: it's a biz hazycloudy glary out, but the weather elsewise is entirely perfect here on Oak Island, NC.

What's funny about being here is when I was a kid, most of the island was old cement roads, small old cinder-block beach houses and scrub and trees. Now it's all developed. It wild. I remember the olden days. LOL

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3/2: I'm not saying that I'm not and/or cannot be incorrect, wrong, inaccurate, or misinformed, because I know I can be. I've seen me do it.

I'm saying intransigence, ego, pride, insecurity, emotionalism, etc., not to mention charlatanry, are and always have been problems. They are a very old and very familiar haunt on the ol' double-helix.

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: from my IG several years ago

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: how I imagine the majority of people and groups meet to solve problems, based on solutions I see proposed and outcomes I see and sometimes must endure and/or escape

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: two latelies about my #AspieLife from over on my IG

#people #behavior #identity #apologies #humannature

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: I posted this to Facebook a while back. it is accurate.

For all the talk of autistics being "slaves to routine" and neurotypicals being flexible and all, my experience is that neurotypicals by and large tend to be just as slavish to routine and behavioral convention than I am and some other autistics are.

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: I do not quite understand that people express surprise, shock, or outrage when people whose behavior normally is antithetical to their sensibilities behave the same ways they have consistently behaved.

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: I know I'm weird, but I have zero desire to need to pay my respects to anyone by going to their funeral and being sad I didn't have or make time for friends. I have absolutely no desire to be in a position to do that at all.

My preference is to pay my respects to them while they are alive, which means staying in touch or at least making the effort to. To me it's a matter of priorities. "Leave it all of the field," as they say.

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: Originally I posted this to Livejournal back in the late 1990s. Then I posted it to FB in the late 2000s. I shared it on IG in around 2017. Now here.

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: a particular feature of my neurology/autism

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: Get To Know Me

Seriously, this will help if you at all want to get to know me.

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1/2: Some experiences and stories you don't share with certain people/audiences because they will react badly to them, and they won't react badly because they're necessarily bad stories but because they can't abide others' life experiences not being the way their own personal narrative of How Things Are says they should be. This I have learned from repeated experience since I was a child.

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3/2: I mean... I understand why it happens, but I don't *get* it, if that makes sense.

I'm like that about a lot of allegedly/seemingly mundane behaviors and social customs I am told I'm supposed to accept as normal and endure, and by "endure" I mean "let go even if/when people get violent about it" (which some have over time, alas).

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: Those awkward moments when someone presents something as accurate that is not accurate, whether by a little or a lot, and you provide the missing information to them. (Verifiable, corroborable, multiple-sourced information.) However, they cling to their "personal truth" because their ego demands it because it isn't a matter of information but rather, for them, about identity.

Those awkward moments happen a lot.

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: a post of mine from a while back over on IG

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: It tends to trigger a fight-or-flight response, not to mention passive-aggression.

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*feeling seen and personally attacked*

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