#similarly i AM that person who like. will probably interpret a full stop in chat as disapproving | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

aeide-thea · 6 months

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unfortunate that i have such a strong rsd* response to terse replies even when objectively their semantic content is positive and contextually there's evidence to suggest the person generally likes me/enjoys talking to me 😔

⸻ * note that as ever, what i really mean by this is 'repeated social disapproval' culminating in a learned trauma response, which you could probably file under c-ptsd if you liked that language—i don't really buy that it's an ~innate characteristic of adhd~ the way i understand the tiktok+ crowd tends to argue, since i'm pretty sure i didn't experience it as a preschooler

#like if you send back 'lol' & nothing else i WILL be like 'oh ok i'm an embarrassingly unamusing dancing bear who should go hide in a hole'#(which is hard 2 do as a bear!)#because it feels like SUCH a lead balloon of a response even though in theory it's actually a thumbs-up #similarly i AM that person who like. will probably interpret a full stop in chat as disapproving #in the absence of other indicators to the contrary #& like. i know ppl have different idiolects & also sometimes terseness is about distraction and not dislike! however. what if i just 😶‍🌫️#anyway. a general thought not prompted by any immediate interactions.#the psyche #communication

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