First, I am a late diagnosis, so if some of my terminology is offensive please tell me, assimilation is hard.

On the the point, I have been noticing a pattern, I am in a number of allistic or mixed groups, online or in meetup type spaces. I am trying to expand my social circle, and I have nearly always been alone.

Is it typical amongst nurotypical people to respond to a question with need for information questions and then, when they realize that (and I don’t know which) they’re not interested or they can’t help they just move on, not explain that they can’t help or aren’t interested?

  • Tony! Toni! Toné! ☑️@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Oh, yeah, totally. They’ll hijack a conversation and steer it to something else if they sense the rest of the group is also fading in attention.

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      i’ve seen it done to break “group tension” regardless of the legitimacy/validity/earnestness/context of the conversation