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or you could learn to articulate better. the noise cancelling unit in my brain is sub-par.
Hm?
Omg this is so me bruh
Nope, uno reverse card on this one.
People who think its weird to 1) express shock at a question and then 2) formulate an answer after they mulled it over a bit?
That isn’t weird at all.
What is weird is being incredulous at this phenomenon.
It implies at least one of a few things:
That you think anyone who says ‘huh?’ is indicating that they didn’t understand the literal words and meaning of question as spoken… not that they did understand it literally, but are expressing surprise that that question was asked, or any other possible thing that could be conveyed by ‘huh?’, maybe disgust, maybe horror, maybe annoyance, maybe nearly anything, etc.
That not having an instant response to any concievable question is abnormal.
Those things could imply that the person who thinks this way is impulsive, not inclined to deliberate or consider potential outcomes before acting/speaking, and/or also overconfident about their ability to understand language and expressions.
Also could imply they have a tendency toward totalizing, not being precise, not considering nuance or context.
IE, a person who genuienly holds this belief is more likely to be offended by their own / innocent misunderstandings, and is more likely to act rapidly, without hesitation, as well as potentially in a more severe way.
… like a psychopath.
Uno!
EDIT:
Sorry, I had to expand this a bit as I went… you know, because I thought about it more.
What about people who say
“You’ll never guess what happened at work today?”
So you respond with
“What?”
Then they repeat the question
The worst is schroedinger’s auditory buffer. (Heisenbuffer?)
If you give me a second to parse what you said, I can reply just fine. If you ask “are you listening?” in an aggravated tone, the buffer gets discarded instantly.
And this is completely orthogonal to whether I was trying to pay attention to your words, cuz I basically can’t process your words directly as you speak anyway.
So I might have an easier time continuing the conversation if I’m mildly distracted instead of constantly overwriting the perfectly understandable stuff from 5 seconds ago with the white noise that I’m hearing in the immediate present.
The correlation with psychopathy is a bit unclear to me here.
First person is just being an overactive fool and using psychopath as more ‘insane’
I just think it is more efficient to say ‘huh?’ Than to attempt at answering incorrectly. If the brain can figure out the question, with enough context, you can just answer it before they repeat. Otherwise you just have to listen again.
I think our brain already figured this out and do this on its own
people that can’t speak truth need time to formulate bullshit
people that can’t hear truth need time to deny it
