Don’t be edgy.
Edgy is being passive-aggressive.
Being passive-aggressive is an NT communication style, not an autistic one.
Some autistic people internalize this as part of their masks.
If you want to be passive-aggressive, just be “aggressive” and say what you want. Be you. Don’t sugar coat.
@theautisticcoach what do you mean by "edgy"?
It evokes similar thoughts and associations in my head as "woke", which is to say a nebulous fluff that I can't really define.
@theautisticcoach oh, you call #sealioning being "edgy"?
I'm not used to edgy having negative connotations.
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@gringene I was unfamiliar with this term, thank you for sharing!
For me edgy goes a bit beyond the examples there, but that’s most of it
@theautisticcoach it's possible the final "trolls, creeps and fools" catches most of the rest of what you're calling edgy.
But that's for people who have obvious bad intent behind their actions. These are not people trying to stretch the envelope of acceptance, or advance discourse. They're just mean, and use a thinly-veiled language of jokes and non-apologies to sugar-coat their harassment.
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@theautisticcoach my partner seems to share your definition, by the way (or something similar).
They had a curious contrast of edgy and woke: right-wing people don't want to define what woke means, because if they did, it would highlight the ridiculousness of their edgy arguments against the woke people.
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