I'm triggered by people who believe in astrology, or talking to spirits or deities or reading energies or whatever. Am I just overly sensitive or closed minded or judgmental? Maybe but... I think there's something else going on here. An analogy:
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And it might not be as sinister with the astrology people, but it has the *potential* to be; I still treat a gun as dangerous even if the next shot is a blank. And ultimately this is my discomfort - when I'm around these people, I feel misunderstood, or missed, or alone 11/
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in the deep value of curiosity and self doubt, and I feel afraid and uncomfortable at the small possibility they might turn on me in the future because they never were really in connection with me to begin with. I don't like this feeling, it makes me sad. 12/12.
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I was patiently reading along, waiting for you to realize this. Projecting your own trauma onto other people who use astrology or whatever to organize their reality, is an example of the sort of 'leakage' you're describing.
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this sort of comment makes me mad, like you're assuming i didn't realize it a long time ago
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Same boat. I wonder too if there's a 'point of no return' which could put me in her out-group, the very thought of which is infuriating. Equally, she's now in her 60s and has lived an objectively good and upright life, in spite of her beliefs. I guess empathy?
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While I agree this is especially grating around religious topics, I get the feeling that most people around me operate kind of like this in general. I don't have full access to the maps and sketches of me that exist in their head of me, and I will never get the most useful ones.
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I get the sense that I'm hypersensitized to this issue relative to the norm, to be clear. I just wanted to extend this concept of "They think X about you, they will never reveal X about you, yet it subtly informs every interaction they have with you" a bit outward.
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