Weird! Neurotypical man dislikes having his personality traits referred to as symptoms
Added 2024-05-17 10:00:04 +0000 UTC
Piece by Sara Gibbs, Image © Shutterstock
A neurotypical man objects to his core personality traits, both positive and negative, being described as symptoms, it has been rumoured.
Paul Shinter, 35, suffers from extreme neurotypicalism. His symptoms include drinking protein shakes on purpose, an avid interest in football and compulsively referring to other men as “geezer”.
Shinter’s cousin, Liz McHodge, 42, who is autistic, said: “Paul will just glare his eyeballs right into yours without any regard for the pain it causes. He seriously lacks self-awareness, yet another of his symptoms.”
“He insists on having the radio on full volume in the kitchen, the TV going in the living room and then tries to make inane small talk with you about the relative price of petrol at local stations,” she added. “It’s like he can’t help himself.”
“Paul gets very upset when you talk about his symptoms,” she continued. “Despite the fact that he derides my honesty, calls my PhD in Russian literature a ‘special interest’, and refers to my ‘fixation on social justice’ like it’s gonorrhoea.”
Shinter responded: “Goaaaaaaaaal! Get in there, geezer!”
