the autistic experience of having a special interest that leads you to learn something most people already know (because they spent their time doing things that weren't your special interests), and attempting to excitedly infodump about it and they treat it like a basic fact everyone knows instead of something exciting and interesting and undermine your enthusiasm
look at the sky.
taste me, as the food and drink Alice found almost said. she was cast unto a stormshorn sunderedsea. you too will fall beneath my waves in time.
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in reply to @lookatthesky's post:
i try to join in on the enthusiasm when this happens, when i have the energy. though i dont always succeed. its a fun way to defamiliarize and re-experience the thing as new vicariously
Usually when we're in that situation we just say "well it's new to us and we want to infodump about it, is that cool?"
We find most people who don't suck are willing to adjust.