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[–] [email protected] 167 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Anon still hasn't figured out they were trying to flirt with one another and he had butted his away into the middle of that?

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I feel bad for Anon getting shouted down for trying to be helpful, but sometimes you've got to stay out of the way

[–] grue 32 points 2 weeks ago

I mean... it's 4chan, what did you expect?

Honestly, by clearly explaining the problem you probably do those anons a genuine service.

[–] Gustephan 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Identifying flirting when you're autistic is hard. I did an extra-cirricular in highschool that involved regular travel for tournaments. One time while on one of those trips a girl on the team knocked on my hotel room door and asked if she could sleep in my room because her roommate was being loud, so I let her in and she slept with me in my bed. I mean slept in a very literal sense; I took her at face value and thought she was just trying to get better sleep for the tournament the next day. I did not understand that she was flirting with me until years later when the roommate who was "being loud" that night tore into me for rejecting her and destroying her self esteem. The kicker is that I was into her, I just had no idea she liked me. It seems very plausible to me that anon is/was that bad at identifying flirting

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Identifying flirting when you're autistic is hard.

Honestly, identifying flirting in general is hard. One time I spent half an evening cooking with a friend while she wasn't wearing a shirt, just a bra. I thought that was a pretty strong hint that she was into me, but she seriously wasn't

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Anon forgot straight people exist

[–] teslasaur 3 points 2 weeks ago

Autist gonna autist

[–] [email protected] 127 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Anon should only speak when spoken to smdh

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

We don't have context but unless she and he were talking to each other for a while anon wanting to help and being turned down not with a 'no, just need him, thanks though' but by being sworn at is extreme behaviour

Anon needs a talk with that friend of his honesty

[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Middle school is, was, and will be full of dicks. How 1/2 of all middle schoolers turn into decent people, I don’t know.

[–] Nurse_Robot 61 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Lmfao you think 1/2 of everyone is decent? How optimistic of you

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Half feels right. The moral median is forever moving up. I can trust most people in a room to avoid murdering, robbing, raping, or engaging in political conversation with me, so that’s my rationale.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Do not conflate fear of punishment with morality. Most people suck, but are at least capable of a very basic level of cost-benefit analysis.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's a big ask of people nowadays, are you sure you didn't set the bar too high. /S

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Pareto principle works here too. It's like 20% are decent, 60% sit on the fence depending on context, and 20% are always awful.

These ratios are more strictly 20/80 the older the sample sets, ie roughly 80% of people over 65 are toxic, in most cases, even when their behavior hurts themselves.

[–] Nurse_Robot 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm inclined to agree with you

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

1/2 of them have no dicks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

The parts of the brain responsible for social behavior don't fully develop until adulthood, and the brain gets rewired substantially during puberty, around middle school age. So, a middle schooler is seriously handicapped when it comes to social behavior.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

How 1/2 of all middle schoolers turn into decent people, I don’t know.

that's the trick actually, they don't.

[–] Skkorm 47 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What a virgin. They were clearly flirting, mind your own business.

[–] grue 31 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Dollars to doughnuts Anon was autistic in the literal sense and didn't understand.

[–] Skkorm 19 points 2 weeks ago

I'M autistic in the literal sense. It's pretty common for us ASD folks to read social scenarios incorrectly. "I just stayed away from girls after that" is an extreme reaction.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Nothing some bullying won't fix

[–] Donkter 30 points 2 weeks ago

middle school

[–] Thcdenton 11 points 2 weeks ago

I got so many memories like this that they take turns fucking my brain 24/7

[–] x00z 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

How does one feel bad about this?

I learned very quickly to determine such people as worthless and to not let it bother me.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Awkward teens trying to flirt with each other, who get mad when their oblivious friend tries to get in between, are worthless?

[–] x00z 7 points 2 weeks ago

Perspective.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Me too. Only took 20 years past high school

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Like that, sadly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks, now I'm less sad about the fact I barely interacted with other people in middle school