Why do neurotypicals
Nov. 27th, 2022 09:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primeidealVisiting extended family for a long weekend. The other night some of them wanted to watch a movie, and based on the summary/genre mashup I was like "this is not going to be my thing, but I'll just hang out and play on my phone if I'm not interested." Sure enough, some of it was "beautiful shots of the wildlife of the southern US," okay, lovely, I like a nature montage. A lot of it was misery porn, which I tuned out.
Then the next night, we're like:
My uncle (aloud): Hey, do you want to go see an expose about sexual assault and misogyny?
Me (internally): You know, maybe you guys have fun, but I'll give it a pass.
My aunt (aloud): Nah, I was more in the mood to be preached at about the horrors of anti-black racism and lynchings!
Me (internally): On second thought, I have always been a great fan of sexual assault.
Many compromise options proposed/vetoed. Among them a documentary about a psychiatrist (cousin: "maybe my dad would be into that but it sounds boring"); I voted for RRR because it's been compared to Les Mis ("we wouldn't have to watch all three hours!" my aunt: "yes we would, we'd get stuck and unable to quit"); and a stupid-sounding sequel to an extremely stupid Christmas movie (I vetoed that one). The compromise...a director who, from my experience, is annoying and full of himself. /o\ At that point I just kept quiet because we'd taken long enough already. Film was less terrible than I feared, so there's that.
Then the next night, we're like:
My uncle (aloud): Hey, do you want to go see an expose about sexual assault and misogyny?
Me (internally): You know, maybe you guys have fun, but I'll give it a pass.
My aunt (aloud): Nah, I was more in the mood to be preached at about the horrors of anti-black racism and lynchings!
Me (internally): On second thought, I have always been a great fan of sexual assault.
Many compromise options proposed/vetoed. Among them a documentary about a psychiatrist (cousin: "maybe my dad would be into that but it sounds boring"); I voted for RRR because it's been compared to Les Mis ("we wouldn't have to watch all three hours!" my aunt: "yes we would, we'd get stuck and unable to quit"); and a stupid-sounding sequel to an extremely stupid Christmas movie (I vetoed that one). The compromise...a director who, from my experience, is annoying and full of himself. /o\ At that point I just kept quiet because we'd taken long enough already. Film was less terrible than I feared, so there's that.
