*noises of mindblowing revelations about NTs*

[yvannairie]

So, like, okay

neurotypicals hate text-based communication because tone is much harder for them to convey in writing, and it's much easier to misunderstand one another that way

and I've had people accuse me of "reading too much" into what they write because of this kind of miscommunication of tone

but I still vastly prefer communication over text, because people's exact words will always be available for me to ask clarification on (and learning how to ask clarification in a non-hostile, non-accusatory way is one of the things I am desperate to learn because it would make my life so much easier)

while I absolutely hate trying to talk things out with people because most people communicate so much with tone and posture, which I cannot parse at all, unless I'm talking to someone who's as much of a chatterbox as I am

............ can it really be that simple?

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[shadaras]

True! Codeswitching is hard but necessary to learn, and the more communities a person is in, the more dialects they need to learn. Internet/written conversation is just another variation on that.