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A phatic expression is speech used for social or emotive purposes rather than for communicating information.[1] Phatic expressions are not about the literal meaning of the words but rather about the implied nonverbal subtext.
A lot of allistic communication is phatic in nature. The tendency of autistic people to take things literally is one of the many reasons for frequent misunderstandings between those two neurotypes.
