We all have to interact with people. That’s living in a community. But when you do, being nice is all it takes. “He’s a really nice guy, he’s just kinda quiet.” This isn’t an uncommon thing to hear about others. It’s literally a common type of person. But then there are assholes. The way you’re describing it you just don’t care to be nice and you’ve found an excuse in neurodivergence that you’re latching onto.
I guess it’s ‘good’ I can ‘change’ if I so decide? but really, change, for what?
Read Books on ethics, not a book about whether you being rude and off putting means you’re neurodivergent.
You don’t have to socialize. But being a decent person means sacrificing your comfort for others’ sometimes. I’m definitely a huge introvert. But just because I’d rather be alone doesn’t mean I’m an asshole to others. Some people don’t get introverts, it just doesn’t compute for them. You can choose to be an asshole to those people—they’re not doing anything to try to hurt you—or you can choose to be decent. You’re just choosing the former.
I mean…civilian gun hoarders vs the US military? We wouldn’t win. Sure, you could see a long drawn out guerrilla war, but head to head we do not have the advantage
I’ve been accused behind my back of being manipulative, uncaring, rude, and also a sociopath. Once this impression is given, it is impossible to make people change their minds, including management. I usually don’t fight it because, really, fighting gossip? that’s sticking to 5 year old level politics and what’s the point?
Welcome to being an adult. We all think it’s asinine. Some people get wrapped up and completely engrossed in it. They make petty office politics their entire existence. Some people play the game but only to rise through the ranks. Some people stay out of it. You don’t really fit into any of these categories, it seems. It kinda just sounds like you’re a bit of a dick. That doesn’t make you ND, some people are just kinda dicks.
And I don’t mean that as a slight. Some of my best friends I would classify as being dicks. But it’s everything else you bring to the table that matters. Are you so good at what you do that people put up with it? Or are you just kind of a dick with no redeeming qualities?
Finding reasons for being unlikeable or off-putting doesn’t change the fact that that’s how people see you. You don’t sound ND, you just sound like you don’t care to change. That’s different.
It’s not impossible to make people change their minds. Just be nice. That’s all it takes. The qualities of a nice person aren’t constantly changing and impossible to follow for ND people. You’re just making excuses.
This is the problem with self-diagnoses. There is a fine line between being uncaring and being unable to care. One is a bad person, the other person is possibly BPD.
OP, until you get diagnosed with something, leave your excuses for being a dick aside and work on bettering yourself. Even if you end up being unable, it still doesn’t mean you have Asperger’s. Because bad people still refuse to change sometimes.
Never heard of voting against your own interests? Or pulling up the ladder behind you and being a hypocrite?
So you got many explanations about people’s worries regarding the massive privacy and Internet freedom concerns…and you just decided they’re all addicted to porn? Makes sense you’re not on the right side of this issue if that’s how you reason
Off topic but my brain kept reading “secret Kennedy” and I was wondering how many fucking kennedys there were if we’re discovering secret ones
We can only hope that trump does end up dying soon and this comment sparks some massive conspiracy and the right turns on and subsequently eats itself
I think it’s more possible you and the pro- movement are catastrophizing the effects of porn than the claim we might be catastrophizing the potential effects of the bill.
We all grew up with access to porn. Whether that be nudie magazines that were somehow always found in the woods, or dial up Internet porn—hell, we all had access to rotten.com. That shit was far more scarring than any porn I ever found.
Whether the abuse of these censorship powers actually turn out to be as bad as we all imagine, or whether it’s the next tiny step toward censorship, or the one after that…the point is that these are all freedoms we shouldn’t be fine giving up. We shouldn’t be taking steps down this road no matter if this is the straw or the next will be the one to break the camel’s back.
Well personally this interests me because I’ve been looking for any phone that actually doesn’t include gps. So this is also a bit of a privacy phone isn’t it?
Republican Jacky Eubanks said in a recent interview with the site Church Militant
Church…militant? That’s the most unsettling site name I’ve maybe ever seen
Well we gotta give em the benefit of the doubt: say a gunfight started. What better time than when a bunch of children are in every backdrop? Come on, it’s just common sense!
Oh you’re from England? But you don’t have an accent
Where are you located? I thought hot air balloons are really rare these days, like less than 200 in the world
Or am I thinking of blimps?
What do you mean? I can’t even read that it says William Clark
This is a pretty pessimistic take. We are seeing increases in “folk heroes” to increasing repression and violence from the state. That’s a positive trend. The whole world is lurching toward the right. Stop shitting on other people for not doing something and do something yourself. Or encourage others and spread ideas. Start a strike in your town, start a buy nothing movement. Do anything but shit on an entire group of people for “failing” your apparent standards. It doesn’t help—if helping move the world in the right direction is even something you actually care about.
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
At least tidal pays the artists more
Anyone can be a bro, bro
Spoiler alert: none of us actually care about how anyone else’s weekends were or how the other person’s kids are doing. You’re just being intentionally obtuse and tedious