Is this situation plausible?

Autism/Chad horseshoe theory

he's GAY.

HE'S LITERALLY GAY

I don't tknow the coworker, but OP is obviously GAY.

OP is the coworker following the guy around. And they thought we wouldn’t notice smh my head

Totally in love and heartbroken. Bmh my heart too.

I work with a guy like this. Lead his icebreaker with "I don't understand people so don't expect me to interact with you."

He's the most brilliant person I've ever worked with. His knowledge is encyclopedic. He will show you how what you're asking is idiotic in as few words as is necessary. He has no fear of manager or customer.

He has my eternal allegiance.

He has no fear of manager or customer.

Oh to be such a brave man

It helps if your field of fucks is barren and you've none left to give. I really love it. My boss told me if I wanna go up in the hierarchy I'll need some diplomacy training to speak to higher ups and I'm like "do you really think I say those things by accident?!" :,D

I would follow that man into hell.

We stan

looking at the lyrics of that song, i would not exactly stan

There's a song about the word stan?

Yes, there is, it's actually the trope namer!

I've been in this literal exact situation. If it hadn't happened 20 years ago I'd be worried this anon is talking about me

Same, I'm such a dumb fuck! Nothing Gigachad about that.

As an autistic woman who's usually attracted to others on the spectrum, I am worried anon is talking about me

Sometimes i tell my girlfriend stories about weird people in my life and she's like: yeah, she was into your autistic ass. Nonono, she was doing this and that... Oh honey.

They are both autistic.

I love how autism has become this fetishized thing that you slap onto all people operating outside of expected parameters.

Everything is an autistic trait when you go looking for autistic traits.

That’s exactly what I’d expect an autistic person to say.

I don't think that's what fetishized means.

It is. It refers to things being held in special regard in social arrangements, to an religious extent. The autism discourse, with all the memes and such, does more often than not include a cult-like adherence to beliefs around certain behaviours that anyone could display, shifting focus away from the developmental aspects of autism which are very much real and to diagnostic markers that are less than well defined but are used in clinical settings like: trouble at work/school/kindergarten [Y/N], and certain things the hiveminds of the world latch onto. There I think of people regarding dislike of the "big" light as being an indicator for autism(???).

to an religious extent

yeah, I don't think that applies here

There are also civil religions, so it still applies. Think about the way we fetishize democracy, long covid or mold exposure. Really interesting topic.

Autistim is the new 'touched by god'.

There I think of people regarding dislike of the "big" light as being an indicator for autism(???).

Makes one wonder if vampires are autistic.

That's a very informal, essentially slang usage of the word. It's so informal that it's pointless to argue about whether it's even correct. At any rate better word could certainly have been chosen.

Huh?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fetishism

Entry 1. and 3., I don't think you know what you are talking about.

literally what it means. People treat words like divine tangible streams of meaning when they're just sounds we make

literally what it means

Literally not

People treat words like divine tangible streams of meaning when they’re just sounds we make

Completely unrelated, seems like you have a bug up your butt about something else. Also I'm pretty sure nobody thinks that either, sorry a prescriptivist upset you but that has no relation to what I said.

I am not upset, it's just a collection of graphemes on the screen. Sorry you feel different

Either you're using "literally" in a non-literal fashion, or you're using it to make your statement even more incorrect.

Maybe, making it as incorrect as possible serves to prove a point which makes statement phrased correctly for the goal in mind?

it's both a literal utterance in the sense of pointing to the denotative meaning of another term (fetishism in this instance) and an inscription, therefore literal in the sense of being a work of literature.

I also could argue that I used that word colloquially as to add emphasis on the confidence I have in my statement, which is also a correct use of the word.

If you care be sure to leave another definiens of 'literal' that would render my post incorrect in your regard. Frankly I would love to learn more about your point of view on the matter

Ding ding ding, we have a winner!

Wouldn't quite call this "gigachad" behavior, but it's good and healthy to not jump on literally anyone who offers, even if you aren't particularly interested. I suspect anon sees this as "gigachad" because they're steeped in manosphere/incel ideology (unsurprising for a 4chan user).

Definitely autistic, possibly including the woman.

Yeah I don't associate being rude to someone that is awkwardly expressing an interest in you, cool, or alpha, or whatever the fuck gigachad is, it's just a dick move, that will make that person expressing interest lose confidence to ask out the next person, which is a problem in today's society more than ever with online dating kind of poisoning the well.

There is a nice way to say no, and autism is no excuse for not being nice there.

We don't know whether the guy already tried saying 'no' in a nice way, though. Sometimes people just don't get the hint, especially if one or both people in the interaction are neurodiverse.

I suppose that's true, but I know many people think their hints are obvious, when they aren't to a great many of us, at least in the moment after the fact we might realize someone hinted at us. People are dense at times, not just autists either. So maybe they thought they had been clear in their rejection of their attention but it wasn't picked up on?

I mean I have been hit on by people I've no interest in, and I've never been so rude. I've also asked people out and had them rudely say no when a more polite way would have been appreciated, and they might have thought hints were clear, but they weren't to me at all. And I'm not alone in being slow to take the hints, men in general are slow to get such hints by woman they are rather known for it as I understand it.

If she asked if she was annoying, she knew on some level.

When I was younger, I used to get so annoyed at hinting disinterest rather than outright stating it, but I eventually realized that if someone is interested and doesn't have barriers to getting involved, they won't be coy about it. If they are busy but otherwise interested in a date when asked, they'll usually say more than "I have plans that day", like "but I'm free on x day" or "maybe another time?" or "I'd love to go on a date with you but can't that specific time".

If they are evasive at all about it, they are either not interested in general and are just trying to be polite (NOT really for your sake, so don't start about how you'd rather they be clear, it's to protect themselves from the pieces of shit that get aggressive when they realize they don't have a chance), or they have other shit going on that complicates any interest (like it's hard for them to schedule a date ahead of time because they are already in a relationship and need a good excuse to get away for a date).

Everyone in this green text is autistic.

Everyone in ~~this~~ green text is autistic

Everyone ~~in this green text~~ is autistic

On this blessed day.

Speak for yourself.

On my blessed day.

Everyone on lemmy is autistic.

That's what makes it great

If this is true, then you're almost certainly right.

~~this~~ every

First line reminds me of office space

Fake: woman interested in man

Gay: anon is jealous

Ungay: anon is a woman too.

Completlely flips the script, doesn't it?

No, it's just gay with extra steps

You must show your working

It's gymnastics more than math.

Regay: anon is jealous of the guy, because she has a crush on the women following him.

Gigachads don’t shout, do they?

Or they only shout. No in between

As opposed to inaudibly shouting

An autistic gigachad, obviously.

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