That's really fair criticism. OP, if you're still reading, please don't take anything I wrote here as an attack on you. Instead, it was meant to be a reflectio

That's really fair criticism. OP, if you're still reading, please don't take anything I wrote here as an attack on you. Instead, it was meant to be a reflection on your situation from someone who struggles with many of the same communication issues, in many of the same ways.