Re:Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died
by Chris2048 on Thursday November 11, 2021 @10:24PM
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Does it take much to figure out if your tone is off?
Re:Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died
by romwell on Friday November 12, 2021 @03:24PM
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Not at all, people misread my tone so often that I might as well assume it's off all the time.
It works both ways though; sometimes I'm trying to tell someone to go fuck themselves in a polite way, and for some reason it takes them forever to get the hint.
I've learned to be patient in either case.
As an autistic person, who knows other autistic people, and is a part of online community of autistic people, I'll go out on limb and say that the OP is talking out of their ass, and I can comfortably speak on the behalf of the community on this topic. Other people who identified as being on the spectrum in this thread agreed.
OP never said they were autistic. It's just what they think autistic people would do.
It's an n=√-1 generalization: purely imaginary, and on top of it, insulting, because figuring out why a joke like "9 out of 10 people enjoy gang rape" is bad doesn't take that much.
Particularly because so much has been written about it. Go ahead and read [1], it's an excellent article. Or my comments elsewhere.
TL;DR: portraying the condition of "being a jerk" as an autistic trait is a jerk move.
>What I feel is worth spending time criticising is my business.
Then perhaps you should spend less time criticizing, and more time getting a clue — though again, I'm sure you have different plans regarding that too.
[1] https://theconversation.com/psychology-behind-the-unfunny-co...