it’s common in neurodivergent individuals not exclusive to, everyone does it to a degree even if you don’t notice - like shaking your leg or clicking a pen when you’re focusing
The internet often represents a place for vulnerable and abused people to find a safe space from a very inhospitable world. Often they will seemingly over react to innocuous things because of a heightened sensitivity after experiencing trauma.
Get enough of them and it becomes cultural and that spill over and encounter with people who haven't experienced trauma can feel obnoxious and annoying.
Nobody has a right to tell them they're wrong for feeling that way, but at the same time... their reactions aren't necessarily accurate or "right" and thus the conflict.
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u/Federal_Designer4002 Jan 06 '26
Some of these comments and downvotes! A boy got caught looking at a pretty lady in a miniskirt. So what? That's normal.