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What do NTs talk about in conversation? (lemmy.zip)
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[–] Australis13@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

My impression has always been that NT vs ND conversation differs in a few specific ways:

  1. Small talk (or lack thereof).
  2. Experience-specific topics (eg. autistic individuals might share a conversation on specific aspects of their experience being on the spectrum, whilst NTs probably have the same conversation but from an NT perspective).
  3. Amount of detail/time spent on a topic. Excluding the NT/ND experience topics in (2), I don't think they actually differ all that much in the range of subjects they cover. It is just that they might cover five topics in an hour-long conversation in moderate detail whilst those of us on the spectrum might spend the entire hour discussing a few specific points of one topic. I think this is best explained by the monotropic vs polytropic model.