This is going to be a comment on the recent spate of johnswentworth-introspection posts as a whole.
I
It’s often interesting to get a look into someone else’s mind. I’ve enjoyed this sequence a lot.
II
A lot of what you’ve said has been kinda familiar to me. I think whichever personality vector separates you from the median person, I’m on a similar vector. I think it’s somewhere on the fringes of rat-personalities but not an outlier among them in the way that it is amongst the general population.
III
I think you’re further from median than me (around 2 times, 90% CI 0.75-5) which might have made it easier for you to identify parts of that vector which I hadn’t on my own, but that I can recognize in myself.
IV
If I have any advice at all to give, as someone who experiences similar things to you, it would be this: you are weird on a very deep level, let go of being deeply normal.
Obviously there are innumerate benefits to being shallowly normal, and you should try and do those (it’s also totally possible to be deeply weird yet shallowly normal) but if your brain gets nothing out of romantic relationships then that’s probably just the way you are.
V
Or maybe you just have some kind of obscure mineral or hormone deficiency or you lack some skill like properly perceiving body language or something, you never know.
This is going to be a comment on the recent spate of johnswentworth-introspection posts as a whole.
I
It’s often interesting to get a look into someone else’s mind. I’ve enjoyed this sequence a lot.
II
A lot of what you’ve said has been kinda familiar to me. I think whichever personality vector separates you from the median person, I’m on a similar vector. I think it’s somewhere on the fringes of rat-personalities but not an outlier among them in the way that it is amongst the general population.
III
I think you’re further from median than me (around 2 times, 90% CI 0.75-5) which might have made it easier for you to identify parts of that vector which I hadn’t on my own, but that I can recognize in myself.
IV
If I have any advice at all to give, as someone who experiences similar things to you, it would be this: you are weird on a very deep level, let go of being deeply normal.
Obviously there are innumerate benefits to being shallowly normal, and you should try and do those (it’s also totally possible to be deeply weird yet shallowly normal) but if your brain gets nothing out of romantic relationships then that’s probably just the way you are.
V
Or maybe you just have some kind of obscure mineral or hormone deficiency or you lack some skill like properly perceiving body language or something, you never know.