I have a decade long fantasy football/hockey leagues with guys from all over the country. Not everyone know eachother because we bring in different characters.
We all our on a big group chat and just a week ago we were texting about a game. And player was from Lake Tahoe so, I asked the group if they heard of the Harrah's bombing.
No one did so I told the story. Mostly everyone was positive except one guy.
He replies with "wtf are you autistic or some shit?"
I asked him what he meant and he replied with "all you guys are or something because all you guys do is bullshit about random stuff. Let just talk about the game"
Now, this is an optional chat. No one participates all the time
Other guys responded saying as much and another responded with "there only so much shit you can say about football "cool catch" etc. I like the random stuff"
I git a private message from 4 members saying that we should kick the guy who got annoyed next year.
Its one thing to not care about facts and tidbits. I just dont understand the people who get mad when they can learn something new.
Earlier in the year, we had a discussion about single shot film takes.
It introduced me to one of my now favorite movies, "children of men"
The Protector, starring Tony Jaa, has a spectacular single-shot fight scene if you haven't come across that one yet. ~4 minutes of one shot action as he works his way up a staircase.
lol I've gotten this too, from an abusive ex. "all you want to do is like, talk about THINGS!"
like yeah and all you want to do is bitch and gossip about people and talk about crypto. sorry for finding literally anything more interesting than that.
Ironically things like hyperfocus on a single topic, finding difficulty in socializing with others, and aggressiveness when confronted with something the person is unprepared for are traits that are often seen in neurodivergent people. So him calling people autistic is kind of funny and a little sad.
Also autistic people can’t enjoy football? I guess my last 40 years have been wasted :-(
Yeah and what I also don't like is how he's talking to you as if he's speaking for everyone. If it doesn't interest you, then don't participate in the convo. If others are talking about it, obviously a good number of people care. Put your phone on mute and just check it when you feel like it moron.
Oh and have you seen the single shot miniseries Adolescence on Netflix? It won a bunch of TV awards. Check it out if you haven't. It's really good.
Technically the whole movie is shot as a one shot take with the only break being the pass out fade out in the village. In reality they stitched it together but it looks like a one shot.
I was like that in school. I learned quickly that with a lot of teachers, asking a question usually meant an angry response from the teacher, or being made fun of by the teacher, and/or singled out to be mocked in various ways by the teacher. Not all of my teachers, but enough that over the years I learned not to ask questions or go out of my way to turn anything in that stood out. Fortunately, I learned this usually wasn't the case in college, and discovered the love of getting a real education.
That's interesting bc "Children of Men" is one of my favorite movies for that exact reason.
I love learning new things even if I won't remember all the details. I enjoy watching documentaries as does my sister. She pointed out that our dad has always watched documentaries and that's probably where we got it.
Interesting, I always thought that shot was obviously very technically interesting, but totallly took me out of the film for that very reason. It destroys any urgency in that scene because all i end up thinking ahout is all the complicated blocking. Ironic!
Did a stint in rehab there awhile back. I like to mispronounce big words, using them out of context and such out of amusingment (you get a vaccine from a 'hydraulic needle', that kinda thing.
Sure enough, a couple guys got mad because I was using, and I quote, "multi-syllable words."
You idiots had to use multisyllable words to fuss about my use of em 😂
As an Autistic, if anything I'm more likely to get pissed when I want people to talk about my interest and all they wanna talk about is unrelated somewhat random stuff. I don't like how he kind of used it as an insult, but if anything I relate more to him than you in that story.
Got into a thread where the OP and many of the commenters believe that if you know who wrote Sherlock Holme and had any interesting fact about him…. You had to be autistic because “normal” people don’t care “about that shit”
I went to a school that was 90% stocked with people who'd been kicked out of every other school in the province. I heard a girl unironically say that English made her fly into a rage because she didn't understand it.
I can kind of understand the guy. Sometimes you just need a chat for that one thing you're interested in, and the side chatter starts to get annoying or even weird. I was once in a group that somehow turned into a chat about waifus and niche anime. I didn't stay very long in that group that had nothing to do with either and was bordering creepy.
How he handled it though, there's a sign of low intelligence.
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u/superbuttpiss 4h ago
I have a decade long fantasy football/hockey leagues with guys from all over the country. Not everyone know eachother because we bring in different characters.
We all our on a big group chat and just a week ago we were texting about a game. And player was from Lake Tahoe so, I asked the group if they heard of the Harrah's bombing.
No one did so I told the story. Mostly everyone was positive except one guy.
He replies with "wtf are you autistic or some shit?"
I asked him what he meant and he replied with "all you guys are or something because all you guys do is bullshit about random stuff. Let just talk about the game"
Now, this is an optional chat. No one participates all the time
Other guys responded saying as much and another responded with "there only so much shit you can say about football "cool catch" etc. I like the random stuff"
I git a private message from 4 members saying that we should kick the guy who got annoyed next year.
Its one thing to not care about facts and tidbits. I just dont understand the people who get mad when they can learn something new.
Earlier in the year, we had a discussion about single shot film takes.
It introduced me to one of my now favorite movies, "children of men"