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Fireblossom
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06 Jan 2019, 6:16 am

HighLlama wrote:
Despite what clinicians say, NTs are not especially skilled at communication. They have a style of communicating based on how they think, just as ND people have a style of communication based on how they think. NTs just consider themselves the human being, not a kind of human being. The approach NTs have to autistic communication seems to be if the autistic person isn't understood, it's the autistic person's fault; and if the NT isn't understood, it's the autistic person's fault. They can tell you when you're socially inappropriate (to their standards), but it's considered rude if you correct a factual error they make, etc., etc. But, I'm digressing a bit :).


Huh, that makes sense.



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08 Jan 2019, 4:39 pm

My boyfriend interrupts the second he's bored of the subject, which is just a strange habit of his. I don't think he can stay on one subject for long, he tends to jump from one thing to another very quickly when talking to one other person. He's done it to my mum before too, and his daughter, and they're NTs. So it isn't me just "breaking rules".

He doesn't have ADHD though, and I would know because I have it myself. He's good at focusing on logical things and keeping organised (he has a very organised mind and is good at remembering numbers). And I know he isn't on the spectrum, because, despite being shy, he's always been good at making friends and he used to be a landlord for a bar when he was about 20, which required a lot of social responsibilities.
No, I think his habit of interrupting people mid-sentence as soon as he's bored of the subject is just a personality quirk.


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