Like you go through this mental threat profile "This is the answer that would probably make them happy, this is the answer that would hurt them, this is the answer that would piss them off and drive them away" The question "Okay but how do you actually feel" is much harder
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And this is why therapy is such a challenge, because it's like the goal of talking about yourself at all is to either get something you want out of the other person or to get them to back off and leave you alone, and doing so for any other reason is dangerous and foreign
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The weird thing being this isn't an obstacle to talking about yourself or "opening up" at all, and indeed you're *better* at that than most people, you wanted to be an actor for that reason
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"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made"
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Why they're asking is definitely a factor
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This is the root of good social skills, right?
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That sounds like a way my autistic masking works. (If you wanna talk more about autism my DMs are extremely open) The silliest way this represents is that if I'm looking for something lost, my brain keeps pinging me that I should say "found it!", even though I have not
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Like it goes, "if I say I found it the other people will be immediately very excited and happy, and never mind what happens after"
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...Maybe. [He says, after thinking first] Though in my case, of course, if I don't like the outcome ... VWORP VWORP VWORP.pic.twitter.com/qeQxRJIODz
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I mean, it's really complicated when you're hyperaware that one of the primary functions of language is instrumentality. We use language in order to change things, to make things happen. Once you know that, you can't really turn off considering everything from that perspective?
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