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by fragmede 586 days ago
It is as an extremely neurodivergent person that I reject explicit sarcasm markers.
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Well, good for you that you don't need them. Other people like and/or need them though
Who said I didn't need them? The problem is people in the real world don't have /s markers and often aren't actually your friends and can listen actually mean you harm. Part of my neurodivergence leads to me being trusting of people when I really should not, (aka I'm gullible) and this sends me down the wrong path sometimes. Since I'm neurodivergent and have trouble with this, the way for me to get better at it, is to practice harder at things that others find easy, not for me to demand and expect the whole world change to suit my needs.
And other people don't like them aesthetically or conceptually.

It's great how we can all make our own decisions when communicating, and can ignore judgement from people who say that they are "necessary". You're treating fragmede like they brought up "/s" as some sort of virtue signaling, when they were pushing back on porcoda for attempting to impose controversial new-age grammar.

Same and same.