How do you use exclamation points without looking autistic?

Start by not being autistic. I think it's pretty easy from there.

My female superior at work sends me chastising emails with tons of exclamating points (like "Redo!") to sound more authoritative, I suppose. Shit's hilarious.

>>9122990
Never use them at the end of a sentence. If you use pen and paper, make them exclamation comas, not exclamation points. If you're typing on a keyboard it's not as simple, but you can still add a coma just after the exclamation point, and not use a capital aftrewards, so that it expresses momentary excitement instead of autistic shouting.

>>9122990
Sad! Many such cases!

I like to be friendly and approachable and I'm always anal retentive about seeming terse in written correspondence. So I use exclamation marks in emails, even though I feel effeminate when I do it every fucking time.

All of my emails to professors look like I'm a milqueteoast beta male trying too hard to impress a girl on OKCupid or something. Whenever I write them, I picture myself as a guy in a sweatervest and bowtie being way too chipper and unsettling everyone. But if I try to write normally, it always reads to me like I'm being an asshole.

Don't

Italics pretty much replaced exclamation points in modern lit

>>9123967

Use neither.

>>9122990
>>9123967
>>9123043
is the post-ironic exclamation point going to be the next literary movement, and is it just going to end like any other memberberry-initiated rehash?
I hope not desu!

>>9122990
In dialogue, and it if can be replaced by another method of conveying exclamation and still have mostly the same message, then don't use it.

>>9122990
Due to the lack of emotion in the typical way Autistic people speak, using exclamation points makes you look the opposite of Autistic.

if you're sincere, and you use the exclamation point sincerely, then the reader will know it, and you will have used it well.