• jaschen@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    My wife best friend is married to a “functioning” savant. I would say he less Rainman but more asshole.

    Dude can’t catch a hint to save his life. Social cues are totally out the window. Dude just doesn’t know the right thing to say at any situations.

    I have years being upset with him and even having verbal battles with him.

    I realized that I was in the wrong. He simply lacks the ability to comprehend why he can or can’t say. Why am I wasting my time getting mad at him.

    So I guess in this scenario, his brain has too many wrinkles that it’s sorta smooth again.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    Unironically this is how stupid people actually work.

    I can insult, say, a MAGA freak all I want, all my insults are too nuanced for them to truly understand. Half the things I think of as insults they think of as points of pride.

    In a way, it must be a pleasure to be like that and have insults slide off you because you’re simply too simple to understand them at all.

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    2 days ago

    I’d say it takes more wisdom to not let people get to you, literal and emotional.