People being wrong is one thing. If I can see why they are wrong, I can choose whether or not to argue with them. If I can't see their reasoning at all but they are fully confident of their own rightness, it's unbearable. It's like an itch I can't get at.
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I need them to either make sense immediately or admit that they are not making sense. If they go on & on at me as though we are actually having a conversation, I get really angry and I think it's rooted in anxiety because I am someone who needs things to make sense.
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Possibly this is related to the OCD I almost entirely overcame 15 years ago. I was very ill from teens into twenties because I was trying to make sense of my Christianity & couldn't & kept thinking I was going to hell because I couldn't just have faith in it.
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This need for things to make sense has caused me in the past to yell at people whose disordered thinking and absolute confidence in it was then revealed to be part of a psychotic illness and not remotely their fault. :(
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The only other place I've found this kind of thinking irl was in a 12-step rehab clinic. It took me a long, long time trying to grapple with the ideas before I was confident to assert that they were utter charlatans.
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Using reasoned arguments against PoMo is like using a gun against poison gas
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Do you feel like they *could* make sense but they're deliberately choosing not to just to irritate you ?
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