Knowing and objecting to what someone or a group of people is trying to say is not the same thing as not knowing what's being said.
The phrase "not understanding social cues" is used by a lot of people these days, to describe people who usually then get diagnosed as having autism or some other mental disorder. I think that a lot of normal children and teenagers have probably gotten diagnosed with mental disorders that they don't have, just because they got bullied by other people their age.
There's nothing categorically wrong with not being like everybody else; it's not a mental illness.
Copyright L. Kochman, February 9, 2016 @ 9:58 a.m.
