My all time favorite: "you'll understand when you will be X" At the beginning, I really took it at face value, and patiently waited until I was X. Older. In a

My all time favorite: "you'll understand when you will be X" At the beginning, I really took it at face value, and patiently waited until I was X. Older. In a relationship. Having my own business. I was very naive, I though people shared experience and knew something about life. Every time I ended up being disappointed when reaching the point X actually prove the other side was full of crap. I didn't understand that it was only a way to stop the conversation. It had nothing to do with logic, it's a matter of saving face, getting out of a boring interaction, or about power. A lot of human interactions are like that: if you think people means what they say, you are misunderstanding the communication. I used to take so many things literally, I though people chose their words for their dictionary sense. Turns out only a small part of communication is actually about the literal sense of words, like technical documentation or giving direction to reach the bakery, which I'm good at. It's also a fact that is obvious to most humans, although they are mostly oblivious to their own fluency, since it's as transparent as walking to them. People on the autistic spectrum, however, need to figure it out. But don't worry, you'll understand it all when you will be Z.