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I get that ASD can make communication difficult. I can’t say enough how much therapy can ease that burden as someone with a chinese take-out menu of diagnoses.
Allow me to translate.
My first comment was about how ownership and value are ephemeral. I used a joke with a positive twist to show you, an unfamiliar ape, that I’m a friendly ape.
I took your response as “You don’t take this seriously, and are not a serious person.” But then I thought maybe this person is using “you” in the broad sense.
My second comment was “should I take this personally?” Followed by a clarification that I don’t agree with the way things are, either. Ape tells another ape “We can both see the weather sucks, we have something in common.”
Your response sounded like “you still don’t take this seriously, here are some big words because I’m more serious than you.” But then I thought maybe this person is neurodivergent. I shouldn’t read malice into this.
I reponded to say “This is how I communicate with new apes. I put thought and consideration into it. Also, I understand your big words but choose not to use them (in case you’re being a dick.)”
The method of understanding any communication is inference, and heuristics are practical because not all tasks take the maximum effort to get to a workable result.
Regardless, I may have poked, but I meant no harm, strange ape.
There are lots of things I would like to address and fix if I wasn’t stuck in bed with a bad back. Therapy might fix some. Most of my issues are circumstantial.
Not at all trying to be a dick. I’m disassociated from time. I’m not actually using my broader vocabulary. Not trying to be an ass or anything like that. I have been super into AI stuff for the last few years where I need more specific language. I started noting stuff I came across and wanted to recall by posting some of it here as Word of the Day but like 5 people ever cared so eh. I’m rather poor at language IMO.
I blame my time spent painting cars for my dynamic range of detail. Maybe if I was not stuck physically disabled, spending most of my time stuck in bed, I would be more aware of larger vocabulary, or less inclined to ramble on to make my points. I don’t directly interact with much of anyone any more, so I am rather disconnected from feedback of what exactly constitutes big words in a practical sense I can manage. I try not to be a pretentious asshat by using words without surrounding context. I usually save that stuff for real insults, returning 8 to 12 letters for every halfwit four letter expletive dished into the fray.
Normal is a person you have not taken the time to get to know yet. It is a fallacy and abstraction of the mind; normal people do not actually exist. Some take a little digging to find eccentricity, but no one is spherical, or lacking a Chinese menu.
I was merely explaining my thoughts and intent with a little personal experience in the mix.
Sorry about your back, that sucks. Isolation can drive a person to unusual places.
Writing is a practice, like cooking, both art and science. Big words don’t mean big thoughts, as Hemmingway has taught us. “Fuck it,” is a full sentence.