In the spring, a young man’s fancy turns lightly to thoughts of gentle fervor and quiet convictions :)https://twitter.com/herosnvrdie69/status/1341181409415868419 …
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By around 40, even the dimmest person has recognized that labels are like taxes. You want the minimum you can get away with. You certainly don’t celebrate them. But 18-30 or so, they seem like prestigious “free” prizes. Participation trophies.
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I think one reason I never ventured down such paths (besides the wrong temperament) is I’ve never tried to join any social circle or made a bid for acceptance in any group that didn’t express active interest in me. The “inner ring” syndrome is something I’m weirdly immune to.
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I’ve always been way too busy chasing down non-social bunnytrails of personal interest that can be pursued alone and don’t involve forming opinions of other humans. That seems to confer some sort of immunity.
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As a teenager, most of my surplus attention was on astronomy, airplanes, history of science, “how things worked” books, world history, wildlife. Pure nerdery. I was smart enough to process and navigate social stuff easily but did not get actually interested in them till my 30s.
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Interesting. I don’t think I’ve ever presented as subversive except when I intended to. “Accidentally subversive” doesn’t really compute for me. Factoring in social context is pretty much unconscious second nature, not something I have to consciously try to care about.https://twitter.com/DPritchett/status/1347960116079980545 …
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I think I've taken this even further, into being actively suspect of the (sometimes real, sometimes opportunity) cost of joining any group that actively expresses interest in my membership. I'm a Marxist... not Karl - a Groucho Marxist!
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I think this is a common ASD experience: difficulty remembering to care consistently about social power structures. They’re _interesting_ but do you habitually defer to authority figures? Authority-conscious folks tend to lash out when you present as subversive.
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Oh. So you are Groucho in reverse!
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