Jokes on all of you, I don't touch coffee nor tea! Haven't touched the stuff for a long time now. Makes my brain go weird, so I avoid it unless I really need it. Last time I had coffee, it was in driving school, taking the driving test. It was canned, and I guess it tasted okay. It was excessively sugary, but I'm not sure what else to expect from a vending machine. I was shaking by the time I passed.
Tea... it was in an Arab restaurant, and I drank a large amount of the stuff. The buzz was great, but I question if that was the wisest decision. Added sugar, because damnit, that was the best part!
Either way, I'm not touching those things unless I have a pressing need for them. Staying awake to watch Nvidia announce new graphics cards was not pressing enough, and those only come once every 2 years, so it's a high bar for me.
On the nature of if people have crushes on me... I'll consider it "possible bullshitting", but I'll file it under "tentative; evidence quality infinitesimal" just in case. Small changes have been made in the social model to allow for the possibility, but I think it's unlikely that I'll ever need to use it.
Dude who called me handsome (yeah, that's how I'll refer to him on here, unless you have something better) asked me why my name was on the list of disabled people in my uni. That's true; being diagnosed with autism is enough to qualify me to be considered under the umbrella of "disabled people" where I live. I applied for benefits because why wouldn't you if you had the chance? Anyway, he told me that I didn't seem disabled. I don't think he's saying it as an insult, either. Dude was confused.
I apparently emulate a "normal person" so convincingly that I've managed to pass as "normal". There's, of course, the "he's lying" hypothesis, but I don't think someone who gets this confused is actually lying. Surely there were things that would've tipped him off (poor eye contact, perpetual pokerface, no mention of facial expression ever), but no. He seems fairly tolerant of "different" people, so it's hard for me to push the Bullshit Button here.
His views aren't complete shit, either, surprisingly. He said that these mild diagnoses of mental disorders (I suspect he's thinking of autism and similar conditions) are less of a problem with the person with it, and more of a societal problem. It's the people who can't accept those who act differently from them who are "making up" (paraphrasing here) these diagnoses. I think what he's trying to say is that it's pathologizing people who are "different".
Now, I have problems with that. Like, these diagnoses exist so that they don't fall behind developmentally. It's there so that they can be trained to pass as normal, at least in theory. Still, though, for a normal person who doesn't deal with those with learning disabilities (of which autism is one) often, that's pretty good. Plus, his experience is limited; he has a few cousins who suffer from such, but he's not the one dealing with them on a daily basis. My suspicion is that he's only seen mild instances, I think, so I can't fault him for thinking that.
It was more likely that he would deny the existence of learning disabilities outright or denigrate those with them, but I don't see that much of it.
I dunno, is this bad? Are my tolerances too loose? Compared to my current views, it's still not great, but given his background, I really want to give him a pass. There's a "smash glass to RUN" thing in my head, but I'm really hesitant to use it.
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Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O (Read 14963738 times)