Re: Correcting to be polite

Here, Karen Lofstrom <lofstrom@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how I, as an Aspie, upset people. It seems to be
> more than just ignoring body language, since there are folks online who
> hate me with a passion. I'm thinking that it might be my deplorable habit
> of correcting people. If someone says, in my presence, "the five noble
> truths of Buddhism", I'll pipe up, "Excuse me, it's the four noble
> truths". If someone says, "Well, he hasn't had any luck so far, so his
> luck is bound to turn", I'll say, "Um, sorry, but that's a common
> misunderstanding of statistics ..." And so on.

I've been generally prone to correct people on Usenet, and I don't
recall upsetting anybody with it.

(But I'm only on a few newsgroups, and those are all technical, geeky,
or programming subjects. Since about 1992, anyway. Possibly they all
have some version of the Fannish Mind.)

I hesitate to guess how you upset people without reading actual
instances of people getting upset with you. And I don't really want to
*do* that -- sigh. I run into enough angry people on the Net without
going out in search of them.

My limited experience with people chasing targets around Usenet,
shouting abuse, is that they're crazy.

--Z

"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..."
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I'm still thinking about what to put in this space.
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