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.Coming from a music, then music theory, then philosophy, then technology background, it's an understatement to say that being precise in my language is extremely important.Most people just don'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.It's a constant challenge for me to interact with people in a casual social way, so I mostly just don't.I probably come across as a pedant in many cases, but that's not my intent. I just have a hard time intuiting what people mean when it's something other than what they say.