as body experiences i’m not sure i can tell the difference between “cringe” and “shivers down my spine”
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maybe i do both simultaneously sometimes and it confused me on the labeling 🤔
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woah, I think of these as entirely different experiences
cringe is contracting, tight, diminishing
shivers are much more open, vulnerable, effervescent feeling
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there’s like a shivery feeling i sometimes feel when i watch - idk exactly how to label it but e.g. certain kinds of rhyming singing - that i used to think was cringing at overearnestness but now i think i was actually touched and then also embarrassed by that, or something
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does cringe tighten the muscles in your forehead? I don’t think shivers do that
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woah, I think of these as entirely different experiences
cringe is contracting, tight, diminishing
shivers are much more open, vulnerable, effervescent feeling
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Imo cringe is centred around the gut and the shivers are well, down the spine..