Vegetable Examination

[FayetheAspie]

Does anyone else relate to having difficulty not examining the vegetables on your plate? Green beans, corn, ect. I have had a tendency to peel a few beans, peas, corn kernels, ect. apart examining the different layers, comparing the flavors and textures of the different layers popping out the cotelydon (seed leaf/leaves ) to examine and try eating separately, ect. for as long as I can remember.

 

[FayetheAspie]

I also like to explain things about the plants' anatomy when I can actually get someone to listen. I don't try as often as I used to but if someone asks what I am doing, then I am eager to start explaining.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

I also like to explain things about the plants' anatomy when I can actually get someone to listen. I don't try as often as I used to but if someone asks what I am doing, then I am eager to start explaining.

After my own heart. I don’t actually do it anymore. I realized no one was interested.

 

[FayetheAspie]

After my own heart. I don’t actually do it anymore. I realized no one was interested.

Sadly
Neurotypical people have a tendency to miss out on so many interesting things.

 

[TBRS1]

Just think of all the cool, deeply analyzed, logiced-out thought those silly people miss out on!

 

[Tired]

Reading these types of comments, I immediately start feeling like I'm some stupid, boring, uninterested in anything shallow person. I am not, but I feel sometimes, reading comments, that that's how some ND people see NT people. My poor self-confidence isn't happy about it!

 

[FayetheAspie]

We are not really intending for anyone to feel bad. I think we just get excited to be able to interact with others who do find these things interesting after coming to be used to most others thinking that we're total freaks and letting us know so because of finding things like this interesting . I am sorry if I hurt your feelings. That was not my intent. Sometimes I sort of forget that not everyone on the forum is autistic.

 

[Judge]

Is that why I tend to separate a peanut and eat the heart, then both halves?

I sort of likened this to stimming, I suppose. Hmmmm.

 

[Tired]

We are not really intending for anyone to feel bad. I think we just get excited to be able to interact with others who do find these things interesting after coming to be used to most others thinking that we're total freaks and letting us know so because of finding things like this interesting . I am sorry if I hurt your feelings. That was not my intent. Sometimes I sort of forget that not everyone on the forum is autistic.

It's okay, it was half-joke from my side as well. I know how extremely unfair the world is towards ND people, I hope it'll change with time.

 

[FayetheAspie]

Is that why I tend to separate a peanut and eat the heart, then both halves?

I sort of likened this to stimming, I suppose. Hmmmm.

Maybe. For me though I always saw it more as curiosity related for the most part but I suppose stimming could account for continuing to do it with things that I have already examined multiple times previously.

 

[TBRS1]

It's okay, it was half-joke from my side as well. I know how extremely unfair the world is towards ND people, I hope it'll change with time.

It actually IS funny.

People who have a major trait in common tend to have some similar experiences.

Autistic people frequently find themselves talking about something they find absolutely fascinating to people who do that side eye thing that means "How do I escape this conversation?"

We end up being accused of "mansplaning" if male, or "being flakey" if female, or being overly intellectual (= boring), or being conversation hogs, or any of a hundred misreadings of our intentions.

And you know what? That's what it looks like from the outside...

... but from the inside, we feel like we are happily and freely sharing our interest in some utterly fascinating subject.

It's the mismatch between how an autistic person presents themselves and how an allistic person expects a person to present that is funny. It will always be a mismatch, and social mismatching is one of the major comedy strains.

It will always be either painfully hurtful, or funny. Funny is better because it's fun.

 

[Outdated]

....examining the different layers,

When I was a kid an old librarian showed me how she repaired torn pages using a raw onion. There's a thin membrane in between the different layers of the onion and she'd cut pieces of that to size and put them over the tear on both sides, and smooth it out with a tiny little damp sponge. It made almost invisible repairs.

 

[FayetheAspie]

When I was a kid an old librarian showed me how she repaired torn pages using a raw onion. There's a thin membrane in between the different layers of the onion and she'd cut pieces of that to size and put them over the tear on both sides, and smooth it out with a tiny little damp sponge. It made almost invisible repairs.

Wow! Interesting.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

Reading these types of comments, I immediately start feeling like I'm some stupid, boring, uninterested in anything shallow person. I am not, but I feel sometimes, reading comments, that that's how some ND people see NT people. My poor self-confidence isn't happy about it!

Let me boost your self-confidence. Let’s have tea and I’ll explain seed structure including variations and if you are really good we can get into ultrastructure too.

 

[Tired]

Let me boost your self-confidence. Let’s have tea and I’ll explain seed structure including variations and if you are really good we can get into ultrastructure too.

I would like that, I can then tell you back about veganism and why it's important to take care of planet and not eat animals for pleasure

 

[Outdated]

Let me boost your self-confidence. Let’s have tea and I’ll explain seed structure including variations and if you are really good we can get into ultrastructure too.

One of my last girlfriends was a microbiologist specialising in polymorphism of plants at the cellular level.

 

[FayetheAspie]

Let me boost your self-confidence. Let’s have tea and I’ll explain seed structure including variations and if you are really good we can get into ultrastructure too.

Don't forget to discuss all the phytochemicals in your tea cups.

Spoiler

referring to the naturally occurring plant based chemicals (phytochemicals) that belong in the tea

 

[Tired]

referring to the naturally occurring plant based chemicals (phytochemicals) that belong in the tea

i remember i was incredibly surprised, when i found out, that some teas make reactions like soap does

 

[FayetheAspie]

What are phytochemicals? (And why should you eat more of them?)

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

I would like that, I can then tell you back about veganism and why it's important to take care of planet and not eat animals for pleasure

We shall have a rocking good tea time. I shall follow with the evidence that plants are sentient, communicate with each other, and feel pain. To be followed by accusations that vegans crunch baby bean sprouts alive between their teeth. Any raw vegetable is alive when eaten. I’ll stop now.

[Absolutely no offense intended.]