nick007 wrote:
One thing to keep in mind is that this is an autism site & us autistics are known for having horrible social skills. We can s#ck at reading people, others can often misread us, & we also tend to be literal. For example there's been LOTS of arguments in L&D during my time here due to the fact that posters did not specify that they were not talking about all women or all men. If a poster does not specifically say that they are only talking about some & do not men all, others get upset because they are not like that & do not want to be lumped in with everyone else. Due to autism literal thinking, we need to specificlly say that exceptios can & do exist. I started trying to get in the habit of posting disclaimers that say that.
Exactly, Nick. We are by definition poor at social communication. I believe we should always give the other communicator the benefit of the doubt until clearly made otherwise. Of course, we would disagree on that too.

Sylkat makes a good point, ask, how did you mean that?
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