn't sound very nice to me.


Me neither. And I don't know what kind of psychological group does this for fun. I'm not even sure what is meant by "psychological group".


It's an aggregate word for all sorts of human classifications. These human classifications include but are not limited to the following: Aspergers individuals, schizophrenics, bullies, neurotypicals, nerds, freaks, geeks, creeps, people with executive function within the 10th percentile, people fascinated by alphanumeric patterns, computer scientists, people with a lifelong history of privilege and an intolerance for bubble-headed blondes, and so on. More than one possible group may apply.

And, to everyone who's replied, I could tell I disliked 'her type' because you could tell she was the fad-influenced normal ditsy type of female from the way she was dressed in the latest fashions, the way she kept her looks and I could overhear her conversation at beginning of the bus ride when she was conversing with a friend across the aisle. And, no, I wasn't "trying" to weird her out, but I figured that it probably would considering my knowledge of her type, and so I embraced the activity that much more because I knew it would. See, the fact it might've got a reaction was a bonus (And if she didn't care, then that would've been awesome! But, alas, these kind of people tend to be intolerant of deviances from the norm since they strive for it and exalt it.), but not the primary motivation.

So, as kfisherx suggested, is this kind of thinking really soooooo 'NT'? That is, aspies don't think about this kind of thing?

Oh, *tear*. What will I ever do when I find out I was just a strange, repulsive NT all along?


THIS aspie cannot think of those things. I cannot speak for all. Thanks for this detailed explanation. It gives me a great view into how that sort of thinking works. WOW! I am in my own world in public too much for this sort of thing. I normally just focus on survival out there so things like fashion and other people never seem to make it into my consciousness. It is a spectrum and I already know that I do not fall on the mild side so your differences do not preclude you from DX. Just is amazing to me that ANYONE can do this sort of processing. (crappy ToM makes it hard for me to grasp differences)



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24 May 2011, 8:05 pm

swbluto wrote:
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Your story completely confused me. Whatever does this girl have to do with inventing games? Your ability to "read" people and even notice them astounds me. I have no such skill or energy...


My self-reported ability to "read people" implies nothing about my accuracy, lol. Most NTs seem to be quicker / more-accurate than me in identifying emotions, so I could be wildly off.

Anyway, the girl was involved because ummmm.... it was fun to think I could weird her out. It's fun to mess with certain types of people you dislike, you know? (Maybe you don't. Maybe that's the "inner NT" in me speaking, lol. Interesting, on another thought, if the "fun to mess with people you dislike" characteristic is a common NT trait, then that might be the mechanism behind why aspergers individuals get harassed, teased and bullied by many NTs. I wonder if there's a more fundamental reason for this I'm-antagonizing-you-because-I-dislike-your-type behavior.)

There's a difference between disliking someone because you think they conform to a stereotype you don't like and disliking someone simply for being different though. The latter is definitely higher on the immaturity meter than the former.