In high school someone I knew because we sometimes had the same classes randomly came up to me one day and recalled a slightly amusing offhand remark I made over a year earlier. Up to that point I assumed everyone promptly forgets the things I say or do
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Idk if I have anything like thks but good post. Wish more people would ask themselves that honestly, maybe we wouldn't have so much "cringe culture"...
When I was chilling out one evening with some people I was volunteering with, someone pointed out another person was wearing odd socks, and they replied "no I'm not, they're the same species."
He was right, they were - different colours, but the same style and pattern otherwise. So for over a decade now I've exclusively bought patterned sets of socks so I can mismatch them and accuse people of sock racism when they try to call it out.
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A while back I was reading an article about the power of words, and how they could completely up-end lives. The example they used was someone telling a couple:
"I'm sorry, your child didn't make it."
Paraphrasing: "That noise and all those wild disjointed hurtful thoughts that your brain produces....did you know that that's actually NOT you and you can tell it 'shush'?"
It never occured to me that my brain and my thoughts could be kind of externalized like an annoying roommate i'm stuck with but who doesn't define me. Also got me into thinking a lot more about how my body and other senses interact with my brain. I used to have crippling anxious episodes but I have some really good coping tactics/practices now.