Are there things you just 'don't get' in life? (as in understand the rules of)

I’m familiar with this too. I walk a fine line with it every time I make myself go to a live comedy gig or similar. There’s some enjoyment, some endurance, and a lot of ‘the fear’ as to the collective goings-on-ness of it all, looking on bewilderment as to how the bustle and easy happenstances of togetherness (couples especially) all just rolls along making sense to everyone who’s in tune with its rhythms. Crowds weird me out like that. The higgledy piggledy churn of it all, with everyone else seemingly surfing it like a wave. 

Being in an audience at a public performance.  Horrible but I keep trying to enjoy concerts theatre outings cinema etc 

awful..
inconvenient…

I sit there having paid for the thought ‘what is wrong with me?’
and I am the only human being who feels this way 

I think that, you are only sure to fail, if you stop trying. Memorise, absorb and understand; that is how you learn to get what you need.  
Obviously if you are an atypical person in a typical world, then it is likely to require more work, but that reality stays the same. 

On the plus side, if you require more information and absorption before you understand, you will likely acquire a greater competency than one who evolved quicker. Perseverance is the greater temperer.

I agree with some paragraphs but disagree with others.

I Sperg said:

Like being forced to consider weird and unnatural stuff from an early age, like "Drag Queen story time". The peak achievement in this area are the record numbers being talked into genital mutilation at an early age in some places, a process that statistically carries with it a high risk of great unhappiness and a vastly increased suicide risk.

A few things I want to say in response to this:

1. Drag queen story hours are essentially just an entertainer in an elaborate costume reading a story in a public place, during the day, where other adults are present. It's no more weird than taking a kid to the pantomime.
2. Transition for children is entirely social. Nobody is performing genital mutilation on those children. If genital sutgery on minors is something you're worried about, that worry would be best reserved for certain cultural practices and and any surgeries for intersex children that aren't necessary for their health.
3. The high suicide rates associated with being trans are greatly reduced when people have the resources and support they need to transition. Much like the high suicide rate in autistic people, the problem isn't who somebody is, but how they are treated in a world that doesn't understand.

I Sperg said:

, but they are having their childhood stolen in other ways.

Like being forced to consider weird and unnatural stuff from an early age, like "Drag Queen story time". The peak achievement in this area are the record numbers being talked into genital mutilation at an early age in some places

I Sperg said:

utter compliance to a sick society, so it really isn't that great for modern children compared to the upbringing that my generation had. 

I'm the same generation as you, but give me the former, rather than the latter, upbringing, any day.

At least nowadays there is more openness and in some sectors of society, more acceptance of difference than when we were growing up.

That to me is a big plus.

They might not send a small percentage of children up chimneys any more, but they are having their childhood stolen in other ways.

Like being forced to consider weird and unnatural stuff from an early age, like "Drag Queen story time". The peak achievement in this area are the record numbers being talked into genital mutilation at an early age in some places, a process that statistically carries with it a high risk of great unhappiness and a vastly increased suicide risk.

When you look at the staggering numbers of missing children here in the west, it would appear that they are also a "consumable item" to some other types of actual very real "monsters".

In other places they spend their days assembling "training shoes" for us, but that is alright because WE don't make children work.  

Then there is the training for rampant consumerism, and utter compliance to a sick society, so it really isn't that great for modern children compared to the upbringing that my generation had. 

You say society is improving, yes it is for some minority groups, and anyone who wants a better life courtesy of the UK or US taxpayer.

However for the average man, his wife and their children, "civilisation" is rapidly spiralling into degeneracy and inescapable digital tyranny. 

I agree. But i would add that human civilization is improving all the time and can still be improved..  Although it might not seem like it whilst you are in amongst the muck, mire and brutality of it all.  I'm just setting things in their historical context. EG Our children are no longer forced to work as Chimney Sweeps.

Put your keys on the glass and close the lid hard.

Maybe the replacement will not have that issue?

The weather talk is my go to when people try and make small talk with me because I can't make small talk about anything else so have kind of "trained" myself it's what people talk about... it gave me a giggle when you said weather.

Jenny Butterfly said:

"Why did you have me if you knew I was only going to die?"

It's crossed my mind so many times. Why. I'm sorry you asked it so young. It's a burning question and thought, has landed me in hospital since 2016.

If only we could see the small print at the start of the journey.

I struggle to get my head round this.

I think I've felt like that on and off for a long time now.  When I was seven, following a death in the family, I tried to console my mother by telling her that I would never die.  Of course, she gently explained to me about death and everyone dying eventually, mostly, she explained, when they were very old and tired of life anyway.  But I became upset too and asked, "Why did you have me if you knew I was only going to die?"

In other words, I don't like the terms and conditions of life either.  If only we could read the small print before incarnating!

I feel the same.

I like Style but not fashion.  I once encountered someone with ASD who is a model.

They are.  I enjoyed them as a child but after that they were a nightmare.

We have nothing to lose but our minds!

Impractical people of the world unite!

Toasted bread is a gift from the heavens

So true ...

It's not always obvious, even when things are right in front of you. 

Toasted bread is a gift from the heavens. I'm craving it now. 

Some years ago, my mum asked me to order a new cooker because ours had stopped working. Now sitting entirely idle, I have a three-foot-high oven with no hobs.