“Let me make you feel this way real quick…”
“No reply, just feel!”
It’s this. Anyone who asks you a question and then interrupts your reply was either trying to ask a rhetorical question (which is ambiguous for anyone in this scenario, neurodivergent or typical), or is acting in bad faith. You’re completely justified in feeling frustrated by it.
That question can be clear by tone, and by level of trust.
I’m a very curious person, so I want to understand what drove a decision (even if it was “I don’t know” or “Just seemed like the right answer”), and I want to understand someone’s approach to things - there’s lots to be learned that way.
But yea, quite often it’s a rhetorical, judgmental question.
Excuses are generally made to avoid responsibility, and they aren’t always completely accurate. Explanations just clarify what happened.
The thing is, the person receiving an explanation might well just assume it’s an excuse, and it’s hard to convince them otherwise.
In reply to the meme: Anyone who asks why and then cuts off the person they asked immediately assumed that ANY response would be an excuse, since they didn’t listen to it.
I absolutely hate when people say shit like that, and I will 100% tell management in front of everyone “If you just want someone to blame, that’s fine but don’t ask me to explain something and then get pissy like a child when I do exactly that.”
Because that’s exactly what they are doing.
And I will not participate in such assery.
It’s not just you, neurotypicals on the receiving end of that hate it too. Everyone gets told that garbage line once in a while. It’s always said by someone on a power trip, they’re trying to put you down into a place beneath them
