Thanks, I am also autistic, so I guess we're evenly matched for this battle to the death :)

Also, I wouldn't presume to speak for all autistic people, though I am one.

Sometimes people can take the same sentence to mean different things. Please don't assume malice from others where it could be a difference of understanding.

I am not mad or anything, I know how it is to misunderstand things.

I just noticed (and got a chuckle out of) something:

To me it looks like you first "assumed malice", got called out and now don't want to be assumed malignant yourself.

Thanks for the chuckle!

But in seriousness: would you mind describing how you interpret your own participation in this thread?

I'm fascinated by this behaviour, but I suspect it's as "easy" as you not being able to interpret the original comment in more than one way.

(Just as I'm doing too, or at least we both seem to act like it anyway)

I said

> but I understand you probably didn’t mean it that way.

Which I assumed the person I was talking to originally would see, read, and understand to mean that their comment was rude but I’m sure they didn’t mean it that way.

Instead, a bunch of others jumped in to interpret it a different way. I don’t see how I supposedly have assumed malice when I literally said that the OP probably wasn’t being malicious in a slightly different way!

You are correct, I'm not sure how I missed the second part of your original comment, my apologies!

(I thought I could edit my first comment, but I can't, so this comment will have to do.)

No worries at all, I hate textual communication for the specific reason that it's hard to express true emotions through it.

Disclaimer: I also read it as rude at first glance.

Question: Can you classify what is rude or not for autistic people in general or is it more likely that you might perceive something as not rude which other autistic people might perceive as rude?

>Nowhere did he mention autism.

It's implied by being in a discussion about autism.