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Jaden
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13 Dec 2013, 4:16 pm

Dan_Undiagnosed wrote:
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First impressions are irrelevant to me, if I don't have a reason to get to know someone, I don't bother.

Most people I meet aren't worth the time of day anyway, especially online.


Haha! I like your style! If you know anything about Dunbar's Number you seem like the type of person who would agree that most people you meet on a day to day basis won't make the grade as friends. I don't get why some people need to instantly attempt to make everyone they meet a friend. I'm not on Facebook or any of those social media sites but I see the massive friend counts people have as being an online version of the same thing. 'Human hoarding' if you will.


lol indeed, I've never understood why people have thousands of online acquaintances when they don't even know 90% of them all (nor talk with them within a 6 month period). I have facebook, but the only people I have on it are family and close friends that I've known for years (literally 24 people in total).


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13 Dec 2013, 7:25 pm

Dan_Undiagnosed wrote:
I've noticed that, like they hear asperger's and expect you to walk in licking your palms, twitching and rambling like Rain Man.



Nah
K-Mart went out of business and Judge Wopner is off the air. The Rain Man days are over.



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13 Dec 2013, 8:02 pm

OddFiction wrote:
Dan_Undiagnosed wrote:
I've noticed that, like they hear asperger's and expect you to walk in licking your palms, twitching and rambling like Rain Man.



Nah
K-Mart went out of business and Judge Wopner is off the air. The Rain Man days are over.


But Qantas is still one of the safest options for air travel even after outsourcing maintainence :P



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13 Dec 2013, 10:58 pm

M first impression of people are usually wrong.


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13 Dec 2013, 11:20 pm

When I first meet someone, unless they say something like "I am a monster," I think they are wonderful people. If they do say they are a monster, I think they must be sad and misunderstood.

When I meet an autistic person, something in me usually sings "Yay! They're like me!"

When someone meets me on the rare occasion that I am well dressed, well coiffed, wearing makeup and my nails are not a wreck, their first impression of me is of a vibrant, interesting, compassionate, attractive older woman. Then they get to know me and see I am weird as hell.

When I present myself to others in a more 'casual" state, they perceive me as weird from the get go. And they go out of their way not to get to know me better.