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15 Sep 2010, 4:34 pm

zer0netgain wrote:
This can go both ways.

Typically, I find written communication easier for me to say what I mean and avoid saying things I should not say.

However, I'm amazed at how some people will expect you to literally "read between the lines" and understand something they did not put to writing but somehow you should have gotten that message from what was written.


That might be very true with an NT, but with an Aspie you are much more likely to get taken literally so that what you see is what you get... or what you say is how it will be interpreted with no fluff or hidden meanings added to it. I often go out of my way to try to remove any possibility of such unintended meanings just to be on the safe side, but it isn't always possible to catch them all.