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ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  ???

  This is an odd sticking point (same with another comment), it doesn’t even seem relevant to either thought (especially the first) other than it being asserted already by the inclusion of the comic.

  Maybe not-special is true or maybe differences can brushed aside, but either way these thoughts are likely conclusions from their lived experiences and even a nice interpretation of the comic seems more like a cold comfort that doesn’t change much going forward. It probably has more impact if someone does live in/near a big city (particularly a place like Portland), but that is a bit of a leap to assume.

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  • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Thinking you’re that fundamentally different to the rest of the human race because you’re lonely and probably improperly socialized is just not it. Maybe they’re just a bit on the spectrum, which makes them at most part of a sizable minority, maybe you’re just a bit anxious and in your head (and that still doesn’t make you special)… It’s a show of childish self-pity with aftertastes of vanity, IMO, so what I posted was the first thing that came to mind/heart.

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    • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I don’t see the jump from “I have problems socializing/functioning” to “I am special/nobody else has these problems”. I mentioned the first comment because

      thanks for letting me try with you

      seems like a fairly healthy/wholesome expressed thought.

      Also yeah maybe both users are just-a-bit-on-the-spectrum and they probably know it. Does that change something, are they too common to express themselves? Shut up and get better or that’s-a-you-problem?

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      • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        The phrase “I probably lack something fundamental…” is what I’m against. Yeah, it’s a bit pathetic IMO to say something like “thanks for letting me try” (what are you looking for here, comfort? Fishing for compliments? Just for talking?) after a certain age, but you’d be crazy to think I’d say anything but “no problem buddy” to anyone who said that, regardless of how I feel about it. What else would any reasonable person do?

        So, at best you have the tisms (being in the spectrum is too common for anyone to accurately say they “lack something fundamental”, but it’s at least a more accurate statement) and lack a diagnosis, at worst your brain is ok but you’re too childish and self-pitying to the degree that makes me side eye you a bit. It’s not a big deal, and it’s not like I go around telling people to shut up, lol, neither the internet nor the world belongs to me alone and I’m not a villain.

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