• Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    194·
    18 hours ago

    I work with a guy like this. Lead his icebreaker with “I don’t understand people so don’t expect me to interact with you.”

    He’s the most brilliant person I’ve ever worked with. His knowledge is encyclopedic. He will show you how what you’re asking is idiotic in as few words as is necessary. He has no fear of manager or customer.

    He has my eternal allegiance.

  • chunes@lemmy.world
    17·
    13 hours ago

    I’ve been in this literal exact situation. If it hadn’t happened 20 years ago I’d be worried this anon is talking about me

    • Silver Needle@lemmy.caEnglish
      45·
      13 hours ago

      I love how autism has become this fetishized thing that you slap onto all people operating outside of expected parameters.

        • Silver Needle@lemmy.caEnglish
          19·
          12 hours ago

          It is. It refers to things being held in special regard in social arrangements, to an religious extent. The autism discourse, with all the memes and such, does more often than not include a cult-like adherence to beliefs around certain behaviours that anyone could display, shifting focus away from the developmental aspects of autism which are very much real and to diagnostic markers that are less than well defined but are used in clinical settings like: trouble at work/school/kindergarten [Y/N], and certain things the hiveminds of the world latch onto. There I think of people regarding dislike of the “big” light as being an indicator for autism(???).

          • abbotsbury@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 hours ago

            literally what it means

            Literally not

            People treat words like divine tangible streams of meaning when they’re just sounds we make

            Completely unrelated, seems like you have a bug up your butt about something else. Also I’m pretty sure nobody thinks that either, sorry a prescriptivist upset you but that has no relation to what I said.

          • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
            5·
            9 hours ago

            Either you’re using “literally” in a non-literal fashion, or you’re using it to make your statement even more incorrect.

            • lad@programming.devEnglish
              1·
              49 minutes ago

              Maybe, making it as incorrect as possible serves to prove a point which makes statement phrased correctly for the goal in mind?

            • CopLoverBillionairefan@lemmy.world
              1·
              53 minutes ago

              it’s both a literal utterance in the sense of pointing to the denotative meaning of another term (fetishism in this instance) and an inscription, therefore literal in the sense of being a work of literature.

              I also could argue that I used that word colloquially as to add emphasis on the confidence I have in my statement, which is also a correct use of the word.

              If you care be sure to leave another definiens of ‘literal’ that would render my post incorrect in your regard. Frankly I would love to learn more about your point of view on the matter

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
    110·
    18 hours ago

    Wouldn’t quite call this “gigachad” behavior, but it’s good and healthy to not jump on literally anyone who offers, even if you aren’t particularly interested. I suspect anon sees this as “gigachad” because they’re steeped in manosphere/incel ideology (unsurprising for a 4chan user).

    Definitely autistic, possibly including the woman.

    • hector@lemmy.today
      8·
      11 hours ago

      Yeah I don’t associate being rude to someone that is awkwardly expressing an interest in you, cool, or alpha, or whatever the fuck gigachad is, it’s just a dick move, that will make that person expressing interest lose confidence to ask out the next person, which is a problem in today’s society more than ever with online dating kind of poisoning the well.

      There is a nice way to say no, and autism is no excuse for not being nice there.

      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
        10·
        11 hours ago

        We don’t know whether the guy already tried saying ‘no’ in a nice way, though. Sometimes people just don’t get the hint, especially if one or both people in the interaction are neurodiverse.

        • hector@lemmy.today
          2·
          11 hours ago

          I suppose that’s true, but I know many people think their hints are obvious, when they aren’t to a great many of us, at least in the moment after the fact we might realize someone hinted at us. People are dense at times, not just autists either. So maybe they thought they had been clear in their rejection of their attention but it wasn’t picked up on?

          I mean I have been hit on by people I’ve no interest in, and I’ve never been so rude. I’ve also asked people out and had them rudely say no when a more polite way would have been appreciated, and they might have thought hints were clear, but they weren’t to me at all. And I’m not alone in being slow to take the hints, men in general are slow to get such hints by woman they are rather known for it as I understand it.

          • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 hours ago

            If she asked if she was annoying, she knew on some level.

            When I was younger, I used to get so annoyed at hinting disinterest rather than outright stating it, but I eventually realized that if someone is interested and doesn’t have barriers to getting involved, they won’t be coy about it. If they are busy but otherwise interested in a date when asked, they’ll usually say more than “I have plans that day”, like “but I’m free on x day” or “maybe another time?” or “I’d love to go on a date with you but can’t that specific time”.

            If they are evasive at all about it, they are either not interested in general and are just trying to be polite (NOT really for your sake, so don’t start about how you’d rather they be clear, it’s to protect themselves from the pieces of shit that get aggressive when they realize they don’t have a chance), or they have other shit going on that complicates any interest (like it’s hard for them to schedule a date ahead of time because they are already in a relationship and need a good excuse to get away for a date).