Maybe the interesting thing was not her. Maybe the interesting thing was how quickly my brain created a story.
We see the behavior. Then we guess the cause. And sometimes, we mistake that guess for understanding.
incapable.
Today, I saw a mother standing alone by the football field. The rest of the parent group was gathered together, like herd animals. She stood apart from the safe group.
My first thought was:
She is outside the group.
Something is wrong here.
influenced the person’s behavior enough to serve as an exception or explanation for why they should not be held fully responsible.
In other words, the actions were affected by the biology of the body, the mind, and the emotions. The person was, in a sense, caught by it and made
Human behavior and biology consist of what happens in your mind, your body, your actions, your emotions, and how all of it is connected. There have been murder cases where the defense successfully argued that menstruation, a drop in blood sugar, or even an addiction to junk food