non-autistic people talk about people too much

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The worst is when they're not even discussing people they know. Why do folk care what celebrities have to say? The celebrity doesn't care whether you are dead or alive, but you want to share their pandemic thoughts with me. Boooring.

This is totally accurate but honestly now that I'm grown and married to another aspie who was raised as a boy and I a girl I am glad that girls around me "gossiped" a lot as a kid cause I was able to sort of study that and I think its part of why I am pretty good at social skills now. Like, people are mostly just complicated functions of motivation, desire, and anger. If you understand the function you can get better results than even neurotypicals who often don't bother to learn how people work cause they just look at their expressions and assume they mean what they look like.