These kinds of people always pretend they will be and just scam people relentlessly until they stop getting money then move on to something else.
It can be tiring living in a world that won't recognise you as a person, or at the least won't acknowledge a variety of experience.
So, yeah, it's understandable to not know or realise unless it's made clear.
It's weird and tricky, especially when it seems so contrary or different to your experience.
So, no trolling, and not trigger policing, though the above was probs on a bad day where I had less patience.
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