The ''Invisible'' rules thread

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Is it bad to not wear a heavy coat during winter?

When you get into an elevator turn around and face the front - even if the person you are talking to is at the back of the elevator.

Yes, maybe this one is not really true, I just had a very bad experience, it should be self-evidently to talk about anything thats interesting, so this one should be deleted.

Don't eat a small hamburger while walking.

I do this, I'm told I shouldn't.

Umm, why?



Surely eating a big one while walking would be worse?

I think this thread proves, once and for all, that NTs never make sense.

These aren't things to remember - they are what NTs subconsciously follow without really knowing why. Most NTs are scared to look ''weird'', and they are constantly worrying about what others are thinking of them (I've begun to follow this NT obsession too). Once when I was itching my head my mum said, ''don't itch your head in public - people will think you're skanky!'' and I looked around and said, ''what people? Nobody's even looking at me!''

But - that's NTs for you.

Let me make one thing clear - I didn't make these rules up and expect everyone to remember them, I just mimicked them from NTs. Try showing these rules to a NT (not a weird NT, just a typical NT), and see what they say about them. I bet they will understand each and every one of them.

And with the ice - most people have wrote on here ''it's impossible to control slipping on ice'', and you are right. It is impossible to slip, but to NTs it isn't. They point and laugh or stare at people who slip over on ice in the street, as though they forget it's a cold day with yesterday's left-over frozen snow and water all over the place. Personally, when I'm walking along, I stare at people who aren't slipping when walking on a lethal patch of ice, because I think to myself, ''how are they not slipping over? They can't be real people!''

Yeh - I know. You are exactly right. NTs consider people ''weird'' at the slighest, silliest thing. NTs are so judgemental - I'll never, ever, ever know the answer why.

''NTs are often intolerant of seemingly minor differences in others'' - absolutely true. That's what causes social phobia for people who are less confident with conformity. Life doesn't need to end up this way, but unfortunately it has.

Look - all non-weird NTs seem afraid of non-conformists, and if you break any of these ''rules'' when out in public, you are being non-conformist (to them), and they consider you weird and will laugh at you. I hate trying to keep up following all these rules. I don't remember them all, but they just seem to come naturally to most NTs as they reach their mid-teens, and the rules stay with them until they get old (usually old people won't judge you as much).
These rules make me angry. It's like strangers emotionally dictate eachother too much, and if they notice any difference in a stranger, they will laugh. I really don't know why people of today have become so judgemental of eachother. I've even got glares from other young women because I don't have the hairstyle what they all have.

Probably weird NTs won't judge you as much, but NTs in general will.

If only NT people realised how stupid they are being!

All women have to give intense eye contact and talk like Valley Girls and that all women like to be talked to, like their Valley Girls. No wonder I don't bother with my same sex peers.

Hmm. I must have been not in my right mind then when I went out in the snow really barefoot, and often in wispy skirts.

1. Don't pick at your scalp (people will think you have bugs.)

2. Don't pick your nose in public.

3.Don't stare at cops. (I guess they think you are watching them, and they get suspicious.)

But it's starting to get real hot in November.
I think a good social rule is 'don't wear long pants in January'.
Oh damn, I broke my own rule.
Applies the Southern Hemispherians only.


Gives you a whopping big stomach ache.

I think busy working people would eat on the run. Actually, rushing around and eating and being at the phone at the same time is pretty common.


It's good that you telling these 'invisible' rules for those that want to know.
But I find that being yourself is the only way to be happy.
I don't care what a bunch of strangers think of me.
I don't even care if people I know think I'm weird. I am weird. And they are weird to me.

I also think it's better to be thought of as a non-conformist than to call yourself one. I've met many self-called non-conformists and people never took them seriously. Myself included.

Perhaps wearing flip flops in the snow is against an invisible rule then. But I was just saying that anyone could catch hypothermia (I can't spell it) if they went out like that in the snow, whereas wearing snow boots in the rain or having an umbrella up when it's not raining can't give you any particular damage. I'm not really talking about health rules here - all of these rules here are what NTs emotionally make up and put together to make a full conformist society.

We're all different, some of us don't mind what others think, and some do. I care a lot because I don't like being laughed at, and I often recognise the same people on the bus and in my local town, and I really don't want to get a name for myself. Not only would it embarrass me, it might make all my friends lose respect for me, and all my family to become embarrassed, and I don't think that would do me much justice.

Not all of them do, though. I totally know what you mean though, and I avoid those kinds of people like the plague.

This one I didn't know until this year...I have been breaking it all this time unknowingly!

This is a very hard rule for me to obey, but people seem to follow it strictly, and they look at people who don't.

When on your own: Don't hold a blank face, yet don't show too many emotions.

It's mighty hard, NTs! Say if you're waiting for a bus in the bus station and you've been standing there freezing to death in the depths of the ice-cold Northerly winter wind for over half an hour and the bus still hasn't arrived - it's bloody hard to keep up a nice happy relaxed face and a nice relaxed posture.

I don't know who thought up that f*****g rule, but it's a very common rule because I see NTs doing it.

Why do people on their own have to look so natural all the time, no matter what the circumstances are?
Why are NTs so scared of eachother? I know I’m frightened to break a rule because of the severe judgement you get, I still don’t bother with this rule because it’s too impossible.