“i am a monument to all your sins” is such a fucking raw line for a villain it’s amazing that it came from halo, a modernish video game, and not some classical text or mythos
classic texts have nothing on the crazy people come up with in modern times tbh
“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.”
– Joshua Graham, Who Is A Fallout New Vegas NPC, Something Most People Throwing This Quote Around Don’t Realize
“If the world chooses to become my enemy, I will fight like I always have.”
– Shadow the Hedgehog in what is widely considered one of if not the single worst game in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise
this is the source for this text and it haunts me on a regular basis
“Do you think God stays in heaven because he too, lives in fear of what he’s created?”
It’s scary – Bell, Cineplex, Shaw, and Rogers are trying to censor the internet and force the end of net neutrality in Canada. And worse, they’re trying to do it behind closed doors.
These 4 companies, led by Bell, are pushing to create an internet “blacklist” of certain websites that all internet service providers in Canada would legally have to block. They know this outrageous proposal would never pass, so first, they tried to sneak it into NAFTA negotiations – and now Bell is expected to introduce its proposal to Canada’s telecom regulator TOMORROW.
Critics are calling this move “unprecedented” and dangerous. If these companies get their way, this internet blacklist would have absolutely zero oversight in the courts. We need to stop this urgently.
If a neurotypical asks you, “What game are you playing?” they’re not asking you to describe the game.
They’re asking you if they can play too.
If a neurotypical asks you, “What are you watching?” they’re not asking you to explain the plot of the movie/tv show to them.
They’re asking if they can watch it with you.
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When neurotypicals ask you “What are you doing?”
What you think they’re asking: “Please explain to me what you are doing.”
What they’re actually asking: “Can I join you?”
Now here’s the really fucked up part. If you start explaining to them what you’re doing? They will interpret that as a rejection.
What you think you’re saying: [the answer to their question]
What they think you’re saying: This is an elite and exclusive activity for a level 5 friend and you are a level 1 acquaintance. You are not qualified to join me because you don’t know all this stuff. Go away.
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This is why neurotypicals think you’re being cold and antisocial.
IT’S ALL A HORRIBLE MISCOMMUNICATION.
I didn’t realize, even thought it took me almost three decades to learn this, that this was such a paradigm changing realization until we had our conversation today.
But it really really is. One of the most bewildering realizations I’ve had is most people don’t talk to learn things unless its related to work or directly towards their own hobbies, all the words and questions are bonding questions if done socially. They are “lets make friends” questions.
So if I answer their question without an opportunity for the person asking the question to give a response or to join in somehow, the asker feels alienated and starts shutting down.
Example: what are you reading?
True answer but not what they’re looking for: Title of book
Best answer for social scenarios where I want to retain/create friendship: This book is about x and y but it has z that i know u have an interest in too.
Example: what are you doing?
True answer but not: drawing
Best answer for friends: I’m drawing but would u like company while I’m working?
And sometimes frankly I’m not in a headspace where I can process people so the answer is something like, “I would like to do something in a day or later, do you want to plan something?”
Tldr: communication is wierd
HOLY
SHIT
that explains so fucking much thank you
(why the fuck do neurotypicals never just day what they mean ie hey this show looks cool mind if I join you)
Further annoying?
They don’t realize that’s what they’re asking and they just feel rejected and go away. So you can’t even ask them what you did wrong because they can’t even put a finger on why they feel the way they do they just know you made them feel bad for some undefined reason.
This actually just made me cry. Why am I like this.
Okay so I’ve been reading some of the responses to this post and alot of them are ‘wtfff’ and some of them are ‘why are neurotypicals like this’ and some are ‘sounds fake but ok’ and this response made me get off my ass because like.
Okay, you can look up videos about this and alot of this is also available in sales methodology and various psychology books. I remember reading ‘Getting to Yes’ and ‘How to talk to anybody’ in high school and it helped me alot but I didnt realize WHY because I wasn’t willing to admit to myself how neuroatypical I was.
But roughly 80% of all communication is non-verbal.
Alot of neurotypicals literally don’t realize how nonverbal it is because they don’t have to think about it
The upshot for being neuroatypical is that you are basically colorblind in a world that keeps talking to you about color.
It fucking sucks. I literally went on a crying jag for three days at one point when I realized how much it sucked and how much it wasn’t going to get easier.
But its doable for stretches at a time. And sometimes I rely on scripts or just… basically assume that if its not work its social. And if its social the question they are always asking no matter what sounds come out of their mouths boil down to, “How can I relate to you so that I can be your friend? Please let me in and give me a reason to care.” (Seriously google those books. Lifesavers.)
I find that if you say something along the lines of ‘come sit and I’ll tell you about it’ it helps a lot
In case any of my followers need this realization. Yes, this happens. I see a lot of notes on this asking if this is even real. It is, I promise you. Can confirm. I do this, people around me do this, I’ve had it directed at me. It’s real. People don’t always say what they mean, and that’s because sometimes being that direct can be seen as rude or awkward. Not everyone can tell how you want to be talked to, so they won’t always know to be more direct with you to help with any confusion. That’s not their fault, it’s just how they’ve been socialized. Anyway, one thing you can do is after explaining what you’re doing like you think they’re asking, ask them if they want to join you. Since you’re sort of busy doing something, lots of people won’t even mind if you don’t even look at them when you ask this. It’ll help clarify their actual intentions if you ask them, and they will also see it as an invitation, making you seem nice and sociable and comfortable to be around.
To neurotypicals reading this: one thing we could work on is being patient with people’s responses. Like, if you ask someone what they’re up to and they just flat out say what they’re up to, maybe ask after listening to their response if you can join them. At this point, it wouldn’t be rude or something to ask that.
gosh but like we spent hundreds of years looking up at the stars and wondering “is there anybody out there” and hoping and guessing and imagining
because we as a species were so lonely and we wanted friends so bad, we wanted to meet other species and we wanted to talk to them and we wanted to learn from them and to stop being the only people in the universe
and we started realizing that things were maybe not going so good for us– we got scared that we were going to blow each other up, we got scared that we were going to break our planet permanently, we got scared that in a hundred years we were all going to be dead and gone and even if there were other people out there, we’d never get to meet them
and then
we built robots?
and we gave them names and we gave them brains made out of silicon and we pretended they were people and we told them hey you wanna go exploring, and of course they did, because we had made them in our own image
and maybe in a hundred years we won’t be around any more, maybe yeah the planet will be a mess and we’ll all be dead, and if other people come from the stars we won’t be around to meet them and say hi! how are you! we’re people, too! you’re not alone any more!, maybe we’ll be gone
but we built robots, who have beat-up hulls and metal brains, and who have names; and if the other people come and say, who were these people? what were they like?
the robots can say, when they made us, they called us discovery; they called us curiosity; they called us explorer; they called us spirit. they must have thought that was important.
and they told us to tell you hello.
So, I have to say something.
This is my favorite post on this website.
I’ve seen this post in screenshots before, and the first time I read it, I cried. Just sat there with tears running down my face.
Because this, right here, is the best of us, we humans. That we hope, and dream of the stars, and we don’t want to be alone. That this is the best of our technology, not Terminators and Skynet, but our friends, our companions, our legacy. Our message to the stars.
I’m flat out delighted, and maybe even a little honored, that I get to reblog this.
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