The peril of talking to normal people
I had this experience in undergrad. And I had to stay for several days because I had no therapist for the staff psychologist to call. Being surrounded by genuinely crazy people for three days almost made me crazy.<p>Coming from a music, then music theory, then philosophy, then technology background, it&#x27;s an understatement to say that being precise in my language is extremely important.<p>Most people just don&#x27;t care that much about the exact meanings of what the say or the chain of logical implications implied by certain types of careless wording.<p>It&#x27;s a constant challenge for me to interact with people in a casual social way, so I mostly just don&#x27;t.<p>I probably come across as a pedant in many cases, but that&#x27;s not my intent. I just have a hard time intuiting what people mean when it&#x27;s something other than what they say.