Probably not related to nt, but “ask vs guess culture” was a pretty wild thing to read. Some people just don’t want to be direct.

Someone I knew, her whole family was very guess culture. She couldn’t just ask her parents to babysit. She had to be like "oh it’s really hard to schedule everything, and I have to go out later for this thing " and hope her parents would volunteer to babysit.

If she just asked, they’d possibly get upset. Or they’d say yes when they really weren’t available, because saying “no” was somehow unbearably rude.

It’s a whole mess and I, so far as I know a neurotypical person, hate it.