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  • exasperation@lemm.eetoMemes@sopuli.xyzDiamond market
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    2 days ago

    Anyone can be interested in anything.

    Yeah, but I’m responding to a comment that says that neurotypical people aren’t curious or passionate about the things they’re interested in, and I think that’s too narrow of a way to define “interest.”

    I’d reject that way of thinking because that principle could be weaponized to accuse some neurodivergent people of not caring about people by misreading why they might not be great with social cues or things like that.


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    I think for most people it’s just a matter of tradeoffs. You don’t have to be interested in the act of doing something in order to be interested in the consequence of doing that thing.

    Someone who doesn’t like driving may still drive, and concentrate on driving the entire time, to get to a destination where they want to end up. For someone who doesn’t like to cook but wants to eat hot food, cooking is a means to that end.

    Now, if you’re saying that you don’t think that tradeoff is worth it to you, maybe that’s true of them if they stop to think about it, too. But I’m not sure that’s what’s going on for most people who continue to work jobs they don’t like.


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    2 days ago

    Neurotypicals tend to lack curiosity and passion for interests.

    When the interest at issue is human relationships and social norms, I think it flips the other way around.

    Better to characterize things by what type of interests tend to appeal to which.