I also suck at reading real-time intent. It's one of the reasons
  why I find internet stuff a little easier than "real life"
  because it gives me time to pause and reflect a tiny bit.

  I suspect I have Aspergers / something on the Autistic spectrum
  somewhere. Academically, I tested very well in school, with the
  exception of one area - "What is the author's intent?".

  This baffled me for decades. How can I get 99.99% on other crap
  in standardized tests but get 60%, 62%, 57% on author's intent
  questions?

  I thought perhaps I'm a lateral thinker. Maybe I'm creative!

  Or perhaps I can't 'read intent' [that is, fall in line with
  social expectations of mind-reading capabilities].

  But it's thanks to years of experience online that has allowed
  me to see patterns in online behavior. I suppose I'm an online
  behavioralist of sorts. I see the patterns and while I don't
  always know what part I'm playing at first, eventually I can see
  it.

  I had my cage rattled just moments before I saw this response
  from you.

  It's on a topic I feel dearly about - the future of humanity +
  AI or rather, I feel strongly about any apocalyptic notions of
  the future of humanity.

  I had my cage rattled, I threw up several responses, which I'm
  keeping up there because, like 'real life', once you've said it,
  you've said it, and I'm willing to stand behind my words.

  But after your encouragement and my response, I realized, "Wait,
  I'm just a guy acting on a stage. I just played my part! "

  And so, thanks to you, I was able to add a response that
  addressed the stage-nature of Internet discourse and it brought
  me back to grounding again and I have again, grown just a tiny
  bit wiser than I was before.

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