I find that my increased openness about being weird like this attracts more and more people with highly specific wounds.
It's a whole mess of stuff rejected and ridiculed as occult nonsense by mainstream society. Once you're openly willing to entertain the thought, though...
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It would be perverse to indulge in saying much more because people need all the anonymity they can get, but it's a very particular kind of problem.
Like those certain guys who are shocked to learn female friends have been raped, most people signal "unnerving me is unsafe."
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This protects you from weird and crazy shit with remarkable effectiveness. It's a strong social firewall. But it also isolates victims.
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In fairness I had been flirting with it for a long time. It's been hinted before that there were some in the Sami parts of the family, though who knows?
My default social positions land me so squarely in pariah territory that embracing it seems natural, though. I'm always askew.
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