Comment on Where are you supposed to put your eyes when you're not using them?

Flaqueman@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The age old question of “am I autistic or was everyone I grew up around just an asshole?”

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It could be both!

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  • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Probably just assholes.

    I like to call that place I go to in my brain when I’m not even having a thought “The Nothing Box”. The Nothing Box is where nothing happens. You climb into your little box, and it’s practically like being braindead. You don’t think, you don’t see, you don’t hear, and you don’t feel. You’re just nothing for a short little while until some asshole rips you out of your peaceful and quiet Nothing Box, complaining about you not listening, staring or whatever.

    The nothing box is a magical place where you get to just chill for half a minute. Worries don’t matter, life doesn’t excist, all that is, is nothing.

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    • treep@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      My parents always did the “what are you thinking about?” when I was spaced out in my nothing box, and to this day do not understand why this made me angry. a) if I wanted to share my thoughts, I would have done so, if I’m not sharing it’s none of your business! and b) you destroyed my sweet nothing moment! That short respite from my always-on brain, lost because you’re nosy!

      Makes me mad just thinking about. Glad my love doesn’t do this (he wouldn’t be my love otherwise, I guess).

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      • Wrufieotnak@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Hm, you put into words what always bothered me about it, but I couldn’t exactly form the words to describe it.

        Nowadays I would be glad to be able to get into the nothing box again. Always on brain it is, sadly, for me.

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you are asking the first part is probably true, and for the people you noticed the second part is probably true.

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  • peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You’re on lemmy asking about a behavior that you do not understand fully. And you question its social connotations.

    The first one is… pretty obvious. Welcome home.

    And yes everyone was an asshole too. They still are in fact.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I mean, I’m not qualified to diagnose someone else with an ASD, I’m just gonna say that it sounds a little weird but hey we like weird here.

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  • mrmisses@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Definitely assholes. Who doesn’t stare off into space from time to time

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ve been wondering this quite a bit lately.

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  • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes.

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