What do you find weird about neurotypicals?

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In college, thinking that all fun must include alcoholic beverages and getting stupid drunk

I guess that sort of follows from the universal principle that you can’t ever enjoy studying or doing anything else with the main purpose of learning.

I guess their worries about being too into anything is why I’ve always struggled with the apparent moral duty to make sure I never do anything too well. No matter what you’re doing, it seems dishonorable if you don’t sabotage it yourself to some degree.

NT act and think more upon self-interest and short-term interest.

They would rarely act and think globally, as a system, hence long-term, independently from their present own interest.

However, thinking globally and independently from own interest may lead to a globally better system, which would have a great positive average impact on each individual.

They also generally have an overrated self-esteem. They attribute the good things that happen to them to their own value, they just "deserve" it because they assume they are superior to average.

How they all seem to follow the same trends at once instead of being original.

Ok for me it’s like why do you say one thing and mean another or like when you ask them to explain you or show you something it’s not thorough enough or detailed or in general they just vaguely know what they’re talking about and use opinions as facts.

fact Anything I say.
opinion Anything you say.

How they loathe us and adore psychopaths.

When they're very interested in something, it's a hobby. But if we're really interested in something, it's an obsession. Even if it's the same interest the NT has.

That they see autism as trendy and a good excuse for rude behavior (when many autistic people are always worried they'll sound rude and apologize in advance in case they are), and yet use it to insult anyone they perceive as slow, stupid, or just plain cringeworthy.

When they' say you should always be yourself, but when we are being ourselves they want us to stop.

When they claim to be a unique, individual person... just like all the other people in the "group" they belong to.

That when we don't understand them, that's our fault. And when they don't understand us, that's our fault, too.
In fact, everything is our fault.

That they feel it is totally okay to tease or bully anyone for something they can't help having, or being.

That it's okay to hate teenagers because they're to blame for all the world's problems or whatever, but if you don't like little kids then you must be a completely evil person like Miss Trunchbull from Matilda. But kids can be unbelievably cruel and nasty little snot rags with no sense of right and wrong, not these innocent little angels all too many of their parents seem to think, if they think at all. At least in The Sims 3 and 4 adults can have a trait where they don't like children but they can have other traits that are positive. They just get in a stressed mood when around kids or kid-friendly items. Which is why I couldn't give the Sim I modeled after myself the Hates Children trait because it conflicts with the Childish trait and I wanted my Sim to like and play with toys and stuffed animals like I do. And maybe I don't *totally* hate kids, but you know...

And one more thing: how much they care about how people are talking, and how little - what they are talking.

Almost everything. Nothing they do is based on logic, just random unwritten social rules. Here are some weird things they do I find especially irritating:

-Hire people based on who they like rather than who can do the job the best
-Mirroring. I never understood the whole "yawns are contagious thing" yet I've seen it in action all the time. I notice when NTs mirror me...I'll be sitting a certain way and they'll sit the exact same way.
-Look at me like I have three heads if my tone or body language is "off." If I look tired, they stare at me like they're terrified of the sight of me.
-Constant fake coughing
-Sit right next to me when they could have sat anywhere else
-The way they say, "watch out for the quiet ones." How many times do they have to be told the crazy sociopaths have GREAT social skills and will be the loudest, "friendliest" ones??

The lying and false certainty are about the only irritants I don't also find around here very much.