Social effects were actually positive: although I disagreed with people and could sometimes spot why they were wrong, I didn’t voice my opinion. I made exceptions in the case of genuine mistakes, things like doing your math wrong, but if someone wanted to believe something, I didn’t feel like I should take that away from them if it meant taking away part of their biological identity. So, during that time, I was noticeably easy-going and agreeable.
In terms of adverse effects, there were really only mental ones, in that I wasn’t correcting my mistakes. It wasn’t as literal a belief as I make it sound—it was more like belief in belief and such. Most of the time I think I rounded it off the cached wisdom of respecting others’ opinions.
Social effects were actually positive: although I disagreed with people and could sometimes spot why they were wrong, I didn’t voice my opinion. I made exceptions in the case of genuine mistakes, things like doing your math wrong, but if someone wanted to believe something, I didn’t feel like I should take that away from them if it meant taking away part of their biological identity. So, during that time, I was noticeably easy-going and agreeable.
In terms of adverse effects, there were really only mental ones, in that I wasn’t correcting my mistakes. It wasn’t as literal a belief as I make it sound—it was more like belief in belief and such. Most of the time I think I rounded it off the cached wisdom of respecting others’ opinions.