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   Ciara | Ciaraíoch ? (ciaraioch@mastodon.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 03:28:17 JST Ciara | Ciaraíoch ?

   Think the main difference between the two platforms is that on Twitter when you make a joke you get one haha and two death threats, whereas on here you get one haha and someone earnestly explaining the 6th century origins of the specific road that particular chicken crossed. Yet to decide which is more distressing.

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 03:28:12 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     I was going to respond explaining the autistic compulsion to go into minute details on issues one finds interesting, and our difficulties in not taking things literally, as well as the apparently high density of people in the spectrum around here and the value of mutual tolerance, but, reading your own followups, I figured it wouldn't be fun or welcome, so I'm sparing you of the real thing. erhm... or am I? oops :-)
     
     I, for one, appreciate and enjoy your light-hearted humor, that amuses me in its, how do I put it, community self-deprecation. I loved your parody "explanation" of the fediverse. thanks, and keep it up!
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     Ciara | Ciaraíoch ? (ciaraioch@mastodon.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 03:28:14 JST Ciara | Ciaraíoch ?

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     *gently holding the faces of people on Mastodon who take every joke or light-hearted comment extremely literally or personally* why are you like this. why can't we have fun.

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     Ciara | Ciaraíoch ? (ciaraioch@mastodon.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 03:28:15 JST Ciara | Ciaraíoch ?

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     The amount of people replying to explain that death threats are actually more of an issue than people sharing history facts is 1. the point of the joke and 2. going to make me smother my phone with a pillow

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 11:11:38 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     • CyberSpook??
     CyberSpook, there are so many prejudiced misconceptions in your posts in this thread that I'd have to hijack it to address them. please take some time to learn some more about the autistic spectrum instead of issuing disrespectful, hurtful, and misinformed opinions. thank you,
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     CyberSpook?? (cyberspook@soc.redeyes.site)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 11:11:40 JST CyberSpook??

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     • Alexandre Oliva
     • CyberSpook??
     @lxo
     Autistic people may think that they are the ones who are hated and misunderstood but in my experience it is me who is often hated and misunderstood, and AFAIK I'm not even autistic. So is it the neurotypicals who are hating on autists or the autists who are hating on neurotypicals? It's both. It goes both ways, not just in one direction.
     @Ciaraioch
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     CyberSpook?? (cyberspook@soc.redeyes.site)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 11:11:41 JST CyberSpook??

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     • Alexandre Oliva
     @lxo
     The biggest problem with autistic people here isn't that they're autistic but that they lack self-control and thus tend to pick fights where it could have been avoidel and then make themselves and everyone else disappointed. Noone is watching over them, noone trains them on how to have a civil dialogue with people. And not like they seem to learn or even bother to learn on their mistakes, they're bound to forever repeat the same mistakes, making the place less enjoyable for everyone. They take the position that everyone should be considerate of them while never being considerate of others, thus being a chore to deal with. How are we going to have enjoyable conversations when one side has lots of obligations to fulfill while the other has none? It's just not fun.
     @Ciaraioch