Tone Indicators are anything in the form of shortened text accompanied by a forward slash (/) to indicate the tone and emotion of a message. Neurodivergent people often times have trouble conveying and understanding emotion or tone of messages. Through written text, it becomes harder to understand tone due to a lack of voice, body language and facial expressions. Even some Neurotypical people struggle to grasp the emotion or tone of text messages.
Tone Indicator Masterlist
Not Serious
- /j - joke
- /hj - half joking
- /ij - inside joke
- /t - teasing
- /lh - light hearted
- /th - threat (only as a joke)
- /slur - attached to words that aren't actually slurs (only as a joke)
- /s or /sarc - sarcastic
- /f - fake
References
- /q - quote
- /ly or /lyr - lyrics
- /ot - off topic
- /c - copypasta
- /ref - reference
Language Devices
- /m - metaphor / metaphorically
- /li or /lit - literal / literally
- /hyp - hyperbole
- /rh - rhetorical question
Affection Types
- /p - platonic
- /r - romantic
- /aff - affectionate
- /qp - queer platonic
- /a - alterous
- /fam - familial
- /sx - sexual intent
- /nsx - no sexual intent
Sincerity
- /g or /gen - genuine
- /genq or /gq - genuine question
- /genrq or /grq - genuine request
Directed
- /nay - not at you
- /ay - at you
- /nbh - nobody here
- /nah - not anyone here
- /nmay - not mad at you
- /nmah - not mad at anyone here
Positive
- /pos - positive connotation
- /hap - happy
- /exc or /exci - excited
Neutral & Other Emotion
- /neu - neutral
- /apa or /apath - apathy
- /conf - confused
Negative
- /neg - negative connotation
- /lu - a little upset
- /up - upset
- /vu - very upset
- /sann - slightly annoyed
- /ann - annoyed
- /vann - very annoyed
- /lm - little mad
- /vm - very mad
- /ang - angry
Concern
- /conc - concerned
- /w - worried
- /lw - a little worried
- /vw - very worried
Intention
- /pi - pun intended
- /npi - no pun intended
- /ngt - not guilt tripping
- /npa - not passive aggressive
- /gs - general statement
- /js - just saying
- /nm - not mad
- /nav - not a vent
- /v - vent
- nbr - not being rude
- /nai - not an insult
- /sym - sympathizing
- /em - empathizing
- /cont - continued (in next post/message)
- /safe - safe to open/read
Symptoms
- /sympt - symptom
- /anx or /anxi - anxious
- /nerv - nervous
- /trig - triggered (only to be used when an actual trigger is set off)
- /fb - flashback