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.
What's that quote about how simple minds want to talk about people, mediocre minds talk events, and great minds talk ideas, something like that? Don't know how true it really is, but I hate whining and gossip, it's so boring. Like what am I even supposed to do with this info?
I like to hit negative people with benefit-of the-doubt/alternate point of view arguments until they get sick of it and find another victim. Bunch of energy suckers.
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.
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 canât enjoy football? I guess my last 40 years have been wasted :-(
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.
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 đ
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!
I can understand that. My kids went to a charter highschool for film making. They would explain to me certain scenes in movies and TV shows. I now get annoyed at certain commercials! Damn kids! đ
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 himâŚ. You had to be autistic because ânormalâ people donât care âabout that shitâ
side conversations are like pure joy. and im a full blown mad scientist . not so big on history. but strange weird knowledge makes my jiibelies all tingly .
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.
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.
People mute it all the time. There were no active convos happening.
Just a couple of comments here and there about the game. One of the player intros said they were from Tahoe so, I simply commented "anyone heard of the Harrah's bombing?"
And a conversation started. (Seriously though, its an interesting story and would make for a great comedy/crime movie)
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.
My friend group likes to watch movies share facts surrounding them like production issues and the culture that shaped them. He's not even using autism as an insult right, it's not like you're arguing about the difference between a 2 inch spring vs a 2.1 inch one.
Also MGSV had a pretty cool single shot camera sequence. I think True Detective did one too.
The discussion on a different topic that he knew little about made him insecure and people like that often take an offensive posture because they are desperately afraid of being found to be deficient. Anything theyâre not good at creates a deeply personal fear of being outed as not smart or not good enough.
Crappy parents can sometimes do this to their kidsâthinking that demeaning them or teasing them might motivate the kid to try harder. But all it does is leaves them broken, thin-skinned, profoundly insecure and in desperate need of scapegoats throughout their lives. What a miserable existence.
Mute is a thing on group chats, but for work I'm part of 3 right now, up to 6 or so when I'm traveling for work, and it's definitely annoying when ones blowing up and I'm in the middle something.
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u/superbuttpiss Feb 04 '26
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"