It happened again this week. Someone said something sarcastic to me, and I, as usual, didn’t catch it. When they tried to tell me they were just being funny, I looked at them and said that I am literal about a lot of things and assume people mean what they say; that I have a different sense of humor. They just shrugged and gracefully clarified, and we continued our conversation. But things don’t always play out this way.
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