Irrational annoyance... or is it? Part 1 - majority rules.

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Seriously, I want to know. I try not to post "Is this a symptom of AS?" posts but I've been wondering about this quality in myself and whether it is shared by others generally.

I find I get very irritated when people in large numbers (large by my perception) like or do a thing that I don't. I know it isn't right, I would never want to be judged similarly, and yet there I am, irritated beyond all measure because the implication of majority approval is that if you don't like, do, or possess this thing, then you are still more on the outside, still more weird, somehow being deliberately difficult in not agreeing. People do respond as such sometimes so I have some small basis for this reaction.

But it's frustrating to find yourself growing irate over the fact that a lot of people like mint, or Celine Dion, or so many people notice what kind of car other people drive and you don't, or just the fact that people tailgate... when you realize that you're not mad because they're doing it to you or because of the risk but because you try not to do it and they don't. I suppose it's some form of envy. In which case, it isn't AS, it's a personal character flaw.

Where I suppose AS might come in is in the way it often does... being different all your life, you find yourself on the outside all the time, and anything you come across that makes you feel that way becomes poison to you.

As frustrating as people can be to me, I still consider this a largely irrational response. Has anyone here seen similar responses in themselves?

Yes, I often find myself feeling that way! I become irate when people rave about something; some trend or happening. And I find that I don't share their sentiments, and immediately there is something wrong with me! Or, I am made to feel like a grouch, or malcontent, because I don't agree with what ever everyone else is agreeing with.

Add me to the list, although in my case it could be AS or my age. Every man and his dog are ranting and raving about Twitter and Facebook yet I feel zero need to use either facility. OK, so I post on WP but at least (hopefully) I'm doing something useful here.

Vanilla_Slice

I am highly resistant to wearing something if it's trendy and when people go on and on about a car I just look at them blankly. My mother will buy a blouse and hold it up and say " It's a insert brand name here." and I will never have heard of it. I'm just oblivious to that stuff. But yes, I do resist because I don't want to follow the crowd. My father was the same way. My mother accused him of reverse snobbery.

people are just sentient sheep, or lemmings.

now if only I can tear all notions of social structure apart and make people less sheep/lemming-like... that would also effectively make me a god in my own mind >_>


but yeah, I know fully well what ya mean, and it is rational in my opinion.

I don't follow the trends. I just do my own thing. I've been like this, since I've started high school, in 1988.