Literal-mindednesss and academia
A couple of nights ago I was at a party, and one of the other people at the party was a university professor. She said that the first assignment she gave her students was to send her an e-mail. In the e-mail, they were supposed to include their name, their hometown, and their major. That's all she told them. She didn't say to include anything else
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Absolutely weird stuff.
Who addresses any email, even a formal one, that way?
And why would I write an email any other way but the way that the directions given to me in a class said to?
Being expected to do more than is on a list of things to do falls into the same sort of "that isn't logical" area for me. The NTs have an abundance of magical illogical thinking in their neurological make-up.
My stock answer when confronted with yet another person telling me that I should just "know" how to do xyz is pretty much:
Mind-reading costs extra.
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