What do you find weird about neurotypicals?

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It baffles me how two NTs that presumably don't know one another from Adam or Eve can strike up a conversation like they've known each other for years.

In fairness I can do this, if a little clumsily. I think it's from being raised in Yorkshire where everyone talks to everyone even if you have no idea who they are xD I once had a conversation with a customer about dog turd, and she was the one who brought it up!

Oh yes, add fads to my list too. Obviously not all NTs, but a lot won't wear something that's "out of fashion" and I'm just like... but if you like it, wear it? Almost all my shirts are novelty or specially bought cos that's what I like I just don't understand how some vague outside concept influences what you like personally like.

I just love tea rooms. We have one in our town and yes for the over50 crowd which is me.

oh i didnt mean to sound rude, actually I'd like to go sometimes, I'm just too poor :p

I agree with this. I did a google search recently on the most popular hobby in the US, because I was curious. Turns out it's watching TV. I do not consider watching TV to be a hobby, but it certainly makes sense why none of the NT's I talk to seem to ever be able to hold a conversation about anything interesting. Even their discussions about their jobs are boring, because so few of them have the passion and drive to learn something to the point of excellence, and follow a career path in that direction, so they get stuck in nameless, bland jobs that earn them enough money to pay the cable bill.

^ well, in all fairness, someone needs to do the bland, nameless jobs as well. And there are definitely lots of people, NTs and aspies alike, who for different reasons and circumstances never have a chance to do what they burn for or are interested in.

Thinking you have to sell all your personal things if you are poor or hit hard times before going on welfare. To me this is idiotic thinking and bigotry because it's like you are not allowed to have a gaming system or a TV set or movies, etc. even if they were given to you as a gift.

Fat activists. I don't understand how going from anorexia to binge eating is recovery or how being fat is a good thing when I see on My 600 lb Life those people on there fighting to live and struggling to move and are suffering health problems and seeing that autopsy video on what fat does to your body and I can;t understand how any of this is fat shaming because calling it fat shaming is like calling it fast food shaming when you talk about how unhealthy it is to always eat at fast food.



None of these things are NT things BTW. These are human things and called being an idiot. The first one is called bigotry and closed minded.

Thank-you IstominFan! You made me feel a little better about myself. Hugs to you too and I hope the NTs in your life are nice to you.

Yes I would agree with you on this one EzraS. This ritual has always confounded me and would feel like hell on Earth to be in. If I ever found myself in that situation I would bolt out of there as fast as I could.

Everything. They are so fickle, they have no substance, always reaching group consensus over logic and truth.
They lie openly, even to themselves, don't want to know the truth, fear it, deny it.
They make false assumptions.
Though Neurotypical is a Spectrum and you will find some that have hobbies, and can talk about some interesting subjects they have knowledge of.

Their tendency to positively value short term relationships and casual sex. The copy paste of self marketing techniques on eg tinder and facebook. Always the same kind of pics, showing they go outside and have friends.

Making a new best friend every 5 minutes and having no sense of loyalty!

Also, not really caring about their loved one's opinions, but mostly just caring about validation from ANYONE who will tell them what they want to hear.

Most movies, tv shows, and other media promotes the idea of loyalty, BFF's, happily ever after, etc. However, in real life, people seem to relationship hop on a whim, and they care about a specific person's opinion for only a short amount of time. Then they find a 'new best friend' and suddenly all they care about is what THAT person thinks - the new person who doesn't know them at all! It just seems so impractical.

Nothing about NT's makes sense to me. Talking, laughing, sticking together, concerts, drinks, parties, family, kids ... the lot. They seem to like it all.

1. The way they need to constantly have variance. If I want to spend a lifetime wearing just one colour of clothes, this makes me boring and eccentric in their eyes.

2. The constant lying and their expectation that you lie too. If I tell the truth that I didn't like a gift given to me, or I don't like someone's dress (when asked), I'm apparently a horrible person for not lying.

3. Surprises. I much prefer getting a gift I knew I was going to than a surprise.

4. Short notices. The way they expect you to join you in activities you had little or no notice that were going to happen. I like to plan in advance.

5. Relationships: I don't see why couples need to constantly make physical contact (e.g. hold hands whilst sitting on the bus) or share one bedroom after marriage.

Agreed. I don’t understand the Instagram thing either. They all basically make themselves a product. It’s also blatant vanity oftentimes and blatant bragging. It cannot be healthy.

How overanalyzing everything gives me reassurance and security, and certainty, and makes me feel stronger. NTs interpret it the opposite way - unsecure, insecure, uncertain, weak.