I didn’t mean to stress you out that bad, but I wasn’t “going on the attack” like you characterize me as.

Yes, you did - you regret it now that you realize you were genuinely hurting someone, but you absolutely intended to hurt me and you 100% went on the attack from the outset.

I don’t “need” an apology (which that wasn’t), nor do I want one from you, nor would I accept it if you’d offered one. I just want you to not do this to someone else in the future. I’m not expecting an apology from other commenters in this thread, either - that’s stupid, they didn’t do anything wrong, they misinterpreted an ambiguous comment. I got dogpiled for an unclear statement, it happens all the time on here, that’s fine, it truly doesn’t bother me, I’m actually quite good at navigating society as an autistic person. This interaction wasn’t the fault of any other person here but you, and I’m deeply saddened that you’re trying to make that the narrative now.

I had hoped you might be better than that.

Your entire comment is talking down to me like I’ve got no idea what just happened, despite me explaining your behavior to you, encompassing pretty much everything you just laid out in your comment, over the preceding several hours. I apparently knew exactly what you were doing long before you did, and told you what you were doing, and you ignored me because:

You thought someone was doing something wrong, and because of that it justified your being unbelievably horrible to someone else.

I get it, I really do - it’s hard to realize we’ve done something that has no good justification, that’s why you’re trying to couch this as you have defended the OP, why you’re latching onto my being autistic so you can altruistically explain basic concepts to me (again, I have already explained all of this repeatedly to you, you just ignored it because I was wrong on the internet and that meant it was morally justifiable to do so), why you’ve spent the last several comments attempting to force me to accept some of the blame so you can excuse some of your behavior, and why you’re avoiding so hard actually apologizing for being mean to me.

That isn’t you taking responsibility, and while I haven’t at any point denied my own responsibility for making an unclear comment initially - hence why I explained myself repeatedly (to you especially, which you chose to ignore) - you will only accept your own responsibility with a long series of exceptions and ways to morally weasel out of it.

You don’t think you did anything wrong, and if I was the kind of person that threw out terms like “narcissist” I might be doing that right now - but I don’t think you are one. I think you just saw an opportunity to be cruel to someone and get away with it. I think you enjoyed yourself. And I think you’re going to do this to someone else in the future, because you’re not able to accept what you’ve done. And for that reason, to make sure I’m not the next person you do this to, and to preserve what’s left of my peace of mind, you’re going to be the first person I’ve ever blocked on lemmy. Congrats. Have fun getting the last word in.

I know it’s dramatic when people say that, but I really hope you understand that you’ve just been too horrible for me to feel comfortable on lemmy with you here - I’ve already deleted all my previous OC to make sure you can’t see it and use it against me, because you are the kind of person who could justify behavior like that to themselves. You just spent hours proving that.

I hope next time you do this to someone like me, the very worst that happens is they throw up. But maybe, when someone spends hours trying to defend themselves against your repeated, baseless, fucking cruel bullshit, you consider they might be telling the truth when they say you’ve just misunderstood them.

And now unlike you, I really am done with this.