“New Yorkers make being from New York their entire personality”
Yes. Because it is a personality. It’s a nationality. It’s a culture. And if you don’t get it, you were never meant to get it, because you’re NOT A NEW YORKER. goodnight.
Imagine my shock as a neurodivergent teen when I first realized that using large vocabulary and eloquent speech doesn't make you less likely to be misinterpreted, rather it adds an entirely new layer of misinterpretation I had never even realized existed in the form of people thinking you're being snobbish or condescending when you're just trying to be specific
Any other neurodivergent people find that you underreact to things you're expected to have a Big Response to (death, break ups, terrible news) and overreact to things you're expected to not get upset about??
turns out, reading voraciously, moving your body, loving people without keeping score, protecting your solitude, chasing nothing but your own growth, and occasionally staying out too late with people who make you laugh until it hurts is not a bad way to build a life.