I forgive people who interrupt, because that may be how they were raised–they couldn’t talk in their family if they didn’t interrupt. But, I also correct them politely. If they don’t take kindly to my correction, I leave and stop talking to them.
You would not get along with me, nor probably any other autistic person.
You, correcting me, for interjecting, occasionally, when its appropriate?
That’s you disrespecting me.
As I said, we would not get along.
Sorry but spoiler alert for nearly all neurotypicals / people with time wasting socialization norms:
You’re nowhere near as interesting or worth paying serious attention to as you think you are.
The whole… smile and pretend I am actually interested in what someone is saying thing, because ‘that’s the polite thing to do’?
Oh I can do it. Masking is essentially a mandatory life skill; I have a lot of practice at it, in a wide array of different socioeconomic contexts.
But uh no, it’s actually rude to smile and nod when you don’t actually care, because you’re pretending, you’re emoting contrary to what you are actually thinking and feeling.
It’s deceptive. It enables the narcissism and grandiosity of rubes. It’s a kind of lying.
As you say, respect is earned.
If you’re boring, and prattling on, at great length, about something boring, mundane, ill-informed, contradictory, incoherent?
Haven’t earned anything from me other than a chuckle and an eye roll.
I forgive people who interrupt, because that may be how they were raised–they couldn’t talk in their family if they didn’t interrupt. But, I also correct them politely. If they don’t take kindly to my correction, I leave and stop talking to them.
Respect is earned.
What sort or polite correction? That’s hard to do
“excuse me, I wasn’t finished” and then finish the thought
Whooooo…
You would not get along with me, nor probably any other autistic person.
You, correcting me, for interjecting, occasionally, when its appropriate?
That’s you disrespecting me.
As I said, we would not get along.
Sorry but spoiler alert for nearly all neurotypicals / people with time wasting socialization norms:
You’re nowhere near as interesting or worth paying serious attention to as you think you are.
The whole… smile and pretend I am actually interested in what someone is saying thing, because ‘that’s the polite thing to do’?
Oh I can do it. Masking is essentially a mandatory life skill; I have a lot of practice at it, in a wide array of different socioeconomic contexts.
But uh no, it’s actually rude to smile and nod when you don’t actually care, because you’re pretending, you’re emoting contrary to what you are actually thinking and feeling.
It’s deceptive. It enables the narcissism and grandiosity of rubes. It’s a kind of lying.
As you say, respect is earned.
If you’re boring, and prattling on, at great length, about something boring, mundane, ill-informed, contradictory, incoherent?
Haven’t earned anything from me other than a chuckle and an eye roll.