Intolerence for stupid extroverts

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You should remember that viruses and use of antibiotics isn't part of normal formal education. If they don't know, it's probably not their fault, but the fault of health care professionals who don't bother to tell them otherwise. Everyone can't be expected to know these things, even if you perceive it as simple. I do think it can be frustrating to listen to people talk like this, but it's not a big to me.

I can't say I enjoyed that (because it gave me sensory overload and I nearly had a meltdown) but I appreciated the lesson. Also it reminded me why I've never been able to hold down a job, and to realize once again that I truly can't handle it, because just watching this video for 10 minutes has left me with ringing ears, drained energy, and every nerve in my body frazzled. (It's an effective use of music in the background, to amplify the stress!)

As for stupid people... I think what's 'stupid' is refusing to learn, and grow, and become wiser. It's normal to make mistakes and blunders, but the important thing is to learn from them, and try to do better!

The video is a truly great commencement speech from the wise David Foster Wallace. I wish he was still alive.

He was very awesome.
My dad showed him to me and I was sad that he killed himself.
He was also a great writer,
it's cool that you know who he is Janissy.

for me the traffic part is specifically sensory overloading.

I am rarely successful at thinking like the guy on the video suggests, but when I am seated in a crowded bus I get up so that someone else can sit. I think: " I was just at college and I will be soon at home and sleeping; that woman over there, she is probably more tired than I am. She spent a stressful day at a awful low-paying job, she lives far away in the suburban area, she probably woke up today at 4 o'clock and she can't sleep when she gets home because she still has to cook for her children and clean everything. It is better if she sits instead of me"
but this is actually very hard to do

Extroverts don't irritate me (my husband is one) as much as the societal pressure to BE one irritates me.

NT's seem to worship the people who are the most talkative and most active, perhaps because they are the folks that naturally command the most attention. People who are a little quieter, a little less active, naturally get less attention.

Stupid people (i.e. close-minded, judgmental, arrogant, bigoted, etc.) obviously can be introverted, extroverted, and everything in between...they are bothersome regardless...it's just that "stupid" extroverts are loud, obnoxious, and in your face so you're probably more likely to actively notice and dislike them. But we all know that already.

Last edited by capri0112 on 07 Mar 2014, 5:58 pm, edited 1 time in total.

stupid;as in,someone who does/says ignorant things OR;as in the oldskool disablist slur for those of us with lower mental capacity [ie, intelectual disability or near impairment]?

am not deliberately trying to offend anyone but it sounds like the original post refers to ignorant behaviors of people though appears to show bias,ignorance and prejudice towards both extroverts and anyone who doesnt have a normal or above mental capacity.
given the fact a large number of people on the spectrum;ie those of us with classic autism and CDD have lower mental capacity and many with PDDNOS are affected woud think members of the autistic community woud have a bit of tolerance and understanding for people who cant help being themselves regardless of who they are.
am moderate-severely intelectualy disabled and knew that anti biotics dont work on colds/flus,its about ignorance not mental capacity.

if we want to gain equality,basic respect and understanding from NTs
we need to be setting a good example by giving it to them.
every person does something that someone else will find irritating,we all have to learn to be tolerant,otherwise will never be a functioning part of society,nor will people be willing to offer understanding and tolerance in return.

I think anyone is bothered by stupid people. AS or NT or whoever. I have seen low tolerance on stupidity online from people and people even confuse ignorance and stupidity. Ignorance is not the same as stupidity. Ignorance is not knowing or having knowledge of something, that has nothing to do with intelligence. Now that bothers me.

I will echo what someone said, we do appear stupid to other people because of our lack of social skills and taking things literal and how we process things. I saw a heartbreaking post on Facebook about a Walmart employee taking a caller's instruction's literal so she wrote 'best wishes Suzanne underneath that we will miss you.'

The "underneath that" was not supposed to be there. The caller meant she wanted the words 'we will miss you' under 'Best wishes Suzanne' and people were calling it stupidity and some others said it's lack of education and our education is failing the students. Okay so we take something literal and someone may think we're stupid or lack common sense (which was also mentioned in the comments that some people have no common sense) if they are not aware of our disability. It was hard to read and I thought lot of the comments were insensitive so I stopped reading them. That employee could have been on the autism spectrum or maybe she had a brain fart. When people have one, they do something stupid. I have had brain farts. I have noticed how black and white people are when it comes to these things. They either think you're stupid or you're smart. If you're smart, they expect you to know things and figure stuff out and remember things and get mad at you when you can't do it. If they think you're dumb, well they may be more polite because they dumb things down for you but unfortunately they treat you like you're stupid or they still treat you with disrespect because they also don't have tolerance for stupidity and they don't even bother to try and help you because it's so obvious to them so they think you're being dumb and asking a dumb question. I always find it sad when people always have to end their posts with or start it with "Sorry if this is a stupid question" or "Sorry for asking a stupid question but..." and I always think it's not a stupid question. People feel so bad about themselves and guilty they have to put that disclaimer in their post because they are so worried about not getting any respect or help and are so worried their question might piss people off. You won't know if you don't ask. You won't understand if you don't ask. yeah some people are jerks so people feel the need to put that disclaimer up because of it as if it will keep the jerks away or make people be nice to them and help them. As a matter of fact it's arrogant people I can't stand and people who are on their high horses so they look down on others for not having their brain activity and same knowledge as them. I had a user on another forum who was making rude posts to me so I told him if he makes another rude one to me, I am putting him on ignore so I won't see his posts again and I haven't noticed any of his responses to any of my posts ever since. Coincidence? But yet I notice he is friendly to other users on the forum.

Me too. Especially if they are trying to sound authoritative and knowledgeable about something they know nothing about.

Things like that used to irritate me. I've found that placed in similar situations, I'm not much better sometimes. We know best until we stand in someone else's shoes.

That is my most hated metaphor.

The thing is, what I say often isn't percieved by others as I intend it to be. My thread title and my use of the word stupid evidently caused some misunderstandings as some of you were appeared to think I was refering to the mentally challenged or people with lower than average IQs. I geuss my use of volcabulary was never my forte. I totally meant people who are ignorant but think they know everything. Some of these intolerant people that I have in mind happen to be lawyers for example.