1:13pm September 13, 2014

*sigh*

This is what happens when you try to over-analyze a word I’ve used, when I’ve already told you not to over-analyze a word I’ve used.

When I used ‘organization’ in the context of LW, I meant all of the groups of people associated with LW.  Formal organizations.  Informal groups.  Nebulous blobs of people that fall somewhere in between.  All of the above.  Taken together, as a whole. 

This is why I hate trying to have conversations about LW, because somehow it always turns into someone trying to pin down my words, rather than understand what I meant by them.  And somehow it always comes down to what they think I meant, rather than what I say I meant.  

And this happens more frequently in the context of conversations about LW than it happens in any other kind of conversations I ever have, anywhere, and that's yet another red flag for me that something weird is going on.  Like this kind of conversation can practically be guaranteed, which is why I don’t talk about LW as often as I might want to.  There’s a lot I’d have to say about it if I could be sure I wasn’t going to be spending most of the conversation dealing with people second-guessing my word choices.  Which is hell if you have a language disability anything like mine.

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