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Basic Social Skills Guide

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Re: Basic Social Skills Guide

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I've worked with lots of folks on the spectrum and to be honest it's more fun dealing with them as team members rather than "normies". One guy particularly stands out, he joined the team and started off on a solo run with a couple of projects a few others were involved in. A few weeks later I asked him if he'd setup any meetings with the team to get context and, you know, say hello and his response was "why should I…

it really bothers me when people try to assert people aren't actually neurodivergent/disabled because they dislike the person, and seem to want to further justify their dislike on a personal level instead of having compassion for the fact that they're actually disabled . i think people feel the need to assert this because they know they'd be an asshole to dislike someone for refusing to stand up and walk if they were…

Let's have it correct, businesses pay folks to do work. While they make some allowances for what's happening in a person's life, they're not therapy nor are they charities.

If you can't manage whatever you're suffering from sufficiently to do your job then pity for you.

Re: Basic Social Skills Guide

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Calibrate my barometer, good sir. Needed to hang around the 80s a little longer.

Could you explain how it relates to what you were replying to about breaking down funerals?

Sure. Way I see it, unless just epically pissed (many such cases), one would probably have to be epically pissed with the dead person and the people who came to the funeral. What I described is one schema for that.

Re: Basic Social Skills Guide

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you explain how it relates to what you were replying to about breaking down funerals?

Sure. Way I see it, unless just epically pissed (many such cases), one would probably have to be epically pissed with the dead person and the people who came to the funeral. What I described is one schema for that.

What does breaking down mean to you? I thought they meant they broke down crying because they were sad. Not angry. Did you read it as that they destroyed something at the funeral?
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