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Front and center is the sentence correcting some slight, inconsequential anachronism that has nothing to do with the overall point of the comment and only serves to show the perceived intelligence of helpfulness of the commenter. Then there is a short sentence, more of an afterthought, addressing the point of the comment.

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Well, have you met these people? It's common in work/life too. "You're smart and do good work, but stop being so pedantic and socially inept!"

You can't break out deep thinking from the surface layer aspie absent-social-mindedness. Just smile, accept them for what they are without pitying them, and keep making the world a better place together.

Maybe I made a simple mistake of unintended rudeness in a post, how does that make it worthy of me being autistic? Fuck you douches!

You could start by not masking your condescension with some sort of vague higher purpose.

thank you for saying this.

Why, you couldn't say it yourself?

'cos the other guy got there first and it would have been pointless repetition, Though the 'thank you' was pretty pointless really.

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