List one NT thing you do not understand.

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Couched language / beating around the bush. Say what you mean, speak in literal truths, please!!

Polite nonsense:

Why say "we'll get together next week" when you have no intention of doing so.

Reading too much into what I said:

If I say, I "might" do something. I mean exactly that. I do not mean that I will do it. I do not mean that I will not do it. I mean that I might do it. The decision has not been made yet.

I don't understand why people are so interested in watching sports, sometimes to the point where they'll harass you if you make it obvious you're getting annoyed by their whooping and hollering. You love sports, great. Keep in mind you're in a college dormitory and you're not the only person in it.

Jealousy.

Why do girls always have that same hairstyle when they get to about the age of 14?
(Except me)

Why has wearing shorts with tights or leggins come into fashion, but wearing skinny jeans with trainers looks ''weird''?

Why do they look, laugh and point when seeing somebody disobeying the fashion?

Why are men allowed to have a monobrow, hairy legs, and thick bushy beards, but women have to shave every little hair they have anywhere on their body, yet it's feminine to have long hair on the head?
That ain't it - if having hairy legs and beards is masculine, and having long hair on the head is feminine, then how come men still can get away with having long hair if they wanted to, and no-one looks, but if a woman chose to have something masculine, everyone would look at them and probably hate them?

Somebody tell me an answer!

The phrases:

"Creating Change"

"Inspiring Action"


First off, I'm not really sure if change can be "created".
Change occurs.

Change happens whether people want it to or not.

If change didn't occur, then we'd all be dead.
Change is life.
Entropy (disorder) increases in a physical system over time.


Change is also a matter of attention.
Change is happening all around us, but we only notice macroscale changes in things/people that are important to us. Therefore, change is something we notice and perhaps help along a little, not something that we "create" from nothing.

Action is also something that occurs.
Action happens. It's not something that can be "created".
Inspire is to breathe in.
So "inspiring action" means breathing in action?
I really don't understand.


If you were rude enough to give someone a push for example, you'd have movement (action). So, if you ask someone politely to move, is that inspiring action?

Maybe "inspiring action" is inflating someone like a balloon and observing the result.
Perhaps "inspiring action" is actually a form of pranayama used during meditation?

I have seen lots of photographs of happy, smiling people by the words "inspiring action", so this approach clearly works for some people, whatever it is.

People just can't do things anymore because they need to be done: they seem to need someone to inspire them to do stuff.

What is this all about really?

That wasn't a rhetorical question.

I'm really not understanding why humour is funny. It seems to me that making fun of other people is mean - isn't that what we're told as children? I really don't get why this sort of teasing is amusing.

Oh God I hate this!! ! Even more that I keep believing people when they say it

"promoting innovation"

"encouraging achievement"

"encouraging excellence by cultivating intelligence"

"empowering change by investing in people"

"supporting potential"

"promoting opportunities"

"cultivating potential by goal setting"

"creating success"

"boosting self esteem and fulfilling potential by providing well being"

"embracing the future by celebrating diversity"




These are empty words.
Meaningless, idealistic and non-sensical.
They didn't do me any good whatsoever.
They probably don't help other people much either.
They tried to prepare me for a future that never came.
They give people false hope by misleading them.

People can do what they can do in a given moment: no more, no less.
Expecting people to somehow magically be able to do more than they can do all at once is crazy.

Maybe people don't recognise that staying alive is the real achievement?

How can people embrace the future when now is all that really exists?

How do you embrace an abstract noun anyway?
It's like trying to hug thin air or the invisible man: it's impossible.

What's the point?

Oh god I also say "might" and it's like people ignore that word. I swear they have selective hearing or they didn't hear that word. I am guilty of missing words too when people speak to me. It's like my mind doesn't process all the words so I consider maybe those people have that same problem too so I am not all mad at them thinking they are stupid since I do the same thing or else I am stupid too. Hey just because someone doesn't have AS doesn't mean they don't have difficulty processing information too.

Same as when I say "I am thinking about doing this" doesn't mean I am going to do it. I am still thinking about it. Sometimes I never make up my mind so I never do it. Sometimes it takes me years or months to decide. Like for years I had been thinking about dying my hair blonde, it never happened and I finally decided to keep my natural hair color. It makes me mad when people take it as a yes or a no or I am going to do it. But who knows, maybe from their experience every time someone would say "I will think about it" or "I am thinking about doing bla bla bla" and then they come to a decision "no" so they assume I will make that decision too so they assume "no" from me. Or from thier experience, people have always said yes after thinking about it. Or people decide on doing something after thinking about it so they assume the same with me.

Being greeted with "what's up," which my peer group said constantly around the mid '90s. I never knew how to respond to that. Like, I know they didn't mean it literally, but it seemed odd to answer them with "hello." I felt better about this pet peeve when a German exchange student complained about it, I guess because maybe his native language didn't have so many idiomatic expressions that don't make any literal sense.

I tended to automatically answer with "Oh, nothing much - why?" anyway.
I mean, really - if you want to say "hello" to me then just say hello, dammit.

Why are middle-aged people or old people allowed to say ''dear'' or ''love'' a lot to customers, and men of any ages are allowed to say ''mate'' a lot to customers, but there is nothing for girls around my age to say a lot, except abrupt revised lines? If you are confused (due to my poor vocabulary), I will use role play to explain:-

The cashier is a middle to old-aged woman
Cashier (after adding up the items): OK, that will be £5.99 then, dear.
(Customer gives money)
Cashier: OK, thanks a lot, my love.
Customer: Bye.
Cashier: Bye, dear.

The cashier is a man of any age
Cashier (after adding up the items): That will be £5.99 then, mate.
(Customer gives money)
Cashier: Tar.
Customer: Bye.
Cashier: Cheers, mate.

The cashier is.....me
Cashier (after adding up the items): That's £5.99 please.
(Customer gives money)
Cashier: Thanks.
Customer: Bye.
Cashier: Bye.

Young woman don't seem to talk like the middle-aged or old people or men do, and it makes me feel funny if I did. I hate always having to behave along with the age range.

"Building a brighter future"


The sun isn't like lamp that humans can dim or brighten at will.

Think about it: if the future was brighter, wouldn't some people with sensitive eyes be blinded by it?

How can you build the future anyway?
The future is just an idea: a projection.
How can you build something that hasn't happened yet?
You can plan for something, but you can only build it now.
You can't build it in the future unless you have a time machine, but that might not work.

How can you build an idea?
It's like trying to build an igloo out of invisible bricks.

Building a brighter future is like trying to build a house out of glowing blocks of gas.
It's impossible.

A brighter future: brighter than what?
Brighter than a firefly?
Brighter than a nightlight?
Brighter than the sun?

What about global warming?
Surely a "brighter future" would make this worse?

When people say: "Let's give our kids a brighter future!"

I have an idea: give each kid a flashlight.
It doesn't work that well during the day.
It's fantastic at night for camping and seeing where you're going.

small talk and people's insistence of overusing body language at the expense of explicit speech

I so agree with you "what's up?" is SO IRRITATING

"Nothing"
"Everything"
"I don't know" i usually say this last one because I don't know what else to say. I know its an idiom but how am I supposed to respond!