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I might should add that I am the only #neurallyatypical human of the group of eleven. I believe that is almost certainly relevant.

In a nutshell, I know my own mind really well. And my own imagination. I'm accustomed to 5 to 7 trains of thought going on at once without mucking about with each other, though it's often difficult to communicate them all at once. So I see a *lot* of my own thinking and feeling, and so not much I write surprises me too much. Or scares me.

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: This typically has the effect of embarrassing them and/or pissing them off. It has done so to teachers, employers, family, friends, acquaintances, and especially strangers.

#neurallyatypical #actuallyautistic #AspieLife #residentalien #theweirdkid

: I got asked this evening by a new colleague, "Do you *like* acting unsurprised or something?"

I replied, "It isn't a matter of liking or disliking at all. I'm not often surprised, especially by people."

My boss interjected, "Ain't that the fucking truth."

The conversation lightened up a bit after that. The boss is going to talk to the EP for me about those non-rewrites, which is nice. *fingers crossed*

#neurallyatypical #AspieLife #ActuallyAutistic #residentalien #theweirdkid

: If anyone wonders, I am an Absurddhist. I coined the term about a decades ago.

Absurdist + Buddhist

I'm also a hard agnostic, which I means when it comes to the god(s) question(s): "I don't know and can't know, and you can't either. So be kind or at least civil, and don't an asshole."

#TheDisasterAutist #neurallyatypical #actuallyautistic #residentalien #theweirdkid

: This completely vibes with my observation and experience over the course of my life, both as a late-dx autistic human person with (managed-ish, finally) ADHD.

#AspieLife #neurallyatypical #actuallyautistic #residentalien #theweirdkid

: One of the difficult things about #AspieLife is that nearly everyone else is weird AF and behaves really strangely.

#neurallyatypical #actuallyautistic #residentalien #theweirdkid

: I'm in Seasons 52, and the writers are recycling the same shit they wrote for multiple previous seasons, just changing the characters' and place names.

#life #neurallyatypical

: a running obervation of mine since I was a kid and that I posted to my IG this past summer

I understand histrionics but do not "get" it, of that makes sense. Same goes for a lot of seemingly normal, conventional behaviors of the human population at large.

Of course this costs me socially a *lot* and always has done, but I believe I get the better end of things out of it in the long run.

#experience #observation #neurallyatypical #actuallyautistic #residentalien #theweirdkid #aspielife

: It's like quantum physics, all very Eye-of-the-Beholder, but unlike quantum physics, the behavior is Newtonian in its long-range accurate predictability.

#experience #observation #neurallyatypical #actuallyautistic #residentalien #theweirdkid

: I posted this on IG last year and had written it several years ago in my journal.

Nothing has changed, and trusting patterns has near-invariably done me well.

#experience #observation #neurallyatypical #ActuallyAutistic #residentalien #theweirdkid #patterns

: I love poker. It's fun to watch and fun to play. I've been playing (seriously) for fourteen years but have been playing it and other card games since I was six or seven. (I also love bridge.)

Good with numbers and exceptional pattern recognition a la autism her;ps tremendously, though I didn't know I was autistic until I was almost 45. (I'm 52 currently.) Game Theory is fun AH, too.

#poker #games #math #neurallyatypical #ActuallyAutistic #residentalien #theweirdkid

https://youtu.be/rHNx7wI7zNw

: The neuronormative have what I call "unspoken scripts". I mean they don't/won't or perhaps can't acknowledge them, but they become crazy obvious when they don't elicit the expected reaction for others. In this case I mean me and other #neurallyatypical human people.

But *we're* the ones who are supposed to be slaves to routines and scripts and can't handle deviations from our expectations.

#FFS #truth #actuallyautistic #aspielife #autism #socializing #socialmedia #IRL

: People can get really upset, even actively flustered and resentful if when they meet you you already know and understand the things they want to "teach" you, especially if they're things they only just learned or want to but haven't yet.

#neurallyatypical #actuallyautistic #aspielife #experience #observation #humans #people #behavior

: I ordered this book this morning. It's a topic I've written about and read about quite a bit myself since around 2009.

This particular tome is very recent, out just this past September. I'm sure it covers some to several things I didn't know or knew but was/am not up to speed on details. Broadly, though, it's old news, i.e. human nature and How Humans Behave.

#neurallyatypical #actuallyautistic #socialmedia #society #culture #civilization #technology

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-chaos-machine-the-inside-story-of-how-social-media-rewired-our-minds-and-our-world-max-fisher/18203720

: my direct experience and observation about people, good intentions, excuses, ego, and why the same things keep happening over and over

It's reminiscent of "The goal is to do actual things, not merely to talk about doing things".

There's no point apologizing and saying that at least you tried when you didn't try but just said you intended to do something. Absolutely colossal difference there.

#neurallyatypical #actuallyautistic #aspielife #disabledlife #life

: It isn't only the current state of things.

It's the usual state of things.

Humans are strange AH.

#experience #observation #neurallyatypical #actuallyautistic #aspielife

: I've thought this many times over the years but not put it to paper/e-paper.

#neurallyatypical #actuallyautistic #aspielife #behavior

: Yes, the username is not a joke.

I am autistic.

The username is, however, a play on a movie title because I work in/on movies.

#neurallyatypical #actuallyautistic #residentalien #theweirdkid

: When it comes to scripts, some of my friends and colleagues marvel (and sometimes groan) that I can give 3/4 to 7/8 of an 8.5"x11" typed (Helvetica, 12pt, single-spaced) page of notes on just five or six pages of a script.

Some call me "The East German Judge". Some say I'm "ruthless AF but fair". All say I'm good at mah job. (I love mah job.)

I get the same reaction from prose fiction writers I read for as well.

#screenwriter #scripteditor #storycrafter #NerdyMcNerdface #neurallyatypical

: I have long observed and experienced this to be truth, which is why I've written and said for about thirty or so years that a little bit of self-awareness and emotional self-regulation goes a long, long way, however unfashionable and seemingly against the conventional wisdom it may be.

#behavior #relationships #observation #experience #neurallyatypical #ActuallyAutistic #residentalien