Seeing the huge lack of empathy in the world in other avenues, I am starting to suspect they don’t even notice it’s not genuine. Like they would never actually notice the smile reaching their eyes one way or the other.
In my ex’s case, she was well aware of it. Apparently she “practiced it” since she was a child because she got sick and tired of being told to “smile” and that no one looked good frowning all the time. Self-proclaimed resting bitch face model too.
While she could take off and on this mask, it was incredibly draining to do it. But she also couldn’t not do it. It was weird.
Unfortunately for her, she also couldn’t comprehend the emotions of other people at all, and failed to grasp why I might be upset that she cheated on me, and why I might be more than happy to cut her off from the financial security that being married to me provided.
yeah it’s something that makes me quite worried about my dad, i keep hearing him watch AI slop on tiktok and… it’s so obviously fake, it’s always the exact same dudebro quasi-joe rogan voice with a turbopredictable cadence.
how the fuck am i, a stereotypically autistic person, apparently infinitely better at spotting this shit than he, a quite social person, is? Have they just managed to file away at his sensibilities to this degree over time?
That was my biggest WTF when I was diagnosed autistic. I always thought one of the main defining features of it was not being able to read people’s expressions and emotions. I am pretty good at that, even without looking in people’s eyes directly.
i’ve wondered if it’s partially correct but missing important context, like how it turns out autistic people are actually generally really good at communicating with other autistic people.
like what it feels like to me is that autistic people can be better at reading people, we just aren’t born with a cheat sheet in our brains, so we first have to learn to identify things and then we can pattern recognition the shit out of it.
i will never comprehend how people find it appealing, it just feels like i’m being treated like an unpredictable dog
Seeing the huge lack of empathy in the world in other avenues, I am starting to suspect they don’t even notice it’s not genuine. Like they would never actually notice the smile reaching their eyes one way or the other.
In my ex’s case, she was well aware of it. Apparently she “practiced it” since she was a child because she got sick and tired of being told to “smile” and that no one looked good frowning all the time. Self-proclaimed resting bitch face model too.
While she could take off and on this mask, it was incredibly draining to do it. But she also couldn’t not do it. It was weird.
Unfortunately for her, she also couldn’t comprehend the emotions of other people at all, and failed to grasp why I might be upset that she cheated on me, and why I might be more than happy to cut her off from the financial security that being married to me provided.
yeah it’s something that makes me quite worried about my dad, i keep hearing him watch AI slop on tiktok and… it’s so obviously fake, it’s always the exact same dudebro quasi-joe rogan voice with a turbopredictable cadence.
how the fuck am i, a stereotypically autistic person, apparently infinitely better at spotting this shit than he, a quite social person, is? Have they just managed to file away at his sensibilities to this degree over time?
That was my biggest WTF when I was diagnosed autistic. I always thought one of the main defining features of it was not being able to read people’s expressions and emotions. I am pretty good at that, even without looking in people’s eyes directly.
i’ve wondered if it’s partially correct but missing important context, like how it turns out autistic people are actually generally really good at communicating with other autistic people.
like what it feels like to me is that autistic people can be better at reading people, we just aren’t born with a cheat sheet in our brains, so we first have to learn to identify things and then we can pattern recognition the shit out of it.