Whether I like it or not, people tend to overfit the curves associated with past trauma to available data. If I want to avoid being pattern-matched to someone’s trauma, I have to take extreme measures. Hedge phrases pretty reliably don’t cut it… they’re like making incremental improvements to my bird-feeder to keep squirrels away: I just end up training the squirrels.
Whether I like it or not, people tend to overfit the curves associated with past trauma to available data.
If I want to avoid being pattern-matched to someone’s trauma, I have to take extreme measures.
Hedge phrases pretty reliably don’t cut it… they’re like making incremental improvements to my bird-feeder to keep squirrels away: I just end up training the squirrels.