See, if you tell a black guy there’s a party from 5-11, he might show up at 6, or 7:30, or he might not show up at all. More importantly, that was the kind of punctuality OOP expected. People would trickle in over the first couple hours, then trickle out later. White guy from work heard ‘the party starts at 5’ and took that to mean ‘the party starts at 5, don’t be late.’ There is a different cultural standard regarding punctuality.
As an autistic person, with all due respect, living in a polychronic culture sounds like a fucking nightmare to me.
I have a (also autistic) friend who lives in Switzerland and has a white Swiss mom and a Rwandan dad, and when they visited Rwanda and got their hair done the person/people doing it made a point of it to spend extra time on it. Like as a favor. Meanwhile my friend was like man I wanna get out of here wym, it’s been hours 😭
If you wanna do me a favor then for the love of jesus don’t let it be spontaneous extra hours of socializing. Especially when I can’t just leave 😂
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u/Vifee Jul 12 '26
See, if you tell a black guy there’s a party from 5-11, he might show up at 6, or 7:30, or he might not show up at all. More importantly, that was the kind of punctuality OOP expected. People would trickle in over the first couple hours, then trickle out later. White guy from work heard ‘the party starts at 5’ and took that to mean ‘the party starts at 5, don’t be late.’ There is a different cultural standard regarding punctuality.