Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
Call me a liar if ye absolutely must, but I'm realizing that I don't really have issues with the people I talk to on RF just with what they say. In other words, when I talk about various topics I don't use their views and opinions against them. Each conversation is unique. Each "like" and "funny" has its place.
In real life I have what they call facial blindness (prosopagnosia) due to brain surgery and epilepsy. I wasn't diagnosed but they picked it up on my, what, four hour neuropsyche test. Anyway. I remember teaching ESL class (don't ask) and for some reason I can't remember faces. Students (they were adults) would feel offended or saddened because I'd talk to them but when I see them again for a second to a minute I can't figure who they are. I thought it was just me. Then I met this one guy (I walk a lot) and known him for a good two or three years off and on and he was the ONLY person who picked up on it. He told me when I see him he waits a minute (a good one) till my brain catches up with who Im seeing and then he says hello. I wish others can do that but they just see me stare at them before it clicks-maybe when they start speaking or their hairdo or something. It gets frustrating, really.
On RF it's somewhat like that. There's no term for it (maybe just emotional indifference) but I treat every person the same until (not before) they say something that I disagree with heavily or whatever the case may be. I wonder if you can have "reading blindness" or whatever you may call it. In person, the emotional indifference has to do with my brain and trauma but on social media its just with what is said not who says it.
It really makes me wonder (again) if I feel this way why not others. If we judge strangers/people by who they are not what they say, what does that say about the person who judges? Since they are strangers, it's all opinion.. but why live with such an opinion of others unless it gives you an emotional high that you "get others back."
I don't know. This is a vent.
In real life I have what they call facial blindness (prosopagnosia) due to brain surgery and epilepsy. I wasn't diagnosed but they picked it up on my, what, four hour neuropsyche test. Anyway. I remember teaching ESL class (don't ask) and for some reason I can't remember faces. Students (they were adults) would feel offended or saddened because I'd talk to them but when I see them again for a second to a minute I can't figure who they are. I thought it was just me. Then I met this one guy (I walk a lot) and known him for a good two or three years off and on and he was the ONLY person who picked up on it. He told me when I see him he waits a minute (a good one) till my brain catches up with who Im seeing and then he says hello. I wish others can do that but they just see me stare at them before it clicks-maybe when they start speaking or their hairdo or something. It gets frustrating, really.
On RF it's somewhat like that. There's no term for it (maybe just emotional indifference) but I treat every person the same until (not before) they say something that I disagree with heavily or whatever the case may be. I wonder if you can have "reading blindness" or whatever you may call it. In person, the emotional indifference has to do with my brain and trauma but on social media its just with what is said not who says it.
It really makes me wonder (again) if I feel this way why not others. If we judge strangers/people by who they are not what they say, what does that say about the person who judges? Since they are strangers, it's all opinion.. but why live with such an opinion of others unless it gives you an emotional high that you "get others back."
I don't know. This is a vent.
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