wait so you were down & out with the aspies? do aspies do this??
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Replying to @bigmastertroll @HarambeM
I mean that chess-computer is how I navigated woo party cool kid circles but didn't realize how much cognitive effort it took...
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that's odd that you could even get that to click and seem natural? sounds almost like a pua success story
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Replying to @bigmastertroll @HarambeM
I'd imagine it to be similar. the big difference I notice between pua/trp successes and failures is the successes just kept...
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Replying to @alicemazzy @HarambeM
...doing it over and over until it became natural. to keep faking it so much that it doesn't even feel like faking it anymore
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Replying to @alicemazzy @HarambeM
normie socialization is probably much easier than pua tho, much lower stakes and they have no reason to be vigilant for frauds
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Replying to @alicemazzy @HarambeM
years of retail eventually gave me a feel for bullshit small talk (which is high noise to signal but fundamentally not complex)
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Replying to @alicemazzy @HarambeM
also helps that in hipster music circles flattened affect is a sign of coolness and main status game is esoteric trivia
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Replying to @alicemazzy @HarambeM
not that I was seen as "normal" per se, I had a reputation for being unusually intelligent and lecturing for hours on various...
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Replying to @alicemazzy @HarambeM
...topics when too intoxicated to keep up the front, but "normal" enough that I was ingrouped
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(that was the pleasantest surprise about aspie circles, that when I launched into "lecture" mode I'd get to have real convos...
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Replying to @alicemazzy @HarambeM
...w/ ppl just as interested in and knowledgeable about topics rather than just rambling at a rapt audience)
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