Autistic Infodumping at the Party

SO INFODUMPING IS A TERM I USED TO DESCRIBE THE NATURAL WAY THAT AUTISTS, YOU KNOW, AUTISTIC PEOPLE, COMMUNICATE. WE DON'T GO BACK AND FORTH RAPIDLY LIKE ALLISTICS, AS IN NON-AUTISTIC PEOPLE. WE SHARE INFORMATION IN RELATIVELY UN-INTERRUPTED STREAMS. IT IS WIDELY ACCEPTED AS A PRIMARY AUTISTIC LOVE LANGUAGE. IF AN AUTIST FEELS COMFORTABLE INFODUMPING AROUND YOU, LIKE I AM RIGHT NOW, WITHOUT CONSTANTLY APOLOGIZING FOR YOU, YOU SHOULD TAKE THAT AS A COMPLIMENT. I MEAN I AM NOT MASKING AROUND YOU, BUT I WILL TALK ABOUT MASKING LATER. STUDIES SHOW THAT AUTISTS RESPOND TO INFODUMPING THE WAY THAT ALLISTICS RESPOND TO SMALL TALK. AND, WELL, SO I THINK THAT'S YOUR WAY OF MAKING SMALL SENSE OF HOW HARD IT IS BEING AN AUTIST LISTENING TO SMALL TALK ALL THE TIME. NOW YOU HAVE REALLY BEEN FOCUSING ON WHAT I HAVE TO SAY AND SOME PEOPLE MIGHT THINK THAT YOUR FLAT AFFECT MIGHT SEEM LIKE YOU ARE NOT INTERESTED IN WHAT I HAVE TO SAY, BUT AUTISTIC PEOPLE CAN PICK UP ON OTHER PEOPLE ARE AUTISTIC OR NOT AND ALLISTIC MIGHT SEE US AND THINK, OH WAIT, THAT GIRL IS REALLY TALKING HIS EAR OFF AND HE TOTALLY DOESN'T WANT TO BE THERE AT ALL. ITS LIKE A GENDER-SWAP OF THAT OTHER MEME. BUT BASED ON ALL KIND OF FACTORS, I AM PICKING UP FROM YOU AND HOW WELL YOU ARE TAKING IN ALL THIS STUFF AM PICKING UP ON THE FACT THAT YOU'RE A COMMUNICATING AND THAT YOU'RE FLAT AFFECT AND NOT LOOKING ME IN THE EYES IS ACTUALLY A SIGN THAT YOU ARE REALLY ENGAGING WITH ME IN A DEEP AND PROFOUND WAY AND THAT IS ALL PART OF DAMIAN MILTON'S DOUBLE EMPATHY PROBLEM THEORY WHICH POSTULATES THAT AUTISTIC PEOPLE UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER BETTER THROUGH A SHARED EMPATHY AND PEOPLE WHO ARE DIFFERENT HAVE A DIFFERENT EMPATHY MAKING IT HARDER TO EMPATHIZE WITH EACH OTHER, WHICH IS THE WHOLE THING ABOUT INFODUMPING, AND THAT IS THE PROOF OF THIS THEORY, PEOPLE THINK THAT AUTISTIC PEOPLE ARE SOCIALLY DEFICIENT BUT NO, THAT ALL WE JUST COMMUNICATE WITH A DIFFERENT STYLE AND THIS IS PROVEN BY ALL KINDS OF STUDIES AND THE EXISTENCE OF AUTISTIC TWITTER. IF AUTISTS WHERE SOCIALLY DEFICIENT, THEY COULD NOT FORM SOCIAL NETWORKS WITH EACH OTHER. SEE HOW THIS IS ALL COMING TOGETHER IN ONE BIG SYSTEM; THE INFODUMPING, THE EMPATHY, ABILITY TO SENSE EACH OTHER, HOW ALL THIS ARE PREDISPOSED TO SEXUAL LANGUAGE RIGHT NOW IS DISMISSIVE, ITS ALL JUST A DIFFERENT WAY OF DOING THINGS.... WHERE WAS... THERE WAS SOMETHING... OH YEAH SO MASKING. YOU SEE MASKING IS WHEN AN AUTISTIC PERSON ACTS ALLISTIC OH AH! JUST THOUGHT OF WHEN ROMAN SWANSON ASKED FOR ALL THE EGGS AND BACON, TO CLARIFY, I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT COVID MASK THIS IS A METAPHORICAL MASK. I CAN ACTUALLY CASE A LOT OF CORE INFORMATION BUT THIS IS AUTISTIC MASKING. THE MASK IS A REFERENCE TO HIDING YOUR AUTISTIC NATURE. ITS PARTIALLY CONSCIOUS AND PARTIALLY UN-

A young man and woman stand in a crowded party or public gathering while the woman leans toward him and points, appearing to talk intensely. The enormous caption is an intentionally excessive autistic infodump about communication, masking, the double empathy problem, and related references. The joke is that the uninterrupted wall of text itself demonstrates the infodumping being described, making it useful as an absurd reaction to someone talking at length. EN: A young man and woman stand in a crowded party or public gathering while the woman leans toward him and points, appearing to talk intensely. The enormous caption is an intentionally excessive autistic infodump about communication, masking, the double empathy problem, and related references. The joke is that the uninterrupted wall of text itself demonstrates the infodumping being described, making it useful as an absurd reaction to someone talking at length.

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