List one NT thing you do not understand.

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It takes me a very, very long time before I think of someone as a friend. I've been astonished when someone introduced me to a third party as 'my friend'. As far as I was concerned, we were casual acquaintances.

Lol I do this...not in groups, but sometimes two of us will go together. It's only if we don't want to stop out conversation or because otherwise the one of us would be left standing alone.

I don't understand:
1. if you talk too much, you're annoying; if you talk too little, you're shy or weird
2. dating for pure entertainment
3. passive aggressiveness
(of course, these aren't strictly NT things)

the dating thing totally blows my mind.

In fact, to paraphrase Pat Buttram from Back to the Future III: "dating--for fun?! !! ! what the hell kind of fun is that?!"

DANCING!

no really, I simply cannot get the point behind why it is so important to move "rythmically" in funny poses with others.

Two-faced behavior, and the habit of some NT's to talk about others when they're in the same room.

There's now a whole culture of worshipping potential.
It's a culture of saying: "You have to improve your weaknesses and aim high."

Maybe, in the old days the attitude was:
"Use what you've got to survive."

Now it's:
"You need to desire and aquire items and personality traits that you don't have to thrive."
"Fix your weakenesses to become a fuller human being."

Before, it was all about what you have got and what you can use.

Now, the ideology is more about aiming for what you don't have.

Big difference.

I do not understand their "friends" stuff. Ive been called a friend by NTs at times and still are.. but then they dont treat me like what i believe a friend is. They seem so superficial.. and it appears they call those who they treat as more like aquaintences as friends.

I also dont understand why they lie so much or decieve.

Why on earth they want me to slow down, when its them that not keep up!

I agree completely. They want "friends" as people to hang out with and chat, so they don't have to go to the movies by themselves. But if you are ever hurt or distraught and need someone to listen or help you, then you become tiresome and annoying and their so-called friendship vanishes.

I agree with the second part as well. And I would add, why don't they care if another person is deceitful or manipulative? They just shrug it off, and you're the one making waves for bringing it up. Then the "friendship" they had with you instantly vanishes, once again.

I know what you guys mean, as I've experienced it, but not all NT's are like that.

I don't understand why I have to ask people about them.....when I'd rather talk about my special interest......and why do people object to me rocking it calms me down.

Vague statements.
Such as:

"Candidates should have excellent communication skills."

What kind of communication skills exactly?

Written English? Sign language? Foreign languages? Public speaking? Chit chatting? Emailing? Telephoning? Visual artistic? Computer graphical (graphs, spreadsheets etc)? Running errands? Social networking? Computer programming? Mathematical logical? Scientific diagrams? Visual animation (motion graphs)? Film making? Interviewing? Coaching? Dancing? Report writing? Touch? Gesturing? Prosody? Paraverbal signals? Verbal information? Sending your grandma a Birthday card?

Communication skills is a very broad subject.
Someone could be highly adept at drawing flow charts, yet struggle to explain these diagrams to a crowded room of people.

My question is would this person have "good communication skills"?

What does the statement "good communication skills" really mean?

Would a monolingual fluent English speaking person have poor communication skills if s/he was told that s/he had to write a report in Japanese?

Or does "having good communication skills" mean that you have to master the dominant form of communication. Would that mean that you'd have to use written language when told, even though you might prefer to draw a picture or diagram?

What if you're brilliant at informational and mathematical communication. If you struggle to make casual banter with your colleagues, would that make you a "bad communicator"?

The statement: "Excellent communication skills" is often accompanied by the statements "Excellent numeracy skills" and "Excellent teamworking skills".

I have a question, how come everyone was brilliantly competant and "well rounded" in all these areas before they can work effectively in a team?

What about delegation?
What if the good social communicators helped out the good informational communicators.
Why not have each member specialise in one style of communication instead of expecting everyone to be superhuman?

I don't understand a lot about teamwork. It baffles me.
What if my excellent communication skills are the wrong communication skills?

People compassionately working together sharing the load and making up for individual "deficits"?

Is that what teamwork is all about or have I got that completely wrong?

Obsessions with "brand names"

Maybe most aspies have the same obsession to, but if you want me to wear a t-shirt with Nike or something on it... Give me standard billboard rates and away we go. Otherwise dream on..

Every buy a Ralph Loren t-shirt at the sally-ann and sit there with a seam ripper removing the dude playing polo on it? Then just to find out that it's less faded there and have the throw the dang thing out?

Shops playing loud distracting Muzak/pop music.

The unneccessary noise makes it impossible to concentrate.

I end up analysing song structure/messages when I try to buy things.

The music also makes it difficult for the shopper to communicate with the cashier: there's a "wall of sound" in the way.

I also don't understand why some people wants to be surrounded by noise. I hate teenagers playing mp3s on their cellphones on the steet, I don't understand cyclists or inline skaters with headphones. My colleagues at work are still listening to local radio station (stupid pop-music) and I am not able to concentrate when I must do something in their offices. Fortunately I have my own room in my work.

When you're a pedestrian:

Drivers waving at you to cross the road at a busy junction.

When the drivers (oncoming traffic) have priority and there's no pedestrian crossing.

This is dangerous.
Traffic builds up behind the driver who's trying to wave you across. If you don't cross a driver may sound his horn and make you jump. He may also yell rudely at you out of the window to cross the road even when you aren't supposed to.

I can understand why this kind of behaviour is against highway rules.
It may seem "charitable" on the part of the driver, but it could cause accidents and confuse other road users.

I don't mind waiting a little bit longer to cross a road and crossing the road when it's clear and safe.

Apparently some drivers do mind if I don't cross the road "illegally".
They get irritated and filled with road rage if I don't.
Some drivers seem to be in a rush to get everywhere.
Some drivers try and wave me across while they're chatting on their handheld phones.