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Do you ever get that thing where you're just really into a thing you're discussing, and then another person says something incorrect, and because you're aware of this tendency of people to confuse passion for ego, you try to suggest as softly as possible that it's an understandable mistake to make (and then you have to try to get to the root of the issue which is like a few levels down in the deduction, sorry, abduction path), but they still get angry at you for having pointed it out, even when you did it just to further the actual discussion?
I don't know, might be a niche thing. Might be I just am a dick. But I don't know if dicks would consider if they're dicks. But I might just be saying that because I'm a smart dick pretending to not be a dick. I don't think I am, though, but maybe I'm lying to myself.
Yeah, I get that sometimes. And very strongly when I do. More than once I've even found myself called out for self-absorption simply because I pushed back against being attacked by others. And their defense is always to go figure it all out on one's own as if that's not what conversation is for.