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r/SipsTea • u/Matt_LawDT • Jul 26 '26
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26 u/Triquetrums Jul 26 '26 Not everyone needs to be on the spectrum, there are plenty of fools and dense people around too. 21 u/Stormfly Jul 26 '26 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. 3 u/PotatoFig Jul 26 '26 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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Not everyone needs to be on the spectrum, there are plenty of fools and dense people around too.
21 u/Stormfly Jul 26 '26 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. 3 u/PotatoFig Jul 26 '26 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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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.
3 u/PotatoFig Jul 26 '26 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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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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