Does that suggest (serious question) that people who don’t get written sarcasm and irony, and as you probably know there are many around here, may be suffering from Asbergers?
It seems fairly evident that FReepers as a group have a higher than average incidence of Aspergers to me.
Visit any John Semmens semi-satire thread if you don’t believe me, lol.
“Does that suggest (serious question) that people who don’t get written sarcasm and irony, and as you probably know there are many around here, may be suffering from Asbergers?”
I don’t know. Just speaking for myself, I do much better at discerning sarcasm when it is written as opposed to spoken. When something is written down I can take a moment to stop and consider it but when I stop to assess what someone *says* to me it ends up being more socially awkward than if I just go ahead and do my best to figure out what the person meant to say.