List one NT thing you do not understand.

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This behaviour has made me feel afraid to connect with anyone or go to social events.

I've missed out on years of social experience that I'll never get back.

People used to be violently ill in my corridor at College.

At night, I could hear them all caterwauling, screaming and beating each other up.
In the morning, there'd be broken bottles all over the courtyard.

People turned a blind eye to this behaviour.

I felt like I couldn't be me in a toxic environment like this.

On fieldtrips, an assesor who was marking my work got so drunk that he couldn't stand up. I had to literally help him off of the floor. There were beer bottles stacked high on the tables all. At the end of the week, our "reward" was to get offered free vodka shots at party venues. I didn't drink any of it.

People had ingested so much free/cut price alcohol by the end of the night that they were vomiting, jibbering and swearing at each other. I had to politely tell one girl to get her hands off of me and to stop saying disturbing things.

Call me a Puritan if you like.
I noticed that the cheaper booze is, the more booze young people ingest.

I can't escape from drunk people it seems. At home or at College.

Maybe I'm the one at fault for not trying to hold a sensible conversation with a drunk person. Perhaps I have a social impairment because I consistently fail to engage in casual chit-chat with someone who's passed out on the floor.

Maybe I complain too much. People have a right to express how they feel. Maybe I'm not "cool" if I don't punctuate my speech with expletives.

Perhaps I am developmentally challenged if I don't try and squeeze my feet into high heels or pierce my body in various places.

All in all, maybe I'm a weaker person because I don't choose to torture myself physically or engage in substance abuse.

I have flash backs. I remember feeling incredibly unsafe and stuck in a social straight-jacket unable to be myself.

That's why I have depression.

Maybe it's Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

I dont understand why people dont tell the truth more often. It seems tiresome to me to keep up all the pretense, compared to living free from worry. Maybe thats why aspies look young

Well, I don't know if I'd call it a NT thing, since I suspect most people don't do this, but here's some behaviour I found incomprehensible: Until I was about 20, my friends from high school would tickle me because my extreme reaction amused them, then get mad when I flailed around reflexively trying to defend myself and accidentally hurt someone. They told me I should be apologising. Why? The person decided to tickle me in order to provoke my completely predictable reaction even though they knew I found it incredibly annoying. They got the response they were after, but failed to dodge. How was that my fault?

Business guild wars. Why neurologists and psychiatrists and psychologists and physiatrists and chiropractors and nutritionists don't talk to one another but often have offices in separate buildings.

Homophobia

war

High Heels

Why do some women obsessively collect painfully uncomfortable shoes that damage their feet?

Are the pressured into doing so by other women?
Or is it men that make the shoes and force women to wear them?

Why don't women ask themselves why they put on these shoes?

If I was told to put on uncomfortable or weirdly shaped shoes, I'd defintely ask why!

I beg to differ. Perhaps I can *appear* to smile genuinely, but the effect on my emotional state is almost negligible. Actually voicing my displeasure or unhappiness with a frown can be cathartic and allow my mood to improve more easily than if I'm forced to suppress my true expression and smile out of politeness all the time. I'll smile out of politeness when it's necessary but it doesn't improve my mood. I'm merely bottling up my emotions temporarily.

War

Prefect Privilleges

Why should students be entitled to certain "perks" just because they are older?

Maybe a lot of school bullying is caused by the heirachical system of: "older means wiser and better".

Why not use the Sudbury (Democratic) model of schooling and do away with age segregation all together?

In the real world people of different ages have to help and get along with each other.

Why not start that process at school?

Not everyone learns at the same rate, so why impose age segregated learning/privillege onto people?

I have never understood this.

They were scared of me, as a Late 70s Punk, but they love me, as the Mid 60s Mod that I am, even though the 70s are more recent, than the 60s. Teens who hated me, are making me feel welcome.

+1 on war.

On the other hand, relentless positivity. "I'm sure thing x [exam, job interview, accidental social mistake, whatever] will be fine. I'm sure you did a great job. Don't be so negative. Where's your optimism? Everything will be fiiine."

What?! How do you know? It's like they don't think anything can ever turn out badly.
And it's worse when they weren't there and I was, and yet they still insist that my doubt is wrong and their ridiculous reassurances are absolutely right! (Exams, for example. I wrote the darned thing! I saw my answers; they didn't! What makes them qualified to think they know better than I how it will turn out?)

When people cry on property programs because they love the house they're looking at. I mean WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU???

How does it make you feel?


The preference for vague touchy-feelyness over practical, useful advice that could actually help people and solve problems.

How does it make me feel?
Well, I'd certainly feel a lot better if I was busy working towards practical solutions to my problems. It would make me feel worse to wallow in the question "How does it make you feel?".

How does it make me feel?

Well it makes me feel like I'm wasting time and not being proactive.
I always get looked at weirdly when I say that.

Hahahahaha!

I don't get people who watch the HGTV network. Zzzzzzz..........

Non disabled people parking in disabled spots. Also people who don't need them parking in parent and child spots.
People in the "10 items or less" till at the supermarket with more than 10 items. I often want to slap them.
and finally people who are in the swimming pool and just chat whilst swimming up and down. Why do you need to socalise every second of the day. The clue is in the name SWIMMING pool. You are there to SWIM!