u/IdiocyInverted

Has anyone else noticed that neurotypicals love shows that "make fun of everyone" and "offend everyone" and "everyone is a bad person" and then decide to genuinely do that in real life. I'm not blaming the shows themselves, Family Guy is a guilty pleasure for me, I'm blaming the people who aren't mature enough to realize that TV is not real and you should not live your life based on everything you see on TV.

If they recognize the shows are offensive and mean, they should realize that's the joke right? That it's funny because the characters are behaving inappropriately and such behavior isn't something you should imitate? And that if a character has some harmful belief or does something immoral, usually they face consequences or they learn a lesson that they were wrong at the end? There's a reason people always make fun of couples going "OMG we're like Harley Quinn and the Joker!" because it's such a lack of media literacy.

I had some online friends who got really into South Park and became insufferable pretentious douchebags about any real world issues because they watched the South Park episode on it and believed every word of it. They didn't consider other sides or look into the issue in any more detail, consider any progress or advancements since the episode aired, they were insistent that Eric Cartman said it so obviously it's true. They stopped being able to think critically or have any opinions of their own and would jump to getting offended and insulting me when I brought up any issue they didn't learn about on South Park.

The worst is when people try to downplay actual lived human experience or science because they saw a cartoon that says otherwise. No, you do not know everything about Tourette's because of that one South Park episode. No, your understanding of racial issues should not be based solely on fictional stories from American Dad and Simpsons. These shows are written by predominantly white adults aiming to make a wide audience of people laugh. Cartoons can be based on real events, but they can also be based on a strawman argument or misinterpretation of the issue.

My NT dad LOVES this book. He won't stop trying to get me to read it. Has anyone else experienced this.

I also read a fiction story for college where part of the plot is a girl's dad getting her this book, with real quoted passages from it, to illustrate how awful and tone-deaf they are to her problems. Then months later my dad suddenly got obsessed with this book.

Does anyone hate when you say something is hard or you're struggling with something and then neurotypicals suddenly know how to fix your life. Like yeah I'm sure that waking up at 7 every day, cooking and eating three healthy meals, exercising 3 hours, meditating, having a job that accommodates me and isn't stressful, going out with friends every day, and falling asleep exactly at 11 every night and having stable housing would make me happy but I don't have that and you telling me to JUST DO THAT isn't helping with anything. Do they actually think anyone wants this. If you have everything figured out why are you so mean and miserable all the time.

And I know that neurotypical's ass isn't doing that, you half ass your job you hate, eat the same leftovers for a week, and fall asleep on the couch at 2 AM with Fox News at max volume. They're always so rude and miserable so if they think anyone can just fix their life the way they describe it, why haven't they done it?

I don't deny that this is true sometimes but it's WAY less frequent than people who pull this think. I personally do my best to account for people's disabilities because it's really not that hard to just use tone indicators, not use sarcasm or mean jokes, clarify what you mean if they ask, etc.

But then there are people who hear it on Family Guy or South Park and if you get mad about them being ableist they immediately jump to "having a disability doesn't make you perfect" Yes i KNOW that but I still want basic human decency instead of you immediately assuming that being disabled makes me a prick.

And even then, disabled people have to deal with tons of ableist shit embedded into society and people willingly trying to make things harder for them, maybe if they get mad about that it's something YOU DID that set them off?

Do you ever realize just how irrational the things that ableists get up in arms about are?

Having LGBTQ characters in movies or TV. Restaurants offering vegan menu items. Gender-inclusive bathrooms. Lines for disabled people at theme parks. Disability leave. Juneteenth.

They love to protest things that don't really concern them but make things easier for people who are either in minority groups or living with disabilities.

If an ableist tells you this, ask why they feel so threatened. If they're rude to you, tell them that their favorite sports team sucks and that Two and a Half Men isn't funny.

Idk if this is just an ND thing but it feels like a complete invasion of my privacy. When I was on vacation, my dad kept taking pictures of me even when I asked him to stop. I was also taking a couple photos of myself too when I liked the scenery, so it wasn't like I wasn't documenting anything. Even like, I let him into my bedroom and he takes pictures of the entire place. Why do you need that. He even recorded a video of me crying and stressed out while on call with a professor whose class I failed, I didn't know I was being recorded, and he happily showed it to me a few months later.

It got to the point where whenever someone took a picture of me without my permission, I just flipped off the camera. It made them mad but at least it ruined the picture. Just ask me first and I'll let you take a nice picture.

After I have a dream, I like to write it down in a big list so I can see if there are any recurring patterns or why I might have dreamed about that. Sometimes I only remember brief snippets of them, other times I generally remember the entire thing.

NTs think hearing about dreams is the worst thing ever so punish them by telling me what YOUR dreams are like. I wanna hear the really random and funny stuff.

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Wow this game was awful, please never play it. Lots of bad level design, tedious platforming, blind jumps, and death pits. Set had some fun challenges to work with for what the game was. Hardest achievement was beating it without any deaths, you can beat the game in 30 minutes once you know how but it's still not fun.

I'm enjoying playing Apple II games, but not being able to save properly makes them a lot more tedious. I'm currently playing through Cranston Manor and attempting to save using the methods listed here here https://retroachievements.org/forums/topic/20750, but it doesn't work. Attempting to reload a save just bricks the game. I tried installing a new version of RAppleWin but it didn't work. Is there anything that works? I don't see the last modified timestamp in my SAVE.DSK file updating so I'm wondering if it isn't writing properly.

When I was a kid I went to a very special underfunded public school where they could help deeply troubled "kids with Asperger's" like me. My parents knew I had autism so they dumped me here and they could never understand why I hated it so much and why I never wanted to go to school.

We didn't have a school bus, nor was I driven by my parents. A middle-aged man in a generic white van would pick me up in front of my house every day. He was cool though, my parents made me go for tacos with him once.

The class was full of "helper teachers" who hated me in particular. If I misbehaved they would lock me in an empty room for the rest of the day. It was a solid blank white room with nothing in it. There was a clock but my teachers took it out of the wall so I didn't even have that. If I wasn't out of the room by the end of the day, I would start the next day by immediately walking through the classroom and being locked in the empty room again. And my work would just keep piling up even though I wasn't in the classroom to learn any of it.

They also made me HANDWRITE APOLOGIES FOR WHATEVER I DID. Half of the time this wasn't even my fault. Once I couldn't write down a math problem because a teacher was standing in front of my view and they were pressuring me and yelling at me and they got mad when I didn't do it? I literally couldn't. I couldn't speak and I was freezing up because I was dealing with a grown man threatening a neurodivergent child with a countdown.

So kid me decided to do whatever I could when I was locked up. I would fake good in a painful criss cross applesauce sit like they wanted and they would give me a pencil and paper to do my work. I wrote notes for help and put them up to the window and the teachers would stand to block it. I tried sliding notes under the door and they caught them. I wrote "HELP" in huge letters on the wall and sat in the corner crying. Then I had to clean it off with a pencil eraser. This was almost every day at school for me.

Eventually the teachers decided to actively harass me? I'd tell them about songs that annoyed me (because, you know, I trusted adults) and they would go into that same room and play those songs on repeat. When the class got to watch a movie, they would take me out of the room, sit me in a corner, and put their hands over my eyes for the entire thing so I could hear it but not see it, which again, I specifically told them I didn't like. When we got a reward for solving math problems and the principal did something super crazy, I was locked in a room the entire time even though I helped solve those math problems.

Outside of getting locked in a room and bullied by teachers, here's some increasingly bizarre stories from the same school:

-The class was ten boys and one girl. We all became complete simps competing for the attention of the one girl in class. I was sure that she liked me best, but I witnessed her accept a proposal with some younger kid on Valentine's Day and I felt so much rage. Basically I got cucked when I was 7.

-They took us all out of our classrooms to sit in an auditorium, the whole school, then played Bob Marley's Three Little Birds over the intercom for a straight hour. Nothing else happened the entire time.

-This was around the time schools got super dedicated on "healthy eating" but offered no actual idea on how you were supposed to do it. 7 year old me would obsessively exercise and run laps after every piece of candy I ate and cried that eating a single chocolate bar would suddenly make me fat. I was severely underweight.

-We had Superflex which is the most comically ableist thing ever. If you exhibited any autistic behavior like... having too much energy, or getting distracted, or switching topics in a conversation, then the teachers would yell at you that you were being POSSESSED BY SUPERVILLAINS and that behavior is BAD AND WRONG and you should just STOP IT!

-To encourage us to read, teachers set us up on one of those quiz programs where you can take quizzes on books to get points. I don't remember if we even got anything out of this, there were no prizes or anything, but we all started competing like crazy. We all learned to read My Weird School and Geronimo Stilton because they were the shortest and easiest and they were always the same story. So nobody read anything that was actually challenging because we just wanted points fast.

-I misplaced my lunch one day, got to eat peanut butter crackers that they had if poor kids didn't have lunch, these were the greatest thing I had ever eaten and I immediately started plotting ways to get rid of my lunches so I could eat them again. I could have just asked my parents to buy me peanut butter crackers but no.

-Teachers and my mom decided I was too angry and gave me a red journal called my "Bad Things Book" where I could put whatever I wanted. I promptly drew a picture of me murdering a specific classmate and they took it away.

All I can say is that I'm doing better now and I can't believe how pathetic you would need to be to bully a neurodivergent 7 year old. I'm still very mad about all this though, it's pretty firmly etched into my brain.

Everyone's seen this right? NTs saying that any sort of activism is just so the person can feel good about themself and look down upon others.

YES I look down on you if you're openly bigoted and hate everyone who's different than you and are deliberately making things worse for marginalized groups and utterly refuse to learn or expand your perspective or change your ways.

Gender roles are for segregationists and dumbasses. Basically a bunch of old men in power didn't want women to do anything so they started peddling bullshit about it.

Even as a kid I hated how everything meant "for boys" was just gross and disgusting. And everything for girls is pink and plastic and sparkly.

I hate that as a man, I can't dress nice? All the clothes they sell for us are so boring. Caring about your appearance, wanting to be clean, skincare, and having emotions are being stigmatized as "not manly"Cosplay and Halloween are the worst because all the costumes for men are crude and offensive and all the costumes for women are slutty and sexualized.