NT's are wierd too

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It seems that a lot of time we all post about NT's and it comes across as if they are the most well adjusted and normal people ever.

Not so.

I know you all know that, but I wanted to start a thread about NT wierdness.

My daughter and her fiance have a friend who comes over who has a severe phobia of shrimp and paper towels. When I say severe, I mean severe. Somebody my size, and old like me, could actually chase him out of the house with a shrimp on a paper towel and he will hyperventelate. He's NT. He's about 6-3 amd 225 and in weight lifting shape. But he will run from me if I have a shrimp. Once, I tried to wipe some food off his shirt with a paper towel. He ran. He also does horribly dangerous stunt type things for fun. By this, I mean he saves money and takes trips to dangerous roads on mountains with no railings which snake around and he rides a skateboard or dirtbike down them. Yet, he is afraid of shrimp and paper towels.

My daughter's fiance, besides being the nicest person in the entire world has a strange habit. No matter how much toilet paper is on the roll, when he goes to the bathroom he will get a new roll out from under the sink and use it, then sit the rest of the roll down on the counter or tub. And he leaves the magazine he's been reading open on the floor. Every single day he does this.

Post your favorite WTF moments of NT behavior here.

Frances

Women complaining about men not taking them seriously while wearing shirts that show a three inch cleavage line. Of course a nt male will look at their boobs instead!

Using the common sense phrase frequently when their life is full of preventable misfortunes.

One of my carers had a bad experience as a kid and cannot eat vegetables! He will only eat them if they are heavily disguised and even then he will try to avoid them. I also don't get why so many people are scared of spiders. Okay, I could totally understand if we were in Australia, where spiders can really do some damage, but the worst I have ever got from a British spider was a nip! No one believed me, but yet they are still scared... (says a girl who is terrified of Crane flies...)

Oh, so if you're female, you can either be sexually attractive or taken seriously, but not both?
That's very interesting.

Some NTs are more rude than any Aspie could be... and to make it worse, it is most often intentional!

My almost 6yr old daughter's situation comes to mind. On the way to school this morning, she went over to a classmate, put her hand up to wave and he stuck out his tongue at her and told her to go away, not in a joky manner, but in a mean spirited way. She was really upset and I told her not to bother with him as he's always like that. Then we got into the playground and she went over to a few girls. They were talking about the family challenge, as it was the final day for entries - we had to make a circus animal and trailer. Peanut said to one, 'I think I can guess yours is an elephant', (more than 50% so far have been elephants, as was ours). She said it with a smile and there was no malice in her words. The other girl shouted at her, 'At least it's not just sewed like yours,' (grammatically incorrect but she is just 6). I asked Peanut to come away from the cheeky little so and so. I also think there was a bit of jealousy as, although I say it myself, we put in a lot of effort and it is rather good (we made a soft toy).

The irony is that my daughter is the one about to get social skills training (social stories and the like). The other two are apparently 'normal'. If that's 'normal', they can keep it; I don't want that for me or my daughter. There have been several other similar incidents and, as far as I can tell, they are bullies in the making. I'm glad I'm mum to Peanut and not one of them.

Also, I recently watched, 'How to lose friends and alienate people'. It's based on an autobiographical story and the writer describes himself as having something like Aspergers. His brother is diagnosed and he considers himself to be a lot like him. Whilst I was watching it, I thought he was the only normal person in the movie.

I don't know what you mean with this, I often notice the outline of men's penises in tight jeans, I don't consider them less intelligent because of it!

Apparently it's not reasonable to complain about sexism. Plus it's probably any given woman's fault for having breasts in the first place. /sarcasm

It's strange how we refer to a non-autistic person as being 'neuro-typical'. How would we know unless we did a brain scan? lol

Statistically speaking, ~99.1% of the population isn't autistic.

The most weirdest stories you ever read in the papers are all behaviours of NTs. AS is never mentioned unless it's an article exclusively about a person with Autism.

I heard about a woman who kept the corpse of her husband in her house. Now, she must be weird to want to do that, because even I wouldn't do that, and if it was a normal mundane thing then it wouldn't be in the papers. My mum laughed when she read it and she shook her head and said, ''some people....''

I don't believe in ''you can't be weird unless you're an Aspie''. Now that is both offensive and stereotypical. Some people just haven't heard the saying ''takes all sorts to make a world''.

I do really wish I was NT, but my reasons for that is not ''because I will then be a well-adjusted and very secure person without any problems in my life''.

Yes you dont need to be aspie to be a weird person. But I dont like that one as an effort for people to tell me "oh no your normal". My co-worker is fairly weird, dont think he's aspie. Well could be, but i hypothesized hes too social, hes even super social after a long night shift.

Kind of like "A Rose For Emily" yes?

This makes me think of an entirely different, but related, topic.

Are Southern Aspies less likely to be diagnosed because we tend to have a bit more wierdness down here that we tolerate and write off?

We actually say down here "Well, so and so is crazy, but he's not hurting anybody, so it's ok". Crazy can mean anything. From wearing the wrong football teams shirt to thinking your house is overrun with ghosts to the point where you call the cops at least once a month.

Note: Cops can't get rid of ghosts, if they even exist. Why, oh why do you, wierd neighbor of mine, call them only late at night when I'm sleeping and the flashing blue lights out front wake me up and I'm afraid they are there to tell me some horrible news? You ruin my night monthly, crazy lady! Also, ghosts probably don't exist. They are just things we like to talk about.

We use euphamisms. People like me, we are called "peculiar". People with classic autism are called "slow". We know what we mean by this, but it simply sounds nicer to say it like that. It's something that has been banged into our skulls by grandmothers since we were born. "Hush up right now and be still! She is a perfectly nice girl, she's just real peculiar and I don't want to her you talk about her bad again!" I'm sure that was said of me, many, many times.

Frances

Well, I can't quote this, but people with larger breasts are naturally perceived as being more promiscuous and less intelligent. By showing their goods, they're making the stereotype happen. If they cover up, they're not going to be seen as the typical big-breasted ditz and they then won't feed into the stereotype. Sad but.. true (to a certain degree).

Everyone is weird. Weird is a subjective concept. Anyone who is different from yourself in a noticeable way, or even in a subtle way, is someone you probably class as weird.

My mother always has to read before going to bed no matter how tired she is. That is her nonfunctional routine.

A woman calling the police on McDonalds because they didn't have anymore chicken McNuggets.

At my old job, some man threw it toothbrush away and then he changed his mind after he checked out that he wanted his toothbrush back and that toothbrush was all worn out. He could have bought another one but instead one of the desk clerks calls the housekeeping office asking for that toothbrush. But that room had already been cleaned so the boss assistant and the other two room attendants had to dig through their trash to get that toothbrush out and I thought that was so disgusting. I would have just bought another one if I were him since they don't cost much.

When I lived in Montana, our boss has the room attendants leave the pen on the table right next tot eh notepad, not attached to it because some guests had complained to the housekeeping office that they couldn't write down the message they got because they had to take the pen off the note pad to write and they would miss the message because they didn't get the pen off the notepad in time. All they had to do was take the pen off first before listening to the darn message. Here is something worst, you can't even tell these guests at any hotel suggestions like "Take the pen off the pad first before listening to the messages" or "You can always buy a new toothbrush" you get the idea? And they say aspies are sensitive to criticism?


When you work in stores or in hotels or for customer service anywhere, you will get the weirdest complaints and those are strange NTs.