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Tried masking. What did I do wrong?
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this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2026
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Being in my mid-forties I have concluded that it is far more rewarding to find fellow non-NTs to spend time with, because they understand the pain that is NTs and their usually unreflected reliance on their gut-feeling (which happens to tell them that we are "other"). In school I hung out at a Star Trek Fan meetup, later it became the Chaos Computer Club and Mensa; All of these were full of delightfully inclusive fellow freaks. Find your people instead of trying to please those who merely happen to be around.
Pretty hard at school.
Drama club is where I found most. Until we started a Magic The Gathering club. That REALLY got them out of the woodwork.
Brazil (my country) doesn't really have club activities at schools :(
Yeah, I cannot sugar-coat it: It was shit, and it will be similar at the workplace (albeit with more mature NTs, which does help), but it get's easier when you have "your" people to socialize with outside of these society-enforced group interactions.