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03 Sep 2025, 4:46 pm

Anyone heard that one before?

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03 Sep 2025, 4:54 pm

Yes, but I look at it a different way, because of the way the autism spectrum is so broad that practically everyone in the world could be on it and are just brilliant at masking (all the NTs we know).

But it's not fact or anything so don't be shocked or offended by my post lol, I'm just being ironic.

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03 Sep 2025, 5:00 pm

Vannuro wrote:

Anyone heard that one before?

I respond with, "Yeah, well everyone's a little bit of an a*shole too."

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03 Sep 2025, 5:09 pm

Don't offend anyone, don't worry.
Just the word "Affections."
You're born with it.

Like saying: you have black skin, do you have black skin?
Um!

*People on the spectrum, which is very broad, can be many.
Even on the extended autism spectrum.

Impossible for non-autistics: there are also those who aren't at all.

My father wasn't autistic at all.
We didn't understand each other at all.

Then, who knows!
One day he disappeared.

He was hyper Nt.

Masking autism in a society that doesn't understand it, I think, is normal.

I waste a lot of time interacting with people like non-autistics.

I've learned to say as little as possible to them, only if I really have to.

You more or less know the rest.

p.s.: a thread is made to express one's opinion.
Staying within the limits of politeness.
If anything, it's useful to read things like you write.

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03 Sep 2025, 5:14 pm

@utterly absurd

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I respond with, "Yeah, well everyone's a little bit of an a*shole too."

I may have to use this line if I hear it one more time lol.

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03 Sep 2025, 5:27 pm

utterly absurd wrote:

Vannuro wrote:

Anyone heard that one before?

I respond with, "Yeah, well everyone's a little bit of an a*shole too."

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You reminded me of an Italian comedy where a character named Fantozzi writes on a cloud.
In reality, he's just thinking something about his mega-director.
But he appears in the sky.
Everyone sees him.
They discover that he was the one who thought it.

They make him delete it and then write about himself what he thought of the mega-director.

You won't understand anything, but it's funny.

Fantozzi is an a**hole, it's written after the correction.

He replies: "But I only thought it."

Here's Fantozzi: you don't have to think!

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No reference to the thread opener, let's be clear.

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03 Sep 2025, 7:29 pm

It's what happens if autism is reduced to enumerable number of traits and it's intensity to a point that all human traits are "autism". :roll:

Never personally heard that phrase myself.
But if I heard someone else who ever did, I will laugh at them.

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03 Sep 2025, 7:42 pm

When my grandmother was first diagnosed with Alzheimer's someone in the family joked that we all have a little bit of Dementia because we all forget things at times. Bit of a silly thing to say but I just brushed it off as a joke.

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03 Sep 2025, 9:08 pm

Edna3362 wrote:

It's what happens if autism is reduced to enumerable number of traits and it's intensity to a point that all human traits are "autism". :roll:

Never personally heard that phrase myself.
But if I heard someone else who ever did, I will laugh at them.

A phrase I'm often told.
The point made by those who know me is really annoying.

Also because I can't tell them to go to hell.

It definitely happens.

Unfortunately.
And they're not stupid people.
They believe what they say.

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03 Sep 2025, 9:24 pm

Yes, but I think why doesnt anyone around understand me if we're all autistic.

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03 Sep 2025, 10:32 pm

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Yes, but I think why doesnt anyone around understand me if we're all autistic.

Sorry, even though we're all autistic, it's possible we don't understand each other right away.
Maybe the communication wasn't received or it's unclear to us.
What didn't we understand?

I'm interested, otherwise I wouldn't ask.

You know, I live in a complicated world where most people don't understand what I want to communicate. Because my thoughts are broader than they think. Or maybe it's just me who can't communicate with them.

Then begins the process of trying to explain it better.
Sometimes it goes against me because it seems like I'm insisting.

For me, communicating with them is essential, but I only manage it sporadically.

And it's a major problem for me; it stresses me out.

Also consider the fact that English isn't my native language and Italian is my second (that isn't mine either, even though, having learned it in my first seven years of life, it's located in the same brain area).
I understand other languages literally, but I'm not good at writing them, and in any case, I don't catch many double meanings.

If I have to give a school speech, no problem. Or on a specific topic, then they'll listen to me. But otherwise, it's a disaster for me.

Your sentence struck me again for many reasons, but I've wasted a lot of words (too many).

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04 Sep 2025, 1:45 am

Edna3362 wrote:

Never personally heard that phrase myself.
But if I heard someone else who ever did, I will laugh at them.

Wish I had the gall to do that lol.

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04 Sep 2025, 1:49 am

Tamaya wrote:

I think in that context I can understand it as a joke, I'm not completely oblivious lol, but I've definitely heard it as a serious take and not as a joke.
(Also, sorry about your grandmother.)

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04 Sep 2025, 2:12 am

Actually only heard this once by a Narcisstic Personality type, I believe judging by behaviours . sorry to say,I got taken in by that fellow . Guess my manner of speech , made it pretty obvious .? Did not appreciate what he had said.

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04 Sep 2025, 3:08 am

Vannuro wrote:

Tamaya wrote:

I think in that context I can understand it as a joke, I'm not completely oblivious lol, but I've definitely heard it as a serious take and not as a joke.
(Also, sorry about your grandmother.)

Yeah. I know what you mean.

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04 Sep 2025, 4:01 am

It's one of the main reasons why I keep my diagnosis to myself

It's like having your struggles completely invalidated when people say that

It's rude

To me it's like saying to a person in a wheelchair: "oh we all have days when we can't be arsed walking"

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