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• LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah, it’s sadly ubiquitous. I don’t think a day goes by when I don’t witness several sea lions in the wild

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Tucker “I’m just asking questions” Carlson must be the poster child for them.

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• PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sealion in an accusation that rests on assuming someone else’s intentions. You can’t ever know for sure if someone is a sealion, because people aren’t mind readers. I usually see sealioning accusations thrown by neurotypicals at autistic people, because they can’t read our emotions like they’re used to and that freaks them out and they assume hostile intent.

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, it could be mistaken for that if a person isn’t paying attention. But the difference between acting in good faith and not is usually pretty obvious as it goes on.

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    • PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well that’s a tremendous amount of faith in your ability to read other people’s minds. And given you make no distinction between reading the minds of neurotypicals and autistics, I’d bet good money that you’re frequently wrong when you try to read autistic minds. Which would make your actions towards autistic people frequently cruel.

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      • Agamemnon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Autistic mind here: Reading yours is giving me a headache. It’s like debugging a minecraft mod after patch day. Please reset aggression level to zero and run a malware scan.

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• Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve been running into something adjacent, but doesn’t quite fit that description. Basically people use the tactics of Sealioning but the motivation seems to be just reframing the conversation to whatever they wanted to talk about, rather than necessarily pissing you off. It can be just as annoying though.

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, that wouldn’t count because they’re just being a standard asshole who wants to control the conversation rather than trying to troll with bad faith questions.

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