Communication to make people feel emotions: Difference between revisions
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Apparently | Apparently [[Allism|allistic]] people often — perhaps even mostly — '''communicate to make the listener or listeners feel certain emotions'''.<ref name="make-feel" /><ref name="dee-newtsoda" /> | ||
This is important to bear in mind, as speaking to actually convey information might have the unintended side-effect of making people feel emotions. Not only that, but it's so intuitive to allistic people that saying what you said would cause the emotion they felt that they'll assume you made them feel that way on purpose, ''even if you explain to them that it wasn't intentional'', because it's seen as "obvious" that it would have that effect. This could easily lead them to believe you made them feel bad on purpose, then came up with an implausible lie to pretend you didn't. If you can't lie, explaining that won't help, because again, such a claim sounds implausible to them. | This is important to bear in mind, as speaking to actually convey information might have the unintended side-effect of making people feel emotions. Not only that, but it's so intuitive to allistic people that saying what you said would cause the emotion they felt that they'll assume you made them feel that way on purpose, ''even if you explain to them that it wasn't intentional'', because it's seen as "obvious" that it would have that effect. This could easily lead them to believe you made them feel bad on purpose, then came up with an implausible lie to pretend you didn't. If you can't lie, explaining that won't help, because again, such a claim sounds implausible to them. | ||
Revision as of 13:47, 1 September 2022
Apparently allistic people often — perhaps even mostly — communicate to make the listener or listeners feel certain emotions.[1][2]
This is important to bear in mind, as speaking to actually convey information might have the unintended side-effect of making people feel emotions. Not only that, but it's so intuitive to allistic people that saying what you said would cause the emotion they felt that they'll assume you made them feel that way on purpose, even if you explain to them that it wasn't intentional, because it's seen as "obvious" that it would have that effect. This could easily lead them to believe you made them feel bad on purpose, then came up with an implausible lie to pretend you didn't. If you can't lie, explaining that won't help, because again, such a claim sounds implausible to them.
This is one of those instances where a lot of patience, understanding, and credulity is required from all involved.
References
- ↑ The Field Guilde to Earthlings, Star Ford, pages 78-79 and 105-106
- ↑ Twitter thread Newtsoda Dee
