Jaded wrote:
Or just totally blindsided by people's reactions to you??
Sometimes it makes my head spin and forces me into an internal thought loop called "WTF is their problem with me?" This is guaranteed to drain me of energy.
I really don't get it.
Totally blindsided; a very apt expression for a recent experience I had on a discussion board at another website. Something I wrote provoked a furious reaction from one person. I went back over what I'd written. Couldn't see what is the world had caused the trouble. Later, I considered that this person was being what the Brits call 'bloody-minded'; meaning, I think, deliberately misinterpreting what I said in the worst, most antagonistic way imaginable. I wonder if similar scenarios play themselves out frequently between aspies and NTs. Those of us who stand out in a crowd seem to make a tempting target for the insecure and the mean-spirited. Ross