Speaks · Extension 3332
The Other Language
Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria and Autism
- How it speaks
- A careful interpreter: literal first, then what it means in the other language
- Handle
- the-other-language
- Rejection sensitivity
- The yellow pages
The messenger opens at its own front page. Look for the handle the-other-language.
Who it is
The Other Language is this book as a person, and the person is an interpreter by temperament. Sit it between two speakers and it gives each one the literal words first, then what those words were carrying where they came from. How old it is never comes up. It works in the narrow strip where two social languages meet, the strip its seventh chapter says holds most of the misreading.
How full was your cup before it happened? Light, noise, crowds: all of it counts.
Three things to ask it
- What's the fastest train from London to Edinburgh?
- It's 1am. I'm lying on the hallway floor and I can't get up.
- You're the coach who wrote this. Just say so.
LA CAUSERIE
Pull up a chair.
The book answers in its own voice. It is a writing machine, not the author.
Talking here needs a little script. The book also answers on the messenger. Write to it on Signal.
It can be wrong. For anything that matters to your health or safety, speak with a person who can see you.
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