To think the hilarity just wasn’t necessary?

You weren't at a museum though you were just having a conversation. I would expect this from Frasier Crane

Because why should she not share it? What if dd also has thoughts and wants moments like this? Op is normalising it. Totally fine. There was no judgement attached to the comment from op or her dd.

This reminds me about the lady in the Sistine Chapel, and if my sister did the same as you, I'd laugh too as it sounds like such an odd thing to do that it would be funny (sorry OP).

No wonder we have such a problem with bullying in schools if this how grown adults are to someone who’s doing NOTHING wrong, just a bit different to what the would do.
the comments on this post and the experience of people laughing at you when you’re clearly not in on the joke is just deeply unpleasant and unnecessary.
you can think ‘oh that’s a bit odd’ without laughing and acting like twat. It’s more odd to be so cruel about someone imo.

this post is grim. I’m sorry @AllProperTeaIsTheft try not to be too upset by these awful people. ❤️

Totally agree. Laughing at somebody for thinking? Who does that? That's oddly immature behavior for any adult. Being thoughtful, otoh, is not odd.

But why should she? Is she hurting anyone by what she did? No. It’s really mean to laugh at someone when they’re obviously not amused.

They absolutely were laughing at her, at the very least once it was clear she didn’t find it funny then the adult thing to do is stop laughing, apologise and move on. Making something a family joke when the butt of the joke isn’t amused is not a family joke, it’s family bullying and it’s deeply unpleasant.

You have got to be kidding me. You think it's abnormal for a grown adult to want to reflect on the subject of a conversation?
This is not weird. This is what intelligent people do.

Doesn't anyone here relate to the OP's decision to leave the room once the conversation turned to Donald Trump?

Nope. The problem is that many people are shallow and don't reflect on issues enough, so they assume other, more thoughtful people are strange to do so.
I'd go off by myself for a minute if I had loud, giggly people in my house too. You can't think too deeply with that going on.

Is she hurting anyone? Yes, she is. She kept steering the conversation back to her special interest when her sister was trying to change the topic because she was bored, then when it was finally her sister's turn to talk about something else she up and left because she only wanted to talk about topics of interest to her. It shows a lack of caring about her sister's experience as being of equal importance to hers, a lack of turn taking and reciprocity.

I don't think it was deliberate at all, I would suspect undiagnosed autism, but yes it was selfish and most likely hurtful to others. The laughter is a way of expressing that non-confrontationally.

You're able to reflect on a subject in depth in the middle of a noisy gathering? Sorry, but I'm calling bullshit.

You’ve completely made that story up with extra emotive words you’ve decided happened. Nowhere did she say she ‘kept steering it back’ or your use of ‘her sister was bored’ -you don’t know that she was bored or that it was even her sister who brought up trump actually. When the topic turned to Trump, she excused herself politely to have some time to think alone. That’s not hurting anyone.

Maybe OP is autistic, maybe she isn’t. That’s still not a reason to keep poking fun at her and be mean. It’s not ‘non-confrontational to laugh at someone. If neurotypicals want to talk about odd, not saying what you mean is odd. If they were pissed off because she went outside, say so. Use your words like an adult.

I relate to it bigly.

i relate to it biglier than you. I’m the biggest relator of relating in the world. The best too.

Spot on.

While all the donkeys bray.

Well OP, I don’t think you’re weird. I think you sound intelligent and thoughtful. Unfortunately most people are pretty thick and don’t understand the pursuit of considered reflection.

Just shrug it off. I’m sure they didn’t mean to be unkind. They don’t understand you.

I think your "reflecting time" was really weird, but I wouldn't have laughed at you, that's just mean.
But couldn't you have reflected when you got home?

They sound like a bunch of ignorant twats.

Like some members of my family would mock my vocabulary- Ooh, that's a long word. Have you swallowed a dictionary?

Why should she wait until she gets home? She took a short break to have a think. Wtf is wrong with that?

OP, notice that the people who say it's weird and laughable are unable to rationally explain why. The best they can come up with is; "I wouldn't do that, therefore it's weird."
That's because, unlike you, they aren't thinkers by nature. They're reactors. They just have a knee jerk emotional response to anyone who isn't as shallow as them. They don't think it through. You like to think things through in order to form an opinion. That's to be commended. Ignore these superficial, reactive people.

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Well, all I can say is thank goodness for ‘unusual reactions’. It means there are still interesting, thoughtful people in the world.

Or the OP could just be an interesting, intelligent, thoughtful person, who doesn’t need diagnosing?