NTs and how they are re your interests?

I have what is ,I believe, a heightened interest in doing online tests (IQ and other). Several times NTs have called me out on it. Admittedly I post quite a lot about the results, but as far as I can see I'm not harming anyone though I might be boring them. Often such remarks from NTs smack of disapproval , ie 'How could you be so obsessed with that?' , though I believe my interest is at the milder end of the scale compared to the interests of some here.

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  • Bored to death - simply put. 

    All they’re interested in is petty, chit chat, burble, banter, brouhaha, Babel, criticism, double talk, small talk..... Anything intersecting? Only if you’re into adult Barbie & Ken - Barbie & Ken are basically the NT world as grown up. 

    Oh - I think some NTs like that Made In Chelsea too :) 

  • I completely disagree and i dont like this "us and them" mentality. Maybe im just lucky to know some interesting "neurotypical" people. I was obsessed with Love Island last year. Does that make me "neurotypical?  Absolutely not. It was something completely different for me which is probably why i was so obsessed. No one else i knew was watching it. 

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  • I completely disagree and i dont like this "us and them" mentality. Maybe im just lucky to know some interesting "neurotypical" people. I was obsessed with Love Island last year. Does that make me "neurotypical?  Absolutely not. It was something completely different for me which is probably why i was so obsessed. No one else i knew was watching it. 

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  • Today it’s surveillance capitalism - data as the commodity. 

    Yeah - I think gay people still feel that. Lots depends on where they live and how they look. 

    I look large and threatening apparently - so I’m told but honestly all that’s in me is pure LOVE  But I feel like I’ve got a million pounds to share out in info but everyone finds it’s threatening too! 

    I work for free sometimes and then even that is treated with suspicion and abused 

  • Do you think gay people in the past felt the same.. in a "hetreosexual world" ? I do think its the same side of the coin but LGBTQ has progressed much further.

    I think its a matter of perception. I feel lucky to be in this world and notice a lot of yhings other people dont do. On the other hand if you talked to me about capitalism then yes that is definitely an "us and them" mentality.

  • I thnk this forum makes me feel raw every time i come on it. Becasue it is mostly us saying how sorry we are to the NT world :(

  • Hey yeah - exactly. I was think that too but resisted :)

  • Science itself is an autistic creation. Or Autism itself is science try to talk to normal folk. 

    I have always known this and its the one tging that makes me autistic. Seeing the true nature of the universe and how it works. Not why it works but how. 

    I can see both ways - The Maya (society, nature, the system, cars, culture, people etc) or the other side. 

    The real reality that is hidden beneath words. If you go non verbal - its there right in fron of and behind us. 

    It look like - Whatever i choose. :)

    Of course those episodes as a child were scary as hell. Like hell on earth - seeing whats behind the veil of maya

  • Pretty much - The Big TOE

    The Thoery Of Everything.

    Starting when I first ever looked up and noticed the stars in the night sky. Like yesterday I remember, I was about 4-5. Then at 9 we did astronomy project at school - That is when I saw the inner workings for the first time, in a Newtonian sense, or like what i reffer to as The Fishtank Universe. The FTU is how people see reality today. Even top scientists still think space is like the empty parts of a fishtank. Or they think it is like a snooker table where one ball hits the other - cause and effect. 

    We now know that tht is wrong. Some do anyway. 

    I undertstand nowadays why Im into that stuff and how it has built this illusion of space and time - Maya

  • Im sorry if i have touched a nerve. I can see this "dualism" is happening right in front of my eyes. On this thread.  Yes im aware of what happened to 2 of the contestants. I think i was watching this programme for different reasons to most people and like i said it was a one off.. something out of the ordinary which i dont usually partake in. One of the contestants last year was autistic. 

  • Hi Wavey, what are your interests / hobbies?

  • Hey - you should ask the guy who just posted about suiced in another thread whether its an Us and Them culture... 

    Nowt personal by the way - i dont even know you. You are just a few sentneces on my mac screen. :D

  • Love island - thats the one where the constestants kill themsleves? No?

  • Anything you can name in this nasty culture is designed to make us fight with each other. 

    In the words of Hendrix - Every 'Inch Of Earth Is a Fighting Nest'     

    Look up - Framing effect, and Lockstep thinking, then you'll see :)

  • Well - those NT people I thought I knew, I still know - my closest friends. Guess what - they thought they were NT too, just like I did. There is an Us and Them, society and that is that. That is what our culture teaches us. No escape. If it aint Us and them , NT and ASD, it will be us and them - Tory v Labour.

    We are taught toi be dualistic - it is in our DNA as westerners. Period.