Is this a weird text to receive from MIL?

[whitepeonies44]

Is this a weird text to receive from MIL or am I just being hormonal from the pregnancy? I received this after I texted her an update on our latest scan. “Brilliant. Hope you all well and that you are not getting too many bruises from the kicking! Xx”

Some really unnecessarily rude comments to the OP. Is it so hard to understand that different cultures interpret language, nuances, and metaphors differently.

@CervixHaver Are you on crack?

I was genuinely asking after the op!
I have suffered pnd and honestly the shit my brain thought up was insane.

Not sure if I needed to add hearts to the post to show there was no passive aggression to the op

Not at all weird.

That was uncalled for and you know it

I'm not sure it was
Ladywinesalot was just asking her if it's her first pregnancy as we all know we're a little uptight/sensitive when it's our first.

Did you not realise she was talking about your baby kicking?

It's fine. The thing is, people constantly say cringy things to pregnant women. It's because it's exciting but there's almost nothing to say. Be glad she didn't say "were you trying?" -- people complain about that on MN all.the.time.

That’s a sweet message to receive. No idea why you’re offended

@Ladywinesalot @HectorHalloumi
No she didn't read it properly, you asked the OP "how she was" and @CervixHaver read it as "how old she was".

Some people are just too quick to look for offence everywhere including seeing things that aren't there!

@CervixHaver
Ahh you misread my
“How are you Op?”
As
“How old are you op?”

Perhaps an apology for your mishap?

@whitepeonies44

Thank you everyone for your input. I didn't grow up in this country so I wasn't sure! I appreciate your feedback.

Fair point but then maybe you should sorry what do you mean ? .

Op that's a nice message, i just used to get 'thanks' and sometimes nothing! Stopped sending her updates in the end.

Just hormones.
Don't look into it too much.

@CervixHaver she didn't say that though did she. READ.

Threads on here get wackier by the day.

Guys this thread is going nowhere, let’s wrap it up here.

I can’t see what you think is wrong about it?

She sounds lovely, I'm amazed you looked at it any other way?

Is it the British sense of humour that doesn’t translate well? We do have a tendency to make jokes about everything almost as a way of denying emotion, where perhaps other nationalities would be more sincere and serious.

@Shrivelled

Guys this thread is going nowhere, let’s wrap it up here.

Not until @whitepeonies44 comes back and explains what she thought was wrong with it

She sound caring and good fun

She's trying to be funny OP.
It's a well meant message.

Just to clarify, I'm not English and sometimes the British sense of humour baffles me. I'm still getting the hang of it as I didn't grow up here.

@pinkgin85 is correct when they said "different cultures interpret language, nuances, and metaphors differently."

Not sure whey people are being a bit rude in some of the comments as I thought this was a safe space to ask a genuine question and get some guidance.

Thanks again to those that provided helpful comments. I appreciate it.

Well, we know she was talking about the baby, but it's not at all clear what op thinks, actually.

@GreyhoundG1rl Yes, that's why I asked her.

@whitepeonies44 it would be really helpful if you could explain what you thought she meant. So that the rest of us don't make similar mistakes when talking to someone for whom English isn't a first language/first culture.

@whitepeonies44 We're just deadly curious now what you thought she meant.

Your English is practically native. I have autistic traits and am not like this myself, but know that some autistic people find humour hard to grasp. Could that be a possibility?