Comment on I'm on the spectrum. How do I live the rest of my life?
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 18 hours agowhat bothers and triggers me is people constantly asking why I don’t talk more
I have developed an answer to such questions:
I play chess. If you know that game: when it’s my turn, there are many possible moves. I can make only one. I can think about many of the other possibilities, but usually not all of them. So in the end, I am going to have one answer to the question “why did I…?” Only one is needed. And I am going to have only a few answers to all the possible questions “why didn’t I…?”. Maybe two or three, sometimes maybe even five of these possible moves that I decided against. But there will always be so many more possible moves (about 30 by average), where I don’t know the reason why I didn’t choose to make them. And in real life there are even more possibilities what I could do. Every second I do a thing, and I don’t do so many other things… And that’s why that question “why didn’t you?” is so boring, and so useless.
vestmoria@linux.community 10 hours ago
I’m sorry but I don’t quite understand your answer: are you telling me to start telling them about chess? because if you’re suggesting I think about several possible answers to prying questions well, I’m simply incapable of doing it fast enough. I’m glad you can, but I simply cannot.
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 9 hours ago
Not this time. It’s a theoretical answer to this kind of question. You decide if and when to use it.