• @gmtom
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    424 hours ago

    Bro where are all these hot neurodivergent women that just want to talk at me for 2 hours straight ?(I can’t carry a conversation and like listening)

  • @LovableSidekick
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    114 hours ago

    Some guys will say anything to get laid, but there’s also a chance he took Psych 101 and thinks he’s a shrink.

  • @DaddleDew
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    1409 hours ago

    One of the very few advantages of being neurodivergent is it is unbelievably easy to make sure someone will never want to talk to you again. Just stop making efforts to act “normal”.

      • @[email protected]
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        63 hours ago

        I just talk to them like I talk with my cats, albeit with a few fewer queries about if they’ve been cleaning their ass.

      • Radioactive Butthole
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        225 hours ago

        I mask fine sober but throw in a little weed and you’re getting a six hour lesson on black hole holography.

        • mad_asshatter
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          33 hours ago

          Does it involve trains in any way, shape or form?

          • @AlpacaChariot
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            52 hours ago

            Anyone who wants this kind of combo should read Peter Hamilton’s Commonwealth Saga (Pandora’s Star and Judas Unchained). Literally a society built around a train network connected with wormholes between planets.

        • @[email protected]
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          I’m arguably more masked when drunk because drunk me knows that I say enough stupid shit even when Im sober so drunk me just decides not to talk.

        • @maniclucky
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          107 hours ago

          Same. Though I’m mute under my mask so it’s a mixed bag.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      You say that, but I remember getting into it with people in college and going back and forth straight into the AM because we couldn’t stop fueling one another.

      Couldn’t get enough of that level of socialization. It’s one of the things I miss most about the university experience. Made a lot of really good long term friendships during that time, too.

      Horrible for hooking up, though.

      • @cynar
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        137 hours ago

        Check if you have a local makerspace or hackspace. They tend to attract a similar crowd. My local one is definitely majority neurospicy.

        • @UnderpantsWeevil
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          34 hours ago

          Oh definitely. My local DSA group has quite a few of them as well.

          But it’s a different game when you’re not on campus, surrounded by people your age, spending hours a day in class surrounded by collaborative peers. If I could quit my job and spend all my time on hobbies (and everyone else could, too) I’m sure my dance card would be fuller.

    • @[email protected]
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      87 hours ago

      I will now proceed to spend the next three hours reciting a sample of the vast amount of useless information I have absorbed from Wikipedia.

  • @[email protected]
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    469 hours ago

    Is… Is this a win? Wasting 2 hours of your life in an attempt to teach a lesson to some rando you’ll never see again?

      • @UnderpantsWeevil
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        168 hours ago

        Feels more like a failure on the part of her date. A big part of active listening is keying in on things you’re interested in and leading the conversation in that direction.

        People with ADHD rambling at me for an hour was what I did before podcasts.

    • Natanox
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      309 hours ago

      If it was fun for you then yes (nothing wasted in that case).

    • themeatbridge
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      88 hours ago

      Isn’t the point that her actual neurological condition made it harder for her to control herself from going on a long rant, simultaneously explaining and demonstrating how his diagnosis isn’t as bad as he thinks it is?

  • Majorllama
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    -237 hours ago

    Both these people suck.

    • @[email protected]
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      Yeah! Having ADHD makes you suck just as much as someone who says ignorant shit about mental health!

      It’s fascinating to me how some people seem to be interpreting her ADHD behavior, which she specifically warned the date about, was somehow a punishment that she did voluntarily and not, you know, the literal thing she warned him about.

      • Majorllama
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        62 hours ago

        I have ADHD. He’s ignorant about mental disorders and she handled his response like a child. They both suck.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 hours ago

          I’m okay with being belligerent to people who are condescending.
          Um. A gold star for her, I guess.

          • Majorllama
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            12 hours ago

            Childish behavior, but you do you I guess.

    • @rockSlayer
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      268 hours ago

      Bringing that up in a conversation about struggles for neurodivergent people, not strictly true but might be appropriate as there’s something to be said there. Bringing that up when a ND person tells you their diagnosis is not ok and denying the person’s experience.

    • @kitnaht
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      -409 hours ago

      Yeah, guy dodged a bullet.

      • Porto881
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        448 hours ago

        Wut? Guy saw the gun and said “that isn’t really loaded” and then went “ouch that hurt” after he’d already been shot.

        • @[email protected]
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          65 hours ago

          I’m adding on here in case there are ignorant people who saw this and assumed she was “punishing” him this way;

          I have pretty severe ADHD and I won’t notice I’ve done the thing (exhausted someone) until well after, either. She warned him, they went on the date, she did the thing (excitedly talk a lot) and then noticed she’d sucked his soul dry. This is an unfortunately normal event for us. Which is why the warning.

        • sarcophagus
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          Woe betide a woman speak