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Do you perhaps fall on the aspergers spectrum? I realize I often make assumptions on how others mind’s work so I’m curious. I’ve heard that often conversations seem derailed when those on the spectrum pivot to subjects they are interested in versus a current topic. So it’d be helpful in identifying if that’s the case so I can understand other similar comments in the future.

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I am not the one making any assumptions. There is no need to specially interpret my comment, since it was not terse and cryptic, it was wordy and explainatory. One must go actively out of their way to convert it into some unspoken meaning.

I could have reached for the same cheap "are you mentally abberrant?" but did not. That alone does in fact perversely make me aberrant I guess, in that it feels like the norm to do that when one can't figure out if they are actually right and if so how to articulate it. Attack the personality if you fail to attack the argument. Anything but admit you said something silly once you've said it.

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