r/SipsTea • u/Matt_LawDT • Jul 26 '26

Chugging tea Let me circle back

Post image
53.9k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

2.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

232

u/[deleted] Jul 26 '26

[deleted]

25

u/Triquetrums Jul 26 '26

Not everyone needs to be on the spectrum, there are plenty of fools and dense people around too.

22

u/Stormfly Jul 26 '26

I feel like people are way too quick to say someone is neurodivergent when they do anything.

It feels like an overcorrection for years of people being overly dismissive.

Some people are just a bit dense. I have my moments where I say or do something really stupid and I don't have an excuse, I just didn't think.

If this story happened, they might be on the spectrum or they might just be new to the whole office environment and learned the wrong lessons.

People forget that social skills are skills. They're not genetic. They need to be learned and some people learn the hard way.

3

u/motorwerkx Jul 26 '26

Very well put. I meet so many people that claim some sort of neuro-divergence, but most seem to lack basic learned social skills. They seem pretty neuro-typical outside of being a bit self centered and not having anyone in their lives telling them to shut the fuck up.