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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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[–] Skkorm@lemmy.world 41 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

What a virgin. They were clearly flirting, mind your own business.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 25 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Dollars to doughnuts Anon was autistic in the literal sense and didn't understand.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 11 points 16 hours ago

Nothing some bullying won't fix

[–] Skkorm@lemmy.world 15 points 19 hours ago

I'M autistic in the literal sense. It's pretty common for us ASD folks to read social scenarios incorrectly. "I just stayed away from girls after that" is an extreme reaction.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 27 points 23 hours ago

middle school

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 155 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Anon still hasn't figured out they were trying to flirt with one another and he had butted his away into the middle of that?

[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Identifying flirting when you're autistic is hard. I did an extra-cirricular in highschool that involved regular travel for tournaments. One time while on one of those trips a girl on the team knocked on my hotel room door and asked if she could sleep in my room because her roommate was being loud, so I let her in and she slept with me in my bed. I mean slept in a very literal sense; I took her at face value and thought she was just trying to get better sleep for the tournament the next day. I did not understand that she was flirting with me until years later when the roommate who was "being loud" that night tore into me for rejecting her and destroying her self esteem. The kicker is that I was into her, I just had no idea she liked me. It seems very plausible to me that anon is/was that bad at identifying flirting

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 hours ago

Identifying flirting when you're autistic is hard.

Honestly, identifying flirting in general is hard. One time I spent half an evening cooking with a friend while she wasn't wearing a shirt, just a bra. I thought that was a pretty strong hint that she was into me, but she seriously wasn't

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 57 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I feel bad for Anon getting shouted down for trying to be helpful, but sometimes you've got to stay out of the way

[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Autist gonna autist

[–] grue@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

I mean... it's 4chan, what did you expect?

Honestly, by clearly explaining the problem you probably do those anons a genuine service.

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago

Anon forgot straight people exist

[–] akkajdh999@programming.dev 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

but my friend agreed with her

??? did you try changing friends?

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 points 16 hours ago

Friends, plurar?

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 119 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Anon should only speak when spoken to smdh

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 78 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Middle school is, was, and will be full of dicks. How 1/2 of all middle schoolers turn into decent people, I don’t know.

[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago

The parts of the brain responsible for social behavior don't fully develop until adulthood, and the brain gets rewired substantially during puberty, around middle school age. So, a middle schooler is seriously handicapped when it comes to social behavior.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Lmfao you think 1/2 of everyone is decent? How optimistic of you

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Pareto principle works here too. It's like 20% are decent, 60% sit on the fence depending on context, and 20% are always awful.

These ratios are more strictly 20/80 the older the sample sets, ie roughly 80% of people over 65 are toxic, in most cases, even when their behavior hurts themselves.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

I'm inclined to agree with you

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Half feels right. The moral median is forever moving up. I can trust most people in a room to avoid murdering, robbing, raping, or engaging in political conversation with me, so that’s my rationale.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 8 points 1 day ago

Do not conflate fear of punishment with morality. Most people suck, but are at least capable of a very basic level of cost-benefit analysis.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's a big ask of people nowadays, are you sure you didn't set the bar too high. /S

[–] Speiser0@feddit.org 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

1/2 of them have no dicks.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

How does one feel bad about this?

I learned very quickly to determine such people as worthless and to not let it bother me.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 29 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Awkward teens trying to flirt with each other, who get mad when their oblivious friend tries to get in between, are worthless?

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

Perspective.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 4 points 23 hours ago

Me too. Only took 20 years past high school

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 23 hours ago

Like that, sadly.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Thanks, now I'm less sad about the fact I barely interacted with other people in middle school

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

I got so many memories like this that they take turns fucking my brain 24/7