this post has a message that is overall true and is something that a lot of autistic people (which i’m assuming is the target audience since op uses the term infodumping specifically) could benefit from learning; that conversation is a two-way street and letting other people get a word in, and showing interest in their perspectives is helpful for social interaction.
however, i can’t get over how incredibly condescending, judgmental, and ableist the phrasing is, and — espcially considering the wording does read as if it specifically is aimed at autistic people who quite literally cannot help how their social cognition naturally functions — how that is completely unhelpful to fucking everyone. calling a behaviour that is literally inherent to many autistic people’s autistic traits “verbal masturbation” is disgusting bully behaviour, actually. not to mention that it reinforces extremly outdated psychiatric understandings of what autism fundamentally is (i.e. a disorder of extreme solipsism).
i also think that they’re approaching this from an incredibly bad faith angle in general, because it actually isn’t true that people’s bad reactions to autistic socialization is always just because we’re such useless worthless egocentric disableds who don’t care about anyone else. it’s actually very, very often because people are ableist and it doesn’t matter how much we try our best to engage in “normal” conversation because we’re perceived as fucking freaks. hope that helps.
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