If NTs were assessed by autistic researchers

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What did he think you would do, KitLily?
Forget that you'd said Wednesdays, or change your mind?

I've never heard of anyone thinking it's weird to keep plans.
It's really interesting though.
You always point out things I do that I'm not aware of.

God knows. I was mystified by him.

I think a lot of NTs or most of them, just make vague plans and don't expect people to stick to them. Or pull out of the plans if they get a better offer.

That was annoying when we were trying to plan our wedding and inviting people. We needed a definite number of people to be seated at the wedding meal but we got such flaky, vague answers! In the end we had to send an email round saying 'as we haven't heard from you, we presume you aren't coming to our wedding.' Sooooo rude!! ! When you get a wedding invitation you reply quickly and accurately! FFS.

This wasn't so in the 1970s/80s. People made plans and stuck to them. I suppose now days people have so much choice of entertainment and socialising, they just choose the most exciting one, not thinking about other people's feelings!

Hilarious and wonderful. There is a deep truth here.

It's actually brilliant. It's not hostile. It shows how ridiculous it is to pathologize a group of people because their authentic behavior is different from another group of people

Maybe something about how their inability to form special interests?

thats hilarious.

so true though especially about the communication.

I really like the idea that just because certain patterns of behavior fall into the majority, that doesn't mean devating from them is a disorder. I think that's what this satire is trying to say.

We're not disordered for not behaving like the majority of people do, we're just different.

I know there's a push to replace aspergers with autism spectrum disorder but I object to being labelled as "disordered".

I remember decades ago (around 2000 I think?) when scientists mapped the human genome for the first time, they were really excited because it proved that humanity is a far more diverse species than they thought, and people are more different to each other than they thought.

Somehow this knowledge has been lost since then and we are all supposed to conform to some 'normal' way of behaving

I would say something like " they seem to exist in a parallel reality composed of social" truths" that they like or that appeal to them. They ignore the objective truths they don't like.