List one NT thing you do not understand.

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Then that's trolling they're doing.

"Realise your potential."

How will you know when you've realised it?

Paradoxically, if you think you've realised your potential, there's always more that you can do. It's just an unending chain of expectations that might or might not be met.

It's a trap.
You'll never ever be fully satisfied because you'll never quite reach your potential.

How will you know if you're not fulfilling someone-else's potential instead?

Also "Live your dream."

If you fashioned a reality for yourself that exactly mirrored your dreams surely that would be unrealistic?

For example...
If you dreamt about flying without aid over a marshmallow landscape with a chocolate river while friendly people wave to you, perhaps such things are better left in your head.

You're also setting yourself up for disappointment and tooth decay when you realise that the real world can never be completely saccharine; you can't defy the laws of physics and that for the most part, people would be too busy with their own lives to wave or even care.

Seriously though, you can't make reality exactly match your dreams. There will always be circumstances that you didn't prepare for or dream about.

I don't understand why NT females are so bitchy to their friends in public.

I am a female and when I sometimes go to the mall or out somewhere by myself, I hear a lot of awful things said loudly mainly by NT females to their circle of friends.
I mean are they trying not to have friends?
It confuses me.

how easy n/t's get bored amaze me.
I can entertain myself for hours whether it is a craft or hobby, on the internet, concemplating the state of the universe, stimming with what ever I can find.
drawing, painting, reading a book, watching a butterfly hop from flower to flower, doing chores around the house, helping my mom with a project, educating myself, talking to friends, playing with my dogs and bird, practicing photography, writing poetry....the list could never end in the ways that I can entertain myself.

However n/t's act like it is someone else's job to entertain them. My brother is like this...when he comes to visit...he is about to climb the walls because we dont have a tv. I dont own one cause I think they are idiot boxes, but he has no idea how to entertain himself.
However, I can entertain myself quite well for at least 30 min. twirling a pencil between my fingers or rearranging house decorations perfectly symetrical

That heartless wake up call that mother gave me, the moment I told her, that Pete Quaife passed away. I did more talking to my dad, than to my mum, this summer. It's always been that I was closer to my mum...until now. I needed some sympathy and empathy, not a stupid wake up call. I know that the 10 guys who have been members of The Kinks are older. I know that people don't last forever. I just don't care about my generation and the things that are associated with it.

Hugs.

Embracing acquaintances upon meeting.

and what they don't get bored doing

I feel like I have been put in prison-hell-wanna die when I am with my family [already refused this with friends] and someone walks in with 2-3 dvds and the plans are to watch them back to back. I want to run out of the room screaming. I'm looking at the boxes trying to find the lenght of the film, so I know how long I will be tortured. No one has my tastes in film.

I don't get the inability to function alone. I actually love to be alone. I don't get someone with no interests, craving people. I only have a little window of time I want anyone around, it is exhausting to figure out what to do with them.

Women. I don't understand women. Insert whatever things women do you wish, because I don't understand any of them.

Why one person will give another a shoulder rub or why two friends will walk arm in arm. Wtf are they doing?

Why the gaggle of women I work with coo over baby pictures. They make me sick when they do that. It feels fake.

Those little witty things they say in passing to one another - and pleasantries. I get so confused. I don't know what to say and I'm too slow.

Parties.

Weddings.

Parades.

Hurrying to stand in the middle of or the back of a long line, even if you're not sure what the line is for. I usually just sit and wait for everyone to leave, and then there's magically no line to stand in for half an hour. Ta and da. Also, I'm not gonna bother to care if I don't know what the line is even about. I mean... wtf?!

Why people think going fast will get them somewhere quicker and why haven't they figured it out yet it doesn't.

Why people think pushing the elevator button will make it come quicker. Maybe it's a stim they have as they are waiting?

constantly complaining about "the economy"

Geez...I've heard the whining and moaning since I was a young 'un.

I mean...a good economy lasts 2 1/2-4 years if the people are lucky, and it's their own stupidity that brings them down all the time.

If they don't understand the logistics behind it, why do they keep complaining about it?

Maybe that's just me cause economics is a big thing to me, but...I just don't get the desire to b***h and moan about it. It solves nothing; and it's not like most of the people are gonna understand it better after they complain about it...

It's pure "Care Bears and fairies" logic. All "fluffy clouds, sunshine and rainbows".

I wonder if there's a (I don't know if I can really call it a conspiracy) to protect children from the real world for as long as possible.

Kids are to be surrounded by santised hyper-reality: theme parks, play areas, organised activities, saccharine kids shows for as long as possible. Especially if the creators of these environments can make money from the parents insecurities.


I wonder about those so called "soft play" areas. I wonder if these are the childhood equivalents of "padded cells".

I'm not saying that kids shouldn't be protected from dangers that they can't defend themselves against, but surely this is going a bit far?

What about going outside into nature?

It does come as a dreadful shock to realise that not everyone in the world has the caring demeanour of a cute cuddly teddy. Wishes don't always come true and people can't walk on clouds without falling right through.

Banter.

Why do people push the TV remote control buttons harder when the batteries are going dead. Thats not how electricity works.

The tendency towards favouring enhancing or not weakening social connections over making decisions based on what is morally right or wrong.