I Just Remembered An Interaction I Had, Like A Year Or Something Ago. I Had Gotten Injured And I Made

I just remembered an interaction I had, like a year or something ago. I had gotten injured and I made a kind of tongue in cheek comment about wishing people would check in with me more about it. And a friend of mine asked me right after how the injury was. And I took her at face value. But I'm not sure if she was jokingly responding to my request for attention or if she was serious. Help

I just just realized I have so much trouble with knowing when people are joking. But not in the usual way. My thing is that if someone says a fact and then follows it up by stating the opposite, I'm not sure which one was the joke. And like, my siblings all joke like this, and I always understand it with them. So I don't know what it is about other people, but if anyone outside my family makes a joke by stating something that isn't true - I'm screwed.

Last week, I narrowly avoided this situation because I agreed with something that was said to a third party, and then when the person revealed they were joking, I just played it off like I had known and was Yes and-ing them

I think if we could just call in the Amish communities, all of the damage from Hurricane Helene could be rebuilt in a day, two tops.

Something that some folks don't understand about friendship is that sometime the correct response to "I'm an idiot" is not "No you're not! You're so smart!!" Sometimes the correct response is "What did your dumb ass do this time?"

Reblogging because this is true of Hurricane Milton too

I think if we could just call in the Amish communities, all of the damage from Hurricane Helene could be rebuilt in a day, two tops.

Hi honey how was your day at the gaslighting factory?

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