False impressions

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How a person is online , in a highly verbal environment , may not be a good guide to how they do offline .

Yep. Very true

Like a person’s photograph doesn’t tell much about a person.

^ It's so true about a person's photo. I'm far from photogenic . I think the online vs offline situation I mentioned previously can also be applied to short conversations with a person offline vs a more prolonged interaction with them .
A short, verbal interaction doesn't capture the adaptive functioning deficits/difficulties that some of us have .

My photos are hideous. I'd rather people think of me as "that lizard guy" than see what I really look like.

My problem is smiling. Doing a teeth showing smile is out of the question as a lot of my teeth are missing , and I look like a 17th century male version of a toothless old crone when I do.

Then there is the question of looking 'natural' as my photo is taken , and not like someone who's deputy to the village idiot .

I can be exactly like that. No. I am exactly like that.

My writing can make me appear to be very literate and intelligent. Well thought out and reasoned arguments and comments and opinions and ideas etc., but I find that much more difficult verbally.

If I wanted to give someone "a piece of my mind" then in writing I could tear them to shreads - face to face however........

There is one correct impression

Everything else is "false"

Sometimes it's necessary, natural or involuntary to make assumptions

Sometimes it doesn't matter if the assumption is wrong

Sometimes a wrong assumption is to your benefit

Sometimes a wrong assumption "hurts" you, but it is not worth the energy it takes to rectify