Artemis on Nostr: I think I have given a lot of people "the benefit of the doubt" which other—not ...

I think I have given a lot of people "the benefit of the doubt" which other—not autistic—people might not extend, because I interpret people's words *first* for semantic content (the apparent "literal" meaning) before I process what the social purpose is.

Socially, nonconformity is bad, but many of the ways that is enforced do not involve explicit value judgments; they often are just someone pointing out some form of difference.