I was working on a personal project when a friend visited. I went through a quick series of successes and failures with my project and openly emoted at each, afterward he said to me "I've never seen anyone go through so many emotions in such a short amount of time."
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My boss has got very high EQ, but tends to have fraught, tense relationships with our female coworkers (I described it to my husband as working with a mother and daughter who don’t get along- they say a bunch of things that seem nice and also seem to hurt each other a lot and I don’t know why).
She sometimes says passive aggressive things to me, but it always takes me too long to parse passive aggression in person, so I respond completely earnestly. This seems to confuse her without being rude, and she’s just vexed by me.
Actually, passive aggression in general makes me feel very neurodivergent.
Honestly this seems like the best way to deal with someone being passive aggressive. If they have a problem make them actually say something.
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…not until now…
Had 2 psychologists refuse to work with me, after they got to know me
Psychologists don't just refuse to work with neurodivergent people, if they did that would be a lot of patients. There is a lot more context to this statement that you haven't shared.
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Probably in their mind, but not that I'd care to pay attention; so not obvious to me.
Human beings are diverse. defining a human as "divergent" is meaningless and so fucking dumb. Psychologists seem to be really bad at statistical analysis; and/or data collection that is representative of the species. But they're maybe good at conning mugs to pay them to denigrate people who don't fit their world view, or confound their predictions.
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A friend posted a link to something and mentioned me saying "you're hyper literal brain will like this" and when I got done being annoyed about the typo I realized for the first time I am excessively literal.
Another time at lunch with a friend she mentioned in an offhand way that I have anxiety and that was when I first realized what anxiety is and that it's not normal to feel the way I do all the time.
It took me revisiting this comment to see the type and uh.... AAAAA
and when I got done being annoyed about the typo I realized
I love this excessively literal description :)
Does my doctor who stopped in the middle of an appointment, looked at me, and said "you know you're neurodivergent, right?" count?
I am learning an instrument as an adult and my instructor commented “You’re so good at recognizing patterns.” That comment hit way harder than it had any right to.
If you don't mind me asking is there more context to this or was it literally in the middle of an annual physical or something
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My psychiatrist does all the time
I was hospitalized for a seizure recently and the nurse ended up going and grabbing me a little silicon bubble fidget thing because I just couldn't stop messing with shit.
Edit: exact phrasing was "let me go grab you something to play with"
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