DY – I know. That wasn’t my point at all, c”v. That was totally not what I meant at all. Like I said, there was a context. I may not have explained myself as clearly as I would have liked. I deliberately didn’t respond the first time because I wanted time to think about how to phrase things, but once the comment was repeated, I felt a need to respond.
My basic point was that if someone understands something differently than you did, that doesn’t mean that you can accuse them of making assumptions.
I was bringing in the RC example because I was trying to show that two people can understand things differently and one can be wrong and the other can be right. There is one right answer to every question on a RC test even though most people don’t get them all right.
If I get an answer wrong on an RC test and you get it right, I can’t then accuse you of making assumptions just because you saw something that I didn’t see. I also can’t claim that you have a different opinion than I do. Not everything is a matter of opinion. There is such a thing as reading comprehension skills and if someone doesn’t get something, it doesn’t give them a right to attack the other person. And I do not appreciate being attacked every time someone doesn’t understand me.
You are not being attacked. You are being asked not to speak for other people, When you chose to ignore the request and it is repeated, you are taking that as an attack. You are not being attacked. You are being asked not to put words in other’s mouths. Whether you perceive yourself as doing it or not , that is what has been happening. When it stops, so will the requests.