List one NT thing you do not understand.

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NTs aren't all that wonderfully clever with ''reading'' someone else. They aren't that good at sussing people out very well because they can't seem to tell the difference between somebody being intentionally nasty/rude/et cetera, and somebody just having difficulties with being social. And I can tell the difference! . The differences are obvious. But NTs can't figure it out. So they decide to single you out, and pick on you.

Why do they think it is so weird for girls to have only one or two pairs of shoes? It doesn't affect (sp?) other people when someone else only ever wears one pair of shoes.

Dancing. I don't understand it, and I never have a desire to do it.

Dancing is just plain stupid beyond belief. I can raise my hands during a rock concert, even make the signs of the horns,if it is a heavy metal concert, but dancing? What a stupid waste of time.

pack mentality. when one person does something everybody does it, when one wears something they all do, when one says something they all say it, when one thinks somethink it becomes everybodys opinion. there is no reason behind it, no thought. it just is.

I don't understand the preoccupation with motivational letters in job applications. It's not like it's difficult to fake interest, and the entire letter is in essence one big formula.

I don't understand the double standards. People expect other people to be nice in traffic, but they can be as anti-social as they like. In our local shopping street, where it's perfectly legal for a person to cycle, I get people who cross the street without looking or walk next to each other, six in a row, and when I'm annoyed by this or brake or use a bell, they go "well, you should be watching out for me". I've actually observed this kind of behaviour multiple times, and the comments are often directed at their own children when they ask their parents why they didn't pay attention. Kids actually know the rules better than their parents.

And that's just a tiny part of the double standards. My parents taught me all kinds of things and rules as I grew up, but I apparently wasn't expected to actually follow those rules.

A far more minor thing I didn't understand was an observation I made a while ago when I was somewhere else. A person I did not know very well invited me for a cocktail party, and I felt obligated to at least go there for a while (even though I dislike drinking). Anyway, we started a drinking game, and I observed something really weird:

You're not actually supposed to want to win a drinking game. Because the loser has to drink and drinking is good, people tend to not take it seriously. So, then, what is the point of a drinking game? Shouldn't it be the winner who gets to drink?

Um... What NT stands for.

Following trends, especially dark ones such as suicide, self-harm, zombies, vampires and S&M/bondage. Most young adult (and regular adult) fiction is loaded with this garbage. Generally, the culture has turned into one big barrel of trash.

Shopping and socialising.

(Yes, it's a stereotype -- but I don't get it at all).

Why they seem to be able to or want judge people based on first impressions.

How they get pleasure from hugging.

How barking dogs do not drive them insane.

The desire for a title at work.
How everyone is amazing!
Motivation behind actions.