[a] “You aren’t really in pain. [b] Or if you are, you shouldn’t be in pain / you suck or are weak for feeling pain right now.” [a] Being told you aren’t in pain SUCCCKS, especially when you’re in pain.
Claim: Even if you’ve reached a point it would be to costly to give the other person adequate emotional support, the least you can do is not make them think they’re being [a’] gaslit about their pain.
The dialogue refers to two possibilities, A and B, but only A is referenced afterwards. (I wonder what the word for ‘telling people their pain doesn’t matter’ is.)
Non-rhetorical. The spelling suggestion suggests an improvement which largely unambiguous/style-agnostic. Suggesting adding a word requires choosing a word—a matter which is ambiguous/style dependent. Sometimes writing contains grammatical errors—but when people other than the author suggest fixes, the fixes don’t have the same voice. This is why I included a prompt for what word you (Hazard) would use.
For clarity, I can make less vague comments in the future. What I wanted to say rephrased:
they intentionally or [un]intentionally communicate:
“You aren’t really in pain. Or if you are, you shouldn’t be in pain / you suck or are weak for feeling pain right now.” Being told you aren’t in pain SUCCCKS, especially when you’re in pain.
Claim: Even if you’ve reached a point it would be to costly to give the other person adequate emotional support, the least you can do is not make them think they’re being gaslit about[/mocked for] their pain.
Here the [] serve one purpose—suggesting improvement, even when there’s multiple choices.
Errata.
or [un]intentionally communicate:
The dialogue refers to two possibilities, A and B, but only A is referenced afterwards. (I wonder what the word for ‘telling people their pain doesn’t matter’ is.)
Yeah, I only talked about A after. Is the parenthetical rhetorical? If not I’m missing the thing you want to say.
Non-rhetorical. The spelling suggestion suggests an improvement which largely unambiguous/style-agnostic. Suggesting adding a word requires choosing a word—a matter which is ambiguous/style dependent. Sometimes writing contains grammatical errors—but when people other than the author suggest fixes, the fixes don’t have the same voice. This is why I included a prompt for what word you (Hazard) would use.
For clarity, I can make less vague comments in the future. What I wanted to say rephrased:
Here the [] serve one purpose—suggesting improvement, even when there’s multiple choices.
Aaaah, I see now. Just edited to what I think fits.