Christian T
Well-Known Member
Is anyone else a little fed up with this pattern in neurotypical behaviour of denigrating whatever is incomprehensible to you as a cowardly defense mechanism?
It just makes me so mad sometimes that they NTs can get away with casually dismissing something because they can't understand it, whereas aspies who do that have a communication problem.
For example, one of my scene-starters during drama class utterly confounded my fellow actor, who exclaimed "I didn't get that at all!" and laughed for dear life. I know if they set up a strongly NT scenario, and I cackled and cried "I don't get it!" I'd be subjected to many patronising looks and remarks.
Perhaps to make this thread less aggressive, I could ask if anyone out there believes that having to conquer the incomprehensible on a daily basis makes them more willing to make an effort to understand something before ridiculing it for self-preservation.
Oh, and I do understand that some instances of this are trivial and I shrug them off, but some, like this one in drama, really get to me, and I'm not saying that all NTs are lazy thinkers all of the time.
It just makes me so mad sometimes that they NTs can get away with casually dismissing something because they can't understand it, whereas aspies who do that have a communication problem.
For example, one of my scene-starters during drama class utterly confounded my fellow actor, who exclaimed "I didn't get that at all!" and laughed for dear life. I know if they set up a strongly NT scenario, and I cackled and cried "I don't get it!" I'd be subjected to many patronising looks and remarks.
Perhaps to make this thread less aggressive, I could ask if anyone out there believes that having to conquer the incomprehensible on a daily basis makes them more willing to make an effort to understand something before ridiculing it for self-preservation.
Oh, and I do understand that some instances of this are trivial and I shrug them off, but some, like this one in drama, really get to me, and I'm not saying that all NTs are lazy thinkers all of the time.