Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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I've gone even older-school than that. First of all I turned off the home answerphone (a good 15 years ago, I'd guess), and more recently, for a number of reasons, I've turned off the mobile one too. If it's really important they can send an email or a text, or if it's a number I know, I'll ring them back. All too often people phone because they haven't really thought what they need to talk to you about and just ramble hoping you'll clarify what they wanted to ask.
It's also partly because when I'm working I can't take or make phone calls (too busy), and when I'm not working, I can't be doing with rambly messages you can't speed read or scroll through to assess for relevance and priority.
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I've gone the opposite. I answer if I know the number and let the answer service screen the rest. They'll leave a message if it's important.
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Bottom line is that I want to make it hard enough to contact me that they have to think if it's worth the effort. In my experience the ones who phone (there are a few exceptions, who I know will only phone if it's the most efficient way) are the ones who haven't marshalled their thoughts... so I'm not going to give them the chance to waste my (obviously tirribly tirribly important) time. The trouble is that once they've left a message the ball's in your court.
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I'm struggling to remember the last message I had past a missed call from a family member! 😂
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Ethnicity options on forms. For example "Asian and Chinese". Where do they think China is?
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There is an existential crisis in the DEI community due to the tension between not encouraging labelling people because of their ethnicity, and asking people to label themselves. Some neuro diverse people with DEI responsibilities have to take time off in order to deal with it.
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I have recently heard, from someone of the younger persuasion (but not that young), the term "neurotypical" used as a pejorative.
I'm starting to think the definition of neurotypical is "people who can't find excuses for themselves"
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I did meet a chap from Pakistan who was trying to explain to someone from China where Pakistan was. Explaining there was a shared border didn't help.
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Yep, after a while it just gets boring. I always start thinking about the Universe and how can it all have started from nothing. Something must have created the big bang, going down that route.
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If reality as we perceive it is simulation something has to have created/evolved the it.
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Why would it be a simulation? Why would there need to be a "before"? What does "before" mean, if time didn't exist? I don't think this is for this thread.
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Hawking wrestled with this question for most of his life. Initially he thought there was no before, and then he decided he was wrong,
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I think eventually you need to resign to the fact that the human brain isn't meant to comprehend nothingness.
Also, if there was a "before", what was before that? And repeat.
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This is something that I have also picked up on, I’m not sure is neurotypical actually exists anymore, nobody seems to own up to it. 🤨
Also found that some people are getting desperate to have a diagnosis to prove that they are ‘on the spectrum’. In the workplace one individual has a formal diagnosis' and can confirm that under particular circumstances they will get overwhelmed, and life can feel very unpleasant. This is a good thing to be aware of when working with them. However, they have also stated that due to condition, they also happen to have a very deep grasp of detail that is great for their role and very good hearing beyond the normal range.
I just wonder sometimes that some of those paying for a private consultation or waiting however many years for an NHS appointment are more interested in finding out what their excuse is (as @First.Aspect states above) and find out what is their ‘super power’.
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We are all special.
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I’m not 😫
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You could have saved him a couple of decades of thought.
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Bearing in mind my brain would take twice as long to download than your brains, I'd argue I'm at least doubly special.
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Even though you're not special I've given you a like to make up for it.
You're welcome
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You are unusual in that respect.
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Now I feel special ☺️
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Surely, by definition, if characteristics can be described as a spectrum then everyone is somewhere on that spectrum.
The urge to obtain a formal diagnosis is fairly obviously linked to how assistance is provided either privately or under the NHS.
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People putting up Facebook posts each time they do blood donations - I get that they want to encourage others to follow suit, but there's definitely an element of "Aren't I a good person?" vibe. Perhaps I shouldn't be annoyed, but I am. Perhaps I ought to worry more about war, famine, and injustice (and Oxford commas).
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I'd say it kept him out of trouble, but I think he still had plenty of mind for other things as well.
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They don't want my blood anymore. They told me so!
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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It’s the sort of thing that makes you go mad if you spend too much time thinking about it I reckon. If it ever got answered would it make any difference?
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Keeping fingers crossed that you won't be needing other people's... 🤞🤞
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They’ve made it such a pain to donate at my local centre that I hardly go anymore. I used to just fit it in around whatever I was doing but now I need to commit to an appointment (which they don’t honour and still leave me hanging around). I tried to drop in when passing once but was pretty much told to go away so I figured they don’t need the blood as much as the claim.
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