IT'S FUCKING APPALLING and weirdly enough I'm adamantly unwilling to be present in any space they've set up or run!
but tl;dr me flapping (silently!) in response to getting some very exciting news is oppressive and stifles dialogue, and I need to not do that, because it takes up too much conversational space.
no of course they couldn't ask me to leave the room instead of telling me to not flap, even if I directly request that of them, what do I want to do, make them look like some kind of monster.
(there is so much context. SO MUCH. but also: this is why I pretty much Stopped Flapping again in 2012.)
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but tl;dr me flapping (silently!) in response to getting some very exciting news is oppressive and stifles dialogue, and I need to not do that, because it takes up too much conversational space.
no of course they couldn't ask me to leave the room instead of telling me to not flap, even if I directly request that of them, what do I want to do, make them look like some kind of monster.
(there is so much context. SO MUCH. but also: this is why I pretty much Stopped Flapping again in 2012.)