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Full honest question.
As an autistic person, do you rather have someone TELL you that they don't want to be friends with you or would you rather be ghosted?
I study philosophy and ethics/morality to a really deep level and hold myself to a personal level of integrity and honor.
If you move in the world in a manner that you want to give as much positive as you can and reduce the negative, holding onto your integrity, then the answer seems obvious.
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@jeffowski I'd need to be told. A side effect of perceiving time differently is that ghosting me is simply pausing the relationship. If I remember you at all, I'll remember you as the person I last encountered. Conversely, I don't ghost anyone; I just forget that other people may require regular contacts, even if there is no significant information to communicate.
"I consider you an acquaintance, and would prefer to stay there."
There are only so many for whom I can help bury a body.
@log -- LoL... The whole point of this post is to sort of show that this is the wrong answer.
As a person that identifies as neurodivergent, if you also identify as such, I follow a different modus operandi.
I'm not forced to pre-process everything and run it through "neuro-typical" calculus before speaking or acting.
I'm running in "neuro-divergent" code and sort of assume (with great success with other neuro-divergents) that other neuro-divergents have similar sensibilities.
@jeffowski It wouldn't be the last time all the options I could select would be wrong.