I handle people talking to me person to person on an equal playing field a lot better than someone trying to speak as a superior authority over me, and I am sure that most adults feel this way unless they are seeing some person as their mentor on something that they have no knowledge or understanding about hopefully since I am not trying to speak ot other people as a pretentious authority figure anymore, people will not feel like they should speak to me in that same way lol because I can see how annoying that is maybe this was one of the lessons for me to learn :p because you know who else used to speak to people here that way that just came to mind ? Luna and everyone eventually revolted against her lol
and I think that an antisocial pd focused forum is going to tend to have people who especially dislike someone attempting to have authority over them too, even more than like neurotypical adults
Yeah; it can be annoying. It can feel disrespectful. But, sometimes it's well-meaning, sometimes it's out of their (and our) ignorance (to feel that way), and a number of less-than-malicious reasons.
Despite the annoyed feelings though, the reality is that we're only beholden to the authority we believe ourselves beholden to. There are laws of physics and logic that we're kind of locked into during this life, but we pick and choose our authorities -- out of convenience or being convinced, usually.
Just remember that even in a place like this, you don't have to consider advice or suggestions or whatever someone says as an attack or true, without skeptical consideration, ever. But it is also healthy to remain mindful and humble, for we can blind ourselves with our ignorance out of a sense of pride. That does no one any favors either. That's just...practical, lived, experiential wisdom right there.
Also, yes: maybe it is a lesson for you to learn, but understandably hard to learn when the way to learn it is the challenge itself. It might help, though, knowing it's an area to focus on and treat it as lessons, but don't lose sight of other people and how what you do affects them (which is also probably a part of our every lesson).
Thrall to the Wire of Self-Excited Circuit.