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Am I German or Autistic?

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Re: Am I German or Autistic?

#121
post #104

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I could in theory. But inside, it often feels that I'm doing everything as early as possible. Just that I'm overwhelmed. I also don't value being on time too much. I was recently late to a date of sorts, 10-15 minutes, which I think is a big reason why she didn't want to continue anything. It's never on purpose. It just happens. If I'm tired, I leave bed as soon as I can, but it's always a cost benefit analysis, alwa…

Occasionally things will happen that you can't account for. I agree. But from my perspective, the added example story was somewhat in your control. You just optimized for the wrong things. Of course this is easier in hindsight too. Had you not run out of fuel, would you have missed the traffic too? My fuel tank is always full. I fill it when it gets about 1/2 empty so that I am not caught stranded because I never kno…

It's likely I would have missed the traffic jams had I not had the fuel incident, since this was 5AM, roads were empty at the time.

And yes, everything is under our control and nothing is. It's a matter of perspective. Everyone prioritizes, since we have limited time. We choose what we do with that time. Just that, some people, sometimes me included, have such a time debt that sucks their time that it spills into their "obligations".

As for optimizing for the wrong things, this is also to some degree outside control. I obviously realize on a rational level why it's "suboptimal", penny-wise and pound foolish. But change requires effort and time. Which are sometimes used up in other more urgent endeavours.

Re: Am I German or Autistic?

#122

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I fully agree with this sentiment. I set a high standard for my punctuality but I don't care if you're late. I just silently judge you.

"I don't care if you're late" versus "I just silently judge you". Which one is it?

Perhaps he's a German expat who has absorbed the Parisian attitude

Watch me not care

Re: Am I German or Autistic?

#124
post #55

The test doesn't follow the correct procedures for diagnosing autism and after a thorough reading of the DSM-5-TR I could find no mention of German a mental illness being and I challenge anyone to me wrong prove.

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Stakkenblokken! The correct procedure shall be enforced, no matter how detrimental to the outcomes!

Re: Am I German or Autistic?

#125

YOUR RESULT Both The Wittgenstein Result GERMAN 49% AUTISTIC 40% Been once to Germany, maybe twice. Can't vouch the other.

>Been once to Germany, maybe twice. Being German isn't communicable, you won't catch it on a business trip or holiday.

Pretty sure it is sexually transmissible, so I would not be too sure about that.

Re: Am I German or Autistic?

#127
On being interrupted, "It's difficult to describe. Something like a physical sensation."

This is extremely relatable. I'm pretty confident that this physical sensation is related to my (rather severely) limited working memory, which I have to carefully manage at maximum capacity and which is catastrophically overwhelmed by some interruptions. A token interruption ("hey, do you have a sec"?) Doesn't tend to cause the sensation, but an interruption that contains data ("I called Greg about the plan for Wednesday and he said that Susan said...") is psychologically painful and even enraging in an oddly visceral sort of way.

Re: Am I German or Autistic?

#128
post #115

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Sometimes you're born in the "wrong country". My life was essentially a mess until I moved across the continent to a country that much better follows what I personally want out of life, then suddenly a bunch of seemingly unrelated issues just solved themselves.

What country? I feel like moving never solves personal problems, surpsing to hear it did for me someone

Texas

Re: Am I German or Autistic?

#129
Question 9 imho is the most German one ("When someone says 'we should get coffee sometime,' you understand this to mean:").

It depends on context a bit obviously, but most Germans are sincere about it. You either propose coffee or you don't.

However, there's a subset of Germans who seem to propose coffee and then don't follow up themselves, but it's not just a phrase. If you are the one to follow up, they'd join you. Which, to say the least, is annoying, too.

From my German perspective, asking someone for grabbing coffee sometime and not meaning it is a completely stupid thing to say. Why would you suggest it? Why should the other person have to decode this as a "nice thing to say but not meant literally" if you could say a hundred other things that could be meant literally and are still nice, like "see you around" or something like that?

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