Neurotypicals
Neurotypicals: "autists have such a rigid mindset, they lack situational awareness and they can't put themself in another person's position."
Also neurotypicals: having heated arguments over things where they can't imagine that other people's way of doing things can be as valid and natural as their own way of doing them.
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@tlhInganHom @Stoori also that most non NT’s I know specifically have to go under the mental strain of understanding NT’s ways of thinking so they can word their arguments such that they’ll be interpreted in the way they intended
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@thornAvery @Stoori Exactly
Neurotypicals
@tlhInganHom @Stoori yeah
"You can't put yourself in other people's shoes" is usually NT speak for "I believe you cannot put yourself in my shoes, specifically, because otherwise you would immediately agree with me". I've had a lot of problems related to this where I could put myself in others' shoes and still reach the conclusion that their position was dumb, only to be met with "but you aren't REALLY putting yourself in my place!"
Neurotypicals
@vylion @tlhInganHom ha yeah, so true!
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Neurotypicals
@Stoori Also neurotypicals: *Do a study on autistic people which finds that they're way more likely to decide on what is good instead of what brings the most personal gain compared to NTs*
NTs: Clearly autistic people are bad because they won't do collective harm for personal gain
@x44203 Could you please link to that research?
Neurotypicals
Neurodivergents: gleefully chronicling those heated arguments
Toilet paper orientation?
@minervissa Inside out.
@minervissa
Both equally wrong.
Out creates more friction between the wall and the roll making it more likely to fail.
In creates the risk of accidentally touching the wall and most walls aren’t made to feel nice when touched.
Neurotypicals
@minervissa :D
Neurotypicals
@Stoori i still maintain that Every Single Complaint nonautistic folk make about autistic folk is projection
Neurotypicals
@certifiedperson yeah, turns out to be true one belief at a time
Neurotypicals
@Stoori this post literally made me angry because most NTs I know need their hand held so hard to understand other ways of thinking