• wellee@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    That’s not anywhere close to a hint lmao, that’s making it sound like you are engaged in the story. Hmms and hahs and silence are the hints.

    You tell someone something and they go “DAMN, that’s crazy!” That’s an exclamation and inflection indicating interest. Fuckin cmon how much do we have to read between the lines. It’s exhausting.

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      11 months ago

      A good hint would be: “man, my work is really busy”

      Also, it’s not hard to be like, “sorry I gotta get back to work”. It always seems like people can be harsher online to people trying to give them advice than the people they’re supposedly annoyed with.

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        11 months ago

        But can’t they be lying even if they have inflections? So if they say it more than twice, it could mean disinterest? Am autistic and cannot tell. I have trained myself to notice the typical flat responses if I’m with non Autistic people, but if they respond with any kind of inflection and something that sounds so interested/excitable, I could not tell.

        This is a particularly nasty “hint” imo :/