Do you acknowledge or adhere to taboos?

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Do you acknowledge or adhere to taboos? Or do you just talk about whatever is on your mind without a filter that society expects you to have in place? I never understood taboo's and don't adhere from refraining discussing those topics like NT's would, I just don't care and will speak my mind. Anyone else on the spectrum find they do the same?

I find taboos dumb and nonsensical, but if I talk about them, people get angry. So I have to refrain from doing it. It's just more conforming to the NT style of "thinking" that we have to do.

I am very careful of who I am around when I express my opinions. The quickest way to make enemies is to express unpopular opinions. I still unwittingly put my foot in my mouth sometimes but not as often as I used to.

I, pretty much, say what's on my mind, without a filter, cuz I'm too old and too tired to care what anyone thinks of me----EXCEPT FOR, at work; there, you HAVE TO, pretty much, adhere to taboos, IMO, whether you like it / agree with it, or not.

opps, my mistake

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I could be wrong but I don't think you actually mean "taboos". Taboos in my society are things like incest, murder, public nudity. Talking about those things isn't even taboo. I come from a very free society though, free speech is talked about alot, and I can hardly imagine just talking about something I'd a taboo.

Where are you from? Taboos in the US are things like sex. There's nothing illegal about it, but it just seems to be a "rule" that you don't talk about it.

Taboos suck, but that's what they're for after all: for making speech less free and getting naïve people who don't expect them in trouble.

I was in a museum at an opening reception "Meet the Artist" event
because one of my photos had been selected to appear in the exhibit.
I started talking with these two rich ladies ...
they started giving me funny looks
and then I realized I had somehow started talking about the subject of death.
When you're an artist, it's kind of expected that you're eccentric,
so they were very forgiving.

In Star Trek fandom, I break the taboo of hierarchy all the time ...
just by walking into a room and announcing that I'm Q.
Really drives people who hold high rank crazy
because I've just given them notice
that they won't control me.

C'est la vie.

...

Taboos vary so widely (and wildly) depending on who you're in conversation with, and who those people *think* you are. So no matter what, you're bound to stumble over something someone thinks of as "taboo" if you keep talking for long enough. I'd probably acknowledge them if I 1) knew what they were and 2) could remember not to stray onto that topic or mention it in passing.

Generally I don't adhere to taboos except in the rare instance where it is obvious and the (more common) instance where the conversation doesn't remind me of something that happens to be inappropriate for whatever company I'm in at the moment.

It's not so much that I do not care at all how other people feel, as that I don't have the same feelings about 'forbidden' topics, and so it is easy to slip.

Oh, boy . . .

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I am known for my exceedingly morbid humor.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mores

Not to be confused with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taboo

No one has mentioned any example in this thread where they are ignoring taboos.

I'm not sure how much I get the concept of taboos. I pretty much say what I have to say.

Since when? Everything in western cultures is saturated with sex. Perhaps because it is (very thinly) veiled, you mean? You don't just go around intricately detailing your sexual engagements to certain people? Otherwise it is constantly referenced and used in almost every facet of life.
As to the topic I'd require more specification - do you have an example of the sort of unspoken rules you mean?
I'm not sure if I break social taboos or not - however there are things I personally consider inappropriate to talk about or behaviour I feel is inappropriate to display which others don't. They barge right on in and flat out ask me about certain topics or display certain behaviours which makes me cringe, as if it's nothing. If anything, I suspect I have more taboos.

Is eating alone a taboo? I eventually realized it's weird to go to a restaurant, even a causal one, by yourself. Especially if you're female. It's made me not want to eat out less but I still do because I go out to eat for food, not socializing.