[ SECRET POST #6730 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6730 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[(Anonymous)]

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>>My feeling is that at least some people are mistaking what is in fact a perfectly normal reaction to a dysfunctional environment as evidence of neurodivergence, and you can really see this when people describe what they think a neurotypical person is: someone who never misunderstands social cues or in-jokes, never feels uncomfortable or anxious or distracted or self-conscious, never experiences imposter syndrome, never feels different from those around them, never has to act differently from their "true self" in certain social settings, never develops an intense interest, etc. It's not a person who truly exists.

I've seen a lot of variations on this, from different groups who want to shoehorn every aspect of their identity into one label (or a pastiche of them) to explain "everything" about why they struggle, socially. And society aids and abets this delusion at every turn - the belief that only people who share one, particular minority trait ever feel like outcasts, or experience self-consciousness, loneliness, rejection, anxiety, distress, etc. When the truth is, I can't SEE your pain, and you can't SEE mine, but that doesn't mean we don't all know what pain is.

Solipsism, in the form of people being hyper-aware of their own inner life but blind to the fact that other people are just as real and just as deep as they are, has gotten completely out of control.

Part of what I miss about the internet back when you had people pouring their hearts out on LiveJournal without friends-locks was that it felt like their honesty and willingness to really talk about what they were feeling and experiencing was reversing that. People were seeing for themselves that their dark secrets were human traits, and a complete stranger could put words to them with uncanny accuracy. FandomSecrets isn't that, but in some ways, it seems like one of the last relics of a space where that sense of "unknown person, you know me," was commonplace.

[(Anonymous)]

SA Related to your point about how many (neurotypical) people feel like they have to build false selves, in the US, and feel alone: https://web.archive.org/web/20160605024327/https://www.alternet.org/culture/i-left-us-and-stopped-pretending-be-extrovert