Marcela

On X, I use the reframe this way.

Critic.

Of course you have that opinion, dillweed.

It's because you're an uninformed and stupid.

Me.

I appreciate your confession.

Then I excuse myself from the conversation without explaining what I mean by confession.

Sometimes I mean my critic has lost the debate because they resorted to personal attacks.

In that case, I claim victory.

I scamper away to happiness.

Other times the personal attacks are not associated with an argument.

In those cases,

I mean the confession, to be about the person's poor mental health.

I'm no mental health expert, but insulting strangers is rarely a sign of good mental health.

When a critic, parentheses, a jerk,

enters fight mode by hurling a personal insult at you on social media.

They expect an insult in return or perhaps a blocked account.

What they don't expect is a puzzle.

When the heck does it mean when someone says they appreciate a confession you never offered?

It instantly changes the tone of the exchange and puts you in charge because you know what you mean and your critic wants to know because it's about them.