MUTUALLY ASSURED DISTRACTION
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been very dysregulated recently and I can't tell if 1) it's because I stopped masking/suppressing feelings or 2) I'm going crazy
hey this thing still on?
one of the hardest things for me to internalize has been that people very often insult you not bcs they genuinely look down on you, but simply bcs that's how they've learned to communicate still unsure of how much of that is okay to tolerate
every so often I happen to be part of group convos that devolve into people evaluating the intelligence of the people in their broader, direct environment, and every time I am reminded that my understanding of who & what makes one smart is v different than that of the median person
when you don't have experience, you need to borrow it from others with good-enough theory of mind, you should then be able to internalize a good-enough approximation of their experience, and thus operate at a good-enough level before even gathering your own xp