• Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    1 month 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.

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

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          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(???).

          • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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            Either you’re using “literally” in a non-literal fashion, or you’re using it to make your statement even more incorrect.

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                My tip: don’t argue with people who know not even the terms they are attempting to criticize the use of. +also they seem to be using a sockpuppet account to upvote themselves and write comments

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

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            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.

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    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

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    Sounds like a man who knows what he likes and doesn’t want social involvement with people he doesn’t like. Why does that behavior have to have a name?

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      Yes. I’m tall and conventionally good looking. Had almost the same situation happen to me, except for the shouting “yes” part.

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        I am also above average in heights and looks. A girl would follow me around in high school and harass and make fun of me all the time while still trying to be my friend. I couldn’t stand her at the time but in retrospect she was definitely crushing on me.

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          I am over 7 feet tall and have won several male beauty pageants. Throngs of of overaged women would break into the store next door at night in order to smell the very toilet paper that I may one day use. At the time it seemed frightening, but in retrospect it was pretty flattering

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            I stand just shy of 300 feet tall and my beard is made of tentacles. I speak smoothly the lost language of R’lyeh and let me tell you- there’s plenty of fish in the sea

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      Absolutely.

      She’s extroverted and has some damage going on. Not nominal to chase people down and ask them if you’re annoying. He’s introverted and is already exhausted by her.

      I’ve known a couple of women like that.

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          If she’s asking if he thinks she’s annoying, that’s a red flag. The fact that she ran down to his car to ask him, double.

          But hey, two people with that same energy prob work well together, just not stares at wall guy :)