Do you find autistic people more annoying than others?

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You have misunderstood me. I do not deny that I have emotions. I feel happy, sad, angry etc, I just choose not to act on my emotions. If I want sex, I will try to seduce a woman I am attracted to. If I want "love", I will try to make friends with her. I just prefer to behave for a reason and not for emotion. People tend to assume that emotions are as good a reason for doing something as logic. I don't share these assumptions. I understand the evolutionary argument for emotion but emotion in this theory is utilitarian, it serves a distinct purpose. In my view emotions have no objective existence and must be characterised as a form of delusion. If one's emotions lead to suicide or murder, then the justification for such emotions seem debatable.

Sociopaths usually have strong emotions I would imagine. Why would they want to hurt others otherwise? They feel intense hate or anger and these are the only emotions they know so they claim that they feel nothing. Their actions are clearly guided by emotion, rather than cognition. Serial killers usually gain nothing from their acts but are compelled to continue by their emotions.

All IMO as usual.

Thanks for clarifying. I see conscience as a form of social conditioning and part of the social evolution of our species. It is passed from parent to child and so on. If the parent lacks a conscience, I'd imagine the child would too. Conscience for me has no relation to emotion. Guilt about something is not a sufficient reason for not acting. Believing an action is ethically or morally wrong comes from logic not emotion, no matter how emotional one thinks one is.

Thanks for reading.

It really depends on the person. I find some NTs annoying and some aspies annoying. Though the aspies Ive found annoying, I found them annoying because they reminded me of annoying NTs. The NTs I find annoying are often within the characteristics of too loud, too snobby, too fake, too perky and cheerful(which often leads into me thinking that their fake), too demanding, etc. Often I dont find aspies annoying(unless they act like annoying NTs), they just seem rather closed off which I am often too so I dont blame them. Id say my ability to make friends with NTs and people on the spectrum is about equal. I do have more NT friends because Ive ran into way more NTs throughout my life then aspies.

It depends on the person. I don't lump them into categories because aspies have annoyed me and some none aspies haven't. In fact I was annoyed more by none aspies when growing up lol. My brothers, my parents, and other kids when they mess up my stuff. My brothers' friends annoyed me because they wouldn't stop making lot of noise and making messes and they would get in my personal space, the basement. I hated them being down there, I wanted them upstairs where they can make messes up there and do changes like moving the furniture.
Oh yeah, sometimes people annoy me on here. So that's why I don't lump people into categories.

I would say its 50/50 because some NTs are annoying and some are well alright same applies to people on the autism spectrum to be honest.

I don't know if I've ever met an Aspie. Looking back I suspect now that some kids in school may have been, they were all in my accelerated math class and were very into Dungeons and Dragons. I didn't find them annoying but I don't know if they were aspie, they were just sorta geeky. My stepson has PDD-NOS, NVLD, CAPD and he's math disabled - it's a lot different than AS.

I've never met an Aspie in real life, but there are a few things I find annoying in these forums:

-Some people are always like "define this and that", even when the definition was cut and dried. Come on, I'm not a f*****g lawyer. Get a clue and use your common sense to figure out what I meant.

-I've always seen disapproval towards overgeneralizing, but overanalyizing can be just as annoying and unnecessary. It can be just as naive and ignorant too. Two sides of the same coin....

-Emphasizing logic to the point where it sounds mechanical. Emotion is the end, and logic is a means to that end. You can't separate that, no matter how logical or rational you think you are. Logic isn't everything. Hell, you can even make logical arguments about why the world is flat.

-Using big words and calling people who use simpler words dumb. They're the dumb ones. This sounds like an attack on the entire AS community, but I'm only talking about the pretentious douchebags who justify this by claiming superiority. They only feel the need to put unnecessary detail into everything cuz they can't think circumstantially. Not all circumstances require so much detail. I'm not talking to those who just happen to be pedantic.

-People who think they're superior because they have academic knowledge. These people often lack common sense and adaptive skills to the point where they live in ivory towers, so this superiority crap is uncalled for.

PS: Long post, but I'm bored right now.

AceOfSpades

In my experience, I've seen more annoying NT's than Autistic people, but then it does depend on the individual, of course. Humanity in general is quite vexatious.
I must add, I have (very mild) Neurotypical Disorder, and many people whom are on the severe end of the NT spectrum think I'm annoying. But I have more autistic traits than they do

I have heard it said, and I agree that ASDian as a group are more different to each other than NT's as a group are. So to me it makes sense that you would find some annoying ASDians......... and, I guess some NT's too. Unfortunately I don't know any other adult ASDians in the real world, outside of my family that is. In general the adult ASDians I have had contact with over the net and phone I like alot and do not find them annoying at all. Of course they are the ones that I have chosen to talk to more than once, presumably because we have something in common and that I don't find them annoying in the first place. In contrast I do find all NT's I have anything to do with annoying in at least one respect.

I actually think the world would be a better place if there were more ASDians.