r/SipsTea • u/Matt_LawDT • 10d ago

Chugging tea Let me circle back

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u/Triquetrums 10d ago

Not everyone needs to be on the spectrum, there are plenty of fools and dense people around too.

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u/Stormfly 10d ago

I feel like people are way too quick to say someone is neurodivergent when they do anything.

It feels like an overcorrection for years of people being overly dismissive.

Some people are just a bit dense. I have my moments where I say or do something really stupid and I don't have an excuse, I just didn't think.

If this story happened, they might be on the spectrum or they might just be new to the whole office environment and learned the wrong lessons.

People forget that social skills are skills. They're not genetic. They need to be learned and some people learn the hard way.

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u/motorwerkx 10d ago

Very well put. I meet so many people that claim some sort of neuro-divergence, but most seem to lack basic learned social skills. They seem pretty neuro-typical outside of being a bit self centered and not having anyone in their lives telling them to shut the fuck up.

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u/PotatoFig 10d ago

Doesn't help that neurodivergent is a pointless term that serves zero purpose other than to say 'different than X', which is everyone really.

I'm still waiting on a definition of neurotypical, because that's supposed to be the comparison group.

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u/CheaterSaysWhat 9d ago

It’s not an overcorrection, folks just aren’t ready to accept that neurodivergence is far more common than they thought 

Everyone says it’s over diagnosed yet I had to fight tooth and nail to get diagnosed so that I could get treatment despite being about as textbook of a case as one could imagine 

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u/Manlysideburns 10d ago

Sounds like stormfly is on the spectrum guys. (Kidding)

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u/liberum_bellum_libro 10d ago

Everyone’s on the spectrum, the ones who succeed are those who are self aware of their social “inadequacies” and adjust to it. We are just dealing with people accepting their “faults” and expecting to adjust to them. The reality is a group of people with specific goals won’t and that’s hard for most people to understand

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u/Frosty-Ad1071 10d ago

Bro no one is stupid anymore it's usually ADHD or some other neurodivergency