I think this website would be a slightly more hospitable place if we recognised the facts that “[outside group whose experiences are considered ‘normal’] are so weird, I don’t get them at all 🥴” posts are very fun to make... and that sometimes how fun these posts are to make causes us to completely misrepresent the experiences of said outgroup. and then stop doing that
I saw someone talking about how neurotypicals are so weird for sending thank you notes to people because they just Get Social Niceties, How Bizarre, What Strange Otherworldly People! Meanwhile I Need To Be Explicitly Told To Send Thank-You Notes!
like... my guy... there are many behaviours about which this analysis would be fair enough but sending thank you notes is not one of them. *everyone* at some point has to be explicitly told to do that. I assure you that ‘neurotypicals’ are not born with some kind of thank-you-note-sending instinct. there is no thank you note gene
‘How Weird It Is That Allosexuals Just Think About Sex! At All Times! Just Want To Fuck Everyone They See On The Street! And Have Completely Uncomplicated Emotions Surrounding Sex! Shocking!’
I am begging you to get some friends and then actually talk to them about their life experiences
