What are you especially sensitive to, the way the princess was sensitive to the pea?
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i don’t believe this for half a second. what are you hiding from us vgr?
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I’m serious. I rely on other people’s sensitivities. Crowdsourcing canary-sense. I’m not particularly insensitive either. Just average. Mainly my attention is pretty inward directed most of the time so I’m just not paying a lot of attention to the external world to begin with.
I find my sensitivities heavily rely on who I am around physically
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Hmm are you maybe thinking vulnerabilities? Like more sensitive to insults from friends than strangers? I can’t see why a sensitivity of the pea-under-mattress type would depend on social context.
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Unless sensitivity to conceptual distinctions counts. It’s a processing sensitivity than a ‘pea’ type input sensitivity. Splitting over lumping
Rooted in youthful insecurity about being lumped with others. Now sublimated into generally useful “A is not the same as B” sensitivity
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