have you experienced limerence
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerence
- yep76.2%
- no but it seems familiar11.7%
- no and it sounds insane10.1%
- (other-- comment)2%
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didnt occur to me to put a "yep and it was great" vs "yep and it's insane" options bc as a limerence-prone person it feels very much both, but on balance insane and miserable and seems to preclude having healthy relationships
but i may be wrong
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80% of >120 votes is wild u guys
is this representative of humans or are we having another "60%+ of people who see my tweets are neurodivergent" moment
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i cant tell whether
- people who are able to do things like "eat normally" or "think about anything else" think they've been infatuated when they've just experienced normal crushes, or
- whether most people just go batshit when they have a crush and no one talks about it
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i was under the impression that limerence just was the technical term for having a "normal crush" and that a normal crush includes all the things the wiki article talks about. do they seem different to you?
I eventually settled on "limerence is a more intense feeling that neurodiverse people get", crushes on the lever of limerence for NTs seem to be a late childhood-early adulthood thing, and later drop off
limerence also isn't traumabonding, the former naturally fades away
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but then again, it's all wishy washy at some point
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i guess it depends on what a "normal crush" is
heart fluttering when you see an object of affection?
thinking about them near-constantly, in a state of high alertness, to the detriment of your other relationships, possibly with other symptoms like "appetite loss"?
or ??
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yeah that's what i think a normal crush is
isn't this what like most love songs are about?
maybe would be good to run a series of polls on what people mean by "crush," symptom-by-symptom
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