nilescrane wrote:
A couple months ago, an NT friend invited me to a barbeque for his birthday. I didn't really want to go, but I figured he'd just bother me for not being there, and I also thought I was being a good friend by going. The next day, he said I was acting awkward, that I was dressed like I was going to a club (I was wearing jeans, a white button up shirt I'd slept in, and sunglasses)...said that my sunglasses looked like Ray Charles sunglasses and that the clothes I was wearing didn't suit my personality.
Even before this, he'd always comment on my social awkwardness...in a judgmental way. It's almost like he thought he was superior to me because he's a type A personality and owns a house (that he got off a foreclosure in a bad neighborhood.) I told him that the only reason I went was out of respect for him and that I didn't really want to go and that there's a lot of things I could say about his lifestyle, but unlike him, I'll take the high road. (He's a dinner-table racist, avid gun owner to the point where one time he was packing in a restaurant when we went out to eat and he joked "You never know when a (expletive n word for black people) is going to mess with you." It's almost like he hopes one day someone will rob his house so he has an excuse to shoot someone "in self-defense.")
Anyway, those comments by him kind of changed how I behave toward people, especially online. And two months later, I don't miss him at all.
yikes man. i knew a guy kinda like that...always thought it was his right to keep me in line or something. out the door he went when he told me one day he was "correcting me"