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3D in a 2D world
Dec. 18th, 2022 07:09 pmOn FB, my friend Kitty was saying it's weird how people think she's obsessed with things she's actually only passingly interested in, how she can't post anything about anything without people thinking she's obsessed with it. The whole convo is very relatable to neurospicy folks. Here was my response etc:
Me: Probably the level of detail you bring to many things you talk about. Most people don't bring that much detail into things they're only passingly interested in.
Kitty: ... do... people just not see this many details in day to day interactions?
Me: Most people barely see the surface of the tip of the iceberg. You see the mammoth frozen in the ice, a barely visible brown blur.
Kitty: ... and my response is always, "it is a fscking mammoth, mastadon or whooly elephant of some kind... how do you NOT see it?"...
Me: Indeed. And then it like turns out to be that weird one with the massive trough shovel for a mouth, whatever it's called. And you're like "That's not an arctic species, how did it get frozen in ice?"
Kitty: that is an entirely valid question, though! It should be the normal response to this!
Me: Exactly! NTs are weird myopic creatures. Being neurospicy is like being 3D in a world full of 2D beings. How do you not see depth? How are you only seeing height and width?
Me: Probably the level of detail you bring to many things you talk about. Most people don't bring that much detail into things they're only passingly interested in.
Kitty: ... do... people just not see this many details in day to day interactions?
Me: Most people barely see the surface of the tip of the iceberg. You see the mammoth frozen in the ice, a barely visible brown blur.
Kitty: ... and my response is always, "it is a fscking mammoth, mastadon or whooly elephant of some kind... how do you NOT see it?"...
Me: Indeed. And then it like turns out to be that weird one with the massive trough shovel for a mouth, whatever it's called. And you're like "That's not an arctic species, how did it get frozen in ice?"
Kitty: that is an entirely valid question, though! It should be the normal response to this!
Me: Exactly! NTs are weird myopic creatures. Being neurospicy is like being 3D in a world full of 2D beings. How do you not see depth? How are you only seeing height and width?