[ SECRET POST #2080 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2080 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 034 secrets from Secret Submission Post #297.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 3 4 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[unicornherds]

Did you honestly feel the need to absolutely add the whole "I don't believe autistic people exist"? I mean, the rest of your secret is on the up and up and I'd probably be willing to give you advice or whatever if not for that part. Now I just think you're an asshole and don't want to help you out.

I mean seriously.

[(Anonymous)]

Except that I think the OP was saying that she doesn't believe people when they say they're autistic on the Internet because it seems like they are just using that as an excuse, not that she doesn't believe autistic people exist at all.

[unicornherds]

She said she will never ever believe anyone on the internet has autism. I think that's bullshit and OP sounds like an asshole.

[(Anonymous)]

You're gonna call her an asshole because she wasn't clear enough?

I'm not the brightest bulb in the box but even I got that she meant she wouldn't believe anyone (any stray, random jerk who engaged her online) on the internet had Autism just because they said they did.

[unicornherds]

Here's the thing, unless you're actually OP neither of us can be right or wrong. You read the secret one way, I read it another. You think OP is a poor soul who is being unfairly misunderstood, I think they sound like a jerk. Either or. There is no absolute way to prove what OP meant. So really, saying that you understood what OP secretly meant and know the ONE TRUE ANSWER is just silly.

Edit to clarify: I don't mind debating secrets and meaning and whatever, what I have a problem with is when people start talking about what OP "meant" to say, like they have some secret inside information and insinuating that everyone else's interpretations are obviously wrong and you are dumb if you don't see that. Which is what you just did.

[(Anonymous)]

There is no absolute way to prove what OP meant.

You're right - there's not. But if you can concede that there's no way to know what she meant, why would you jump to the worst assumption on what she meant and call her an asshole for it?

I went back and read it again. Her secret reads: "I have not and will never ever believe anybody on the internet who says they have autism." Not "I have not and will never ever believe anybody on the internet has autism." Conceding your point that there's no way to prove what the OP meant, her phrasing (though slightly awkward) is highly indicative that she simply meant she didn't believe anyone who said they were autistic was actually autistic. Especially when the only time they claim autism is when they're being called out for unacceptable behavior.

But I'm sorry, I know I'm just splitting hairs at this point. I appreciate you expanding on what you thought in such a reasonable manner.

[(Anonymous)]

You're right - there's not. But if you can concede that there's no way to know what she meant, why would you jump to the worst assumption on what she meant and call her an asshole for it?

Because it's so much more satisfying to get offended and feel morally superior than to admit the other side may have a good reason to feel the way they do.

[otakugal15]

This.

[unicornherds]

You're mistaking a different interpretation as jumping to conclusions.

[(Anonymous)]

Not really. In this case, they're the same thing.