Yes indeed. Mirror neurons are directly related to empathy I believe

Jerma

I don't know about you, but I am very reluctant to insult others, even in private conversations, even if they might deserve it

I always try to approach things constructively, because in the end, those patterns and thoughts bleed out into the world and your behaviour

And do keep in mind, even from the poster's side of the story, it sounds pretty darn bad, and people have a tendency to downplay their side's wrongdoings and elevate the other side's. Chances are, it was probably quite bad

If there's people in my life that go around talking badly about other like that, even in private.. yeah, I'd want to stay the hell away from them too. It's just a massive warming sign, and you're going to be the target sooner or later. And you don't want a coordinated group acting in bad faith against you

Like being mean to an NPC in a video game

I know rationally they are just a bunch of pixels and code, but as soon as they have plausible human dialogue, and I say something mean, and they act hurt.. something triggers in my brain and I feel that hurt. And I immediately want to stop

I literally struggle to be mean to a bunch of pixels, just because they mimick a living creature. It's also interesting because often it promotes a sort of dissonance, "I know this isn't real.. and yet I cannot help but feel what they feel.. Even though they feel nothing"

Okay, but I don't think this was intentional suffocation of the kids. This seems much more as an attempt to get everyone to survive

And yet, despite people saying what you say, I still struggle far more than neurotypical people and they can't understand why

I am diagnosed with both, and do relate to social media posts regarding the combination of both

I believe it was always the plan to return samples, however, that is assuming the funding for it won't be cut, which unfortunately might end up being the case

Maybe part of it is the whole "greatest country on earth" stuff as well. In other words, a lack of humility

In the European countries I've lived in, pride like that wasn't really encouraged. And if you're too boastful or what not to the point of arrogance, you tend to get the stink eye

And this applies to patriotism as well. Here in Norway for example, despite us having a stronger claim for stuff like "greatest country", very few people, if any, really feel like being "proud" of one's own country is something that one should be doing, or it being honorable at all. The best I see is that people enjoy living here and, if they see another Norwegian out there or Norway mentioned, they just get happy to see a fellow Norwegian, just because we are relatively small

Honestly, most Norwegians I've met complain about Norway's problems more often than not lmao, despite, all things considered, you can hardly find better countries to live in, except some other European ones depending on your own preferences

There really is just, no culture of like, arrogance. Something that I feel like is very different to the US with its super heavy emphasis on individual capitalistic success

Maybe that's a large part of it as well. A consequence of American culture being so extremely individualistic

Muscle memory from when people get annoyed that I'm "taking too long"

Sometimes it's appropriate to do many small messages as you're writing up the full thing, other times it's better to wall of text. It depends on the person and context imo

There is only one possible solution left

Cats are gas

It became an insult as a direct consequence of the incel community being as hateful and toxic as it is. As an insult term it doesn't actually have anything to do with not getting sex at all

Yeah, this is a really really neat way of looking at nature that I sometimes thought about. Nature is pretty fucking darn technologically advanced