I recently conmented on a meme with a little personal experience and would like to know what you fine peoples take is?
Thanks!
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Allistic people have issues saying what they truly think, so they do all kinds of shit to “say without saying”. And that doesn’t work with us, but they don’t understand because, apparently, we should learn how to understand them, but they don’t want (and neither think they need) to understand us.
So we’re trapped in a world where a good bunch of the allistics don’t care enough about us to learn how to communicate properly with us or to, at least, find a middle ground.
I don’t think you are in the wrong, she just wasn’t able to express clearly what she thought and you weren’t able to understand her message because of the lack of clarity on her end.
So we’re trapped in a world where a good bunch of the allistics don’t care enough about us to learn how to communicate properly with us or to, at least, find a middle ground.
I don’t claim or even think I am autistic, but the inability for people recognize that just speaking clearly and directly would be better all around is infuriating. They seem to have some kind of reverence for people knowing all the ‘subtle clues’ that are based on what cultures someone is familiar with and based entirely on excluding others. Understanding the reasons why doesn’t make it less annoying when the same action could mean different things in the same culture in the same context depending on what is in somebody’s head.
Social cues are annoying and inconsistent even when they are understood. Most people just don’t think about it actively and just change their behavior based on anyone correcting them without thinking about why something is ‘the norm’.
Creepy.
she calls me creepy and to stop stalking her
That’s not a social cue - it’s a direct expression of a preference. And anon didn’t miss it - he ignored it.
Anon explained why he didn’t consider he was being creepy and (girl) didn’t counter it and didn’t mention it again. What does that mean?
“Anon’s” opinion on whether it’s creepy or not counts for absolutely nothing.
Again, it wasn’t a social cue and “anon” didn’t miss it - girl directly expressed her opinion and instead of accepting it, “anon” argued against it, then ignored it That’s not only creepy, but borderline abusive.
I believe the context for your query was that i missed a social que. However within context, she found it creepy i “stalked” her. To which i clarified it was not my intent to stalk or be creepy but was simply just being friendly, as i do with all my friends regardless of sex.
We don’t know about what the girl said after the explanation. She probably didn’t mention it again since it clearly didn’t work the first time.
“Anon” kinda just ignored how she felt/told her what (at least from my perspective) amounts to “your feelings are invalid because that wasn’t my intent”.
As for the subsequent actions, I’d attribute that to high school level mental maturity/not knowing how to handle such situations. Talking it out would be the ideal scenario, though that rarely happens even long after high school time from what I’ve seen ._.
(Rant - that might not be fully related to replied to comment anymore - over :P)
Heterostereotypical women are just as insane as macho men and the red pill crowd.
Taking no as a no is the only reasonable thing to do.
Also, you will notice, that people with a genuine interest in you might say no to something and then if you take a step back they’ll take a step towards you.
TL;DR you ever meet someone like the girl in the post – run, regardless of whether you’re autistic or not.
I think you probably missed some social cues there and may have come off as creepy, I’m afraid. At least her reactions would suggest that. Of course I can’t really say much more without details that are no doubt lost to time.
I think you are spending too much effort to engage with a person that is not engaging back with you. Regardless if your behavior was creepy or not, you are worth more than that. That person wasn’t matching your effort in maintaining a relationship (friendship in this scenario). Remember it takes two to tango, no matter how much you want it, you won’t be able to carry a relationship on your own…
Yeah i was kinda desperate and loney at the time. I mostly decided to share to see if i was actually being creepy or autism had a large role in it.
Im really good at making friends but bad at ending friendships even i know there not worth having as friend.
Thanks for your input.
