various questions, concerns, worries, etc.

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okaba
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02 Sep 2009, 10:52 pm

this is basically so i don't have to start a new topic each time i have something to ask. feel free to write here to. who knows? might lessen the clutter. :)




can someone explain this to me? if i had something with me that i think is odd or uniqe the only way i ever know if it is or isn't is if i ask. so i'm always asking 1001 questions. but a "normal" person always seems to know without having to ask. do "normal" people just usually think most things are normal? but how do you know for sure if you don't ask? but they always seems to be right. i just have never understood this.


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03 Sep 2009, 1:04 am

Er the NT' s are right expect to follow social norms even if they bewilder you. Learn to adapt or your in for an unhappy life.



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03 Sep 2009, 8:24 am

Normal means in the "norm", so whatever happens "most" of the time is considered normal. To me, it's relative. What is normal for one person may be quirkey or odd to another. For example, if most american families eat at the dinner table, then eating in front of the TV can be considered odd or unique, but for the families who eat in front of the TV, to them that behavior is normal.

There are probably a lot of people who have the same question as you have, but they just don't ask like you do. It may seem that they "know" what is normal and what isn't, but it may be that they just don't say anything. Again, it's relative.

Also, I think that if people see and process the world differently then their ideas of normal would differ too. If you are AS and someone is NT, they both see things differently so their ideas of "normal" would differ too. That may be why NT Normal is so hard for someone with AS to decifer. They coming from 2 different perspectives.

Maybe NOTHING is normal :wink: