honestly, neurodiverse people shouldn't date neurotypicals.
neurotypicals are too weird.
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It's true. They think we're boring, we think they're boring. I remember dating a definitely NT person and was baffled that they never wanted to do deep dives on any topics with me.
Who wouldn't want to spend all weekend with their partner learning about the history of weaving and how various textile related machinery works, then cap it off by marathon playing Loom in robes?! Weirdos.
my NT ex said that me talking about my interest is abuse, yet she has no trouble abusing me till suicide.
If I may be blunt, I don't think that's because your ex is NT. It sounds like your ex is just an abusive asshole. I'm sorry you had to deal with their abuse.
honestly, I'm sorry for traumadumping, took some gummies and I'm not really me.
from now on I'll aim to date neurodiverse people instead, we are more fun anyways.
No apology necessary, I didn't even think of it as trauma dumping. Sometimes things just come up and I think that's okay.
Enjoy your gummies!
aim to date neurodiverse people instead, we are more fun anyways.
I can offer little better advice. Similarly, find someone whose baggage complements yours, so you can have a matching set.
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Excuse me, neurotypicals aren't weird enough. Normal is boring.
I would probably fall in love if I got to hear a 30 minute, passionate info dump on a date.
Definitely. I'd totally fall in love. With coelacanths
I coelacant live without you babes
Too specific. Needed at least a quick refresher on all ocean life first. Gotta let them get warmed up before you hit them with the good stuff.
It's like this idiot had never heard of foreplay
Yeah you gotta leave them wanting more. If you give up the coelacanth on the first date, he doesn't have a reason to come back for a second date.
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Once you hit'em with the "coelacanth is closer related to us than gold fish" gambit, which leads to the "what is fish" manoeuvre, and finish them with a "whales are fish and birds are reptiles" pincer attack, they're as good as gone.
Wait.
Hank Green has helped me see the light. Whales are fish! Whales are fish!!!
Me: Rambling about some esoteric topic that has no practical application to any part of my life.
My Wife: Listening intently even though she has no clue what I'm talking about.
I usually realize how long I've been going on when she starts smiling because she "thinks it's cute."
I don't often feel like I've won the jackpot, but I sure did with this lady.
I also choose this guy's alive wife.
A keeper for sure. Just be sure to respond in kind.
Next time tip the scales in your favor with a more positive approach. Little less coelaCAN'Th, little more coelacCANth.
So she's knowledgeable and passionate about something and can hold a conversation instead of making the other person do all the work?
And he ghosted her???
Exactly my thoughts. Not just knowing a lot about something but also being willing to talk about it. So many people with actual interesting shit to say keep it to themselves until several interactions in. Like Yeats said
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
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Their loss. Nothing sexier than someone being passionate about their interests. I’ll listen to someone tell me about their collection of severed heads if they’ve got passion for it
Same, passion is sexy
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If that was me, i'd text her right after the date asking to subscribe to fish facts.
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I would love to meet someone who had so much enthusiasm for a topic that they want to teach me about it. I may not always understand, but I would listen to her all night long.
This is how my wife courted me, except with René Magritte instead of coelacanths.
You may be entitled to seek compensation.
Why, did someone take an apple to the face?
what's a coelecanth?
Based on the replies you've gotten so far I suspect this may be a joke I'm not getting, but I'm choosing to react as if it's a genuine question anyway.
A coelacanth is a super old fish that everyone thought was extinct, and then one day we just happened to find them alive! They're a "living fossil" animal in that they haven't changed much in a very long time and give us a window into the past. Here's a picture I stole:
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Understandable, I only know what they are from Animal Crossing.
It's a fish you can only catch while it's raining.
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I’d spend 30 min back arguing on the correct pronouncing of qualiacontiks
Hang on, are special interests a mating display behavior???
There was a study indicating it was a common flirting tactic for some neurodiverse people and it kinda went viral.
By "fish people" do you mean like Deep Ones?
Coelacanth facts are hot. But you’d best be prepared for an equal measure of trilobite facts.
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I’m pretty sure my son would have been into this
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