- Learn more about yourself. Where you’re best at, where people interact with you best, and stuff like that and about different social interactions.
- they feel like an outcast
- They don’t feel accepted
- born to suppress/mask your true self.
- Social interactionis always awkward, uncomfortable, and very confusing. Feels forced. You always think about how bad you came across. You feel like everything you say or do becomes misinterpreted.
- always feeling displaced
- Small talk:
- You can never understand the language of small-talk
- what’s the purpose of it?
- always on a different wavelength
- logical brain is much stronger than the emotional part of your brain
- open, honest, straightforward
- They find it hard to understand and feel empathy. “why do they say they want advice but don’t seem to be open to it”
- just get to the point. idw read between the lines
- a public, conscious isolation
- a constant sense of lost: relationships, jobs, etc…
- Intense interests or nothing at all. Nothing in between (hobbies). Ppl don’t respect yr obsession → hard to connect with other ppl abt it
- You need to bring things to completion. You can’t leave tasks undone. Even if you have a flight, you have to catch. But if someone demands a task from you, you avoid it.
- You lose track of time. They can spend hours upon hours working on something without feeling the need that they need to take a break
- their amigdala never shuts up
- avoiding the world. They like staying in their safe space
- They’re not the best at taking in criticism or feedback. They think that the other person is attacking them. So they feel now that they should attack back.
- They sense joy and comfort in very random things, which results in them enjoying these experiences more than a typical person would.
- They might know certain topics very well, but it’s very hard for them to explain it to people.
- it’s very hard for them to answer questions because they overthink it. Some of them like texting because it gives them unlimited time to respond. But consequently, they put so much energy and effort into it which of course is draining
- they fear being misunderstood → they wish they could take back what they said
- misunderstanding can cost jobs, relationships
- resulting in social anxiety
- (Atypical)² → they are atypical and what they want to say is too. That makes it hard for them to be confident to share anything atypical
- Allowing themselves to take a second and think before they respond. Either that or having the ability to announce to everyone else that they would like to take a second and think about something. Or that they are not in the mood at the current point in time.
- they are visual thinkers
- Hypersensitivity or undersensitivity. You either feel too much or you need more stimulus to feel something, like pain, for example.
- Sound sensitivity: very annoying noise
- They can’t stop themselves from spotting errors and gaps.