You can learn these missing bits over time. Neurotypical people don't think or speak literally most of the time the way you would want.
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I guess you like us better when we're masking, then, and would like us to be taught to act more normal? That's coercive control. "Be like me!" We're not wrong, just different.
aug 28, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
have to adapt or remember what the wrong thing to say, or the wrong way to say it, is a problem.
aug 28, 2025, 3:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Who says it's wrong? Why are you making the rules?
aug 28, 2025, 3:15 pm • 0 0 • view
It's wrong when it hurts someone. There's no other way to say it. Intent matters, of course, but it doesn't make it expressly ok.
aug 28, 2025, 7:19 pm • 0 0 • view
It has nothing to do with "liking you better" or "masking". Everyone must at least try to learn how to communicate the same way. If you can't, that's one thing, but refusing just because you don't like it or don't think you should have to is a problem. No, you're not wrong, but expecting to not
aug 28, 2025, 3:03 pm • 0 0 • view
"everyone should be like me"? Why? That's like "everyone should be right handed" Or "everyone should be straight". You must be on a wind up now.
aug 28, 2025, 3:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Communicating the same way for convenience and ease is not "Everyone should be like me."
aug 28, 2025, 7:18 pm • 0 0 • view