I don't know how not to.
Also: Any sort of verbal interaction started with a rhetorical question is bound to suck extremely. Very likely to send me into a negative spiral TBH.
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Rhetorichal questions are annoying.
Having to listen to me answering it seriously is fitting punishment.
Right?
Yes.
isnt the comment you replied to complaining about ~~esoteric~~ rhetorical questions?
edit: for some reason i forgot to write the rh, accidentally added so after the e, mistook e for o and missed the al
Rhetorical questions are implicitly statements. If those implied statements are wrong, then you correct them by answering the rhetorical question as if it were a real question.
5 years later:
Ohhh.... that was rhetorical.
Just because a question was posed rhetorically doesn't mean the answer is as forgone as the asker assumed.
I mask by answering them in my head and not out loud.
I think this is one reason I'm frequently labeled a reply-guy.
That is an autistic trait?
Severe ADHD here and, uh, if it's autism, it's also ADHD. heh
edit: Hi. I have severe ADHD and I do the thing in the image. So if the thing in the image is an autism thing, it is also an ADHD thing, because I do the thing in the picture. <3
I don't think I have autism, probably ADHD though.
Are you implying that all autistic people have ADHD?
No.
I said I have severe ADHD and was saying that if this issue is an autism thing, it's also an ADHD thing, because I'm in this picture and I don't like it.
It needs to be stated clearly!
yeeeeeep this is me
Wow, I am not alone!
