Do you have any weird abilities you never trained or learned? I don’t mean like superpowers, I mean more mundane things like how some people can remember long strings of numbers or how some people have perfect pitch. I bet some of y’all can fart on command.
I can attest that I have a 100% success rate in determining if a person is evil within seconds of meeting them. I don’t know what that’s called but it’s like the thing Bruce Willis does in Unbreakable. I’ve successfully identified people I’ve thought were going to be murderers several times and I was correct. I’ve been able to identify racists, a guy who neglected his kids, and I was the only person in my entire family to get weird feelings about one of my uncles. He ended up getting convicted of fraud because he was stealing life insurance payouts at his insurance job. I just go off vibes and maybe I’m ignoring all the false positives I get but anecdotally I’ve always been correct about my weird feelings, and I often detect evil in people who are otherwise well-liked among others before they do the evil thing. I just feel it even when there’s no noteworthy evidence I dunno.
So can y’all do anything cool?
I have upsetting news for y’all.
The evil person detection skill is learned through trauma. You’re recognizing patterns in human behaviour based on people who have hurt you.
It’s an example of hypervigilance, but it really is almost prescient. Traumatized people learn to recognize and avoid dangerous people based on subtle and not-so-subtle cues that others simply don’t notice and need high speed cameras to even document
I am not upset by what you have said, I have been aware that I can read people super easily because of trauma. I have never been treated for it. I don’t think it can ever be fixed.
Thank you for letting others know that it is because of trauma.
Well fuck
Guess I should probably go back to therapy