Annoying Neuro-Typicals

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Anyone have any stories of Neuro-Typicals being really annoying/entitled? I have one:

Ok, so to get home from my high school(the one from the popular show “Skam” btw) I take the tram, then the metro, then walk 20 min from a station near a local tennis court. For a long time last year, every time I got off the train at my stop, a fat bearded man with a backpack, got off at the same time, and started walking in front of me, smoking. And, presumably because of his physique, I couldn’t walk slowly enough for his smoke cloud to be outside the range of my heightened sense of smell. As I have experienced people smoking outside the gym I go to, I have found cigarette smoke absolutely unbearable. I actually had to start holding a handkerchief with a lavender bag in it, when walking to and from my gym.

Anyway, every day, I would have to frequently stop, cough, wheeze and wait for him to get as far ahead of me as possible. Eventually, I found a chance to walk past him, so because I was wearing headphones, I just ran ahead of him as far as I could and kept walking calmly, free of the smoke . He stopped talking the metro at the same time as me a while after that.

Like, I just don’t understand how such a clearly unhealthy man can smoke THAT MUCH?!

It's a dependence that's become a part of his routine. It's good you can't tolerate the smoke. People can actually get lung cancer from second-hand smoke. I used to accompany my aunt to the fire escape to chit chat with during breaks at work. She was a big smoker. I had to stop being around her during breaks because I started to feel physically ill after a while. Problems with my chest and breathing. I can't stand it either. It's a killer. Bad for health.
P.S. Your pic is nice - warming smile - very contagious! But do understand that smoking is prevalent among a lot of people, not just NT's. That auntie that I mentioned smoked much to the point that I nicknamed her Aunt "Chimney". She just had her last chemotherapy treatment - problems with the colon. She's smoked for over 50 years. Once I saw a t-shirt that said, "Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray." I agree. The smoke gets into everything - clothing, furniture, curtains, even food.

It's an addiction, and not limited to neurotypicals, either.

The difficulty is deciding whether to express your discomfort to the smoker, because a lot are defensive about it and might verbally (or even physically) lash out against the complainant.

But if you don't complain you get that torture effect of being subjected to something harmful but out of your control. Smoke torture.

So I get where you're coming from.

How do you know that he’s neurotypical?

I loathe the smell of cigarette smoke and it makes me sick being anywhere near it. When I used to work at my local newspaper as a proofreader, I would get assaulted by clouds of cigarette smoke from my co-workers. One guy reeked of smoke.

That guy you mention is unhealthy in many ways.

Joe90,

You are right. There are much better ways to relieve pain. Cigarette smoking, in the long run, creates more pain when people develop horrible lung cancer.

Most autistic people----even some who are very severely autistic----don't "look autistic."

There are some neurotypicals who actually "look" like they have a genetic problem or something. But they actually don't.

When I read the title I thought this was about being annoying *to* NTs.

And not necessarily by accident.

Everyone, autistic and neurotypical, is "annoying" to someone, sometimes

There are seven billion people in the world

Amy lee scheel b***h had the nerve to tell me that she would tell me whenever I did the slightest thing she did not like and she expected me to change immediately, permanently drastically and cheerfully.

She wasn't willing to do likewise for me

Not even stop jaywalking

Things the b***h did that I didn't like:

talk too much and too loudly

interrupt me to ask what I was going to say

cancel on me, little or no notice

tell me that you used too much toilet paper

say "what" instead of "excuse me"

purposely went out of her own way, to dog sit, when she knew I was afraid of dogs

judgmental attitude. "Cool" this and "sucks" that

All through my life, I've been told, especially by narcissist-types, that I am "annoying."

Most decent people actually don't find me annoying.