most manipulative people aren’t evil masterminds. they’ve just figured out that pushing the red button works at least 85% of the time. they don’t know why they do it; they just know they feel vulnerable and don’t want to feel like that anymore
Because not being able to tell when people are trying to deceive you is a maladaptive trait in basically every context. They aren't saying it is your fault, they are saying it makes you vulnerable.
I tried to have sex with husband today and he didn't want it I offered a BJ he didn't want it I went to take a shower while weeping and asked him to leave the bedroom and then I used my vibrator on my pussy and came alone.
Some genuine sad adult advice here:
Oftentimes autistic people who are very nice to everybody are pleasant company to have around, but in their excessive kindness others (fairly or not) discern a kind of intense emotional porousness that subtly asks for reciprocation and —
russian man at my friend’s hostel describe alcohol as a lubricant for the conversational sphincter and then fell down the stairs head first after several negronis
These videos of twenty-something-year-olds staring blankly into the camera, reciting obvious& unimpressive thoughts in a performative monotone wouldn’t exist if they instead sat in front of a mirror, pretending to be interviewed, realizing mid-sentence how uninteresting they are
eu estudando psicologia: nossa que subversivo
eu se eu estudasse Biologia Marinha: nossa que submersivo
eu se eu fizesse letras: nossa que substantivo
eu estudando epistemologia: nossa que subjetivo
@ChristianityOn more like 'Guy who can see Air, but is manually breathing each breath, finds out that everyone else does it automatically and more efficiently, they also find him annoying for talking like Sepiroth about his Blood Oxidation Ritual'
at some point in every autistic person's life they must learn the hard lesson that they are not actually a member of the bene gesserit seeing the social fabric of reality in ways no one else can, but are instead kind of a boring guy with a neurodevelopmental disorder