As for the rest, I’m not sure I’m clever enough to come up with a set of words that will simultaneously communicate to you my disagreement and benignity. So, at least for now, I shan’t try.
Dude, saying this (or a simpler permutation thereof) would have helped me so many times in so many of my relationships. I really wish I’d learned that a kiss on the forehead and saying “Never mind, let’s go bake brownies” is a much better response than two paragraphs of autistic complex-compound sentences explaining how what I’d said was reasonable but how the other’s interpretation was also reasonable given the context. Such paragraphs went half-ignored and were translated as defensive self-justifying and blame-shifting moves. It was so annoying for so long, and I didn’t update until like two weeks ago.
Normal people don’t care about detailed explanations of the motivations behind what you say, they care about the imagined motivations behind what people would say in epistemic and emotional positions that are roughly similar to what they imagine to be yours. This leads to lots of confusion and frustration for the literal-minded.
Dude, saying this (or a simpler permutation thereof) would have helped me so many times in so many of my relationships. I really wish I’d learned that a kiss on the forehead and saying “Never mind, let’s go bake brownies” is a much better response than two paragraphs of autistic complex-compound sentences explaining how what I’d said was reasonable but how the other’s interpretation was also reasonable given the context. Such paragraphs went half-ignored and were translated as defensive self-justifying and blame-shifting moves. It was so annoying for so long, and I didn’t update until like two weeks ago.
Normal people don’t care about detailed explanations of the motivations behind what you say, they care about the imagined motivations behind what people would say in epistemic and emotional positions that are roughly similar to what they imagine to be yours. This leads to lots of confusion and frustration for the literal-minded.