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He spent the best part of a day compiling a spreadsheet of possible answers to a conversation, the wrote a lengthy blog post telling us about it. That is not no
by monk_e_boy 9y ago
He spent the best part of a day compiling a spreadsheet of possible answers to a conversation, the wrote a lengthy blog post telling us about it. That is not normal.
- kyberias 9y agoQuit categorizing people into normal and not normal. It's not normal.
- albertgoeswoof 9y agoIt’s not healthy would be a better assessment
- skinnymuch 9y agoThat's actually pretty damn "normal". A shame. But pretty "normal"/common.
- kyberias 9y agoI have to agree. But I couldn't help myself.
- monk_e_boy 9y agoSure it's normal for people to make an assessment on other people. Some of those people fall outside the bell curve. The middle of the bell curve for a particular trait (e.g. talking on the telephone) is normal - so about 90% of the population. You want to redefine the word normal. OK, sure. What should I use? Different? Strange? Unique? Flower? Snowflake? I don't know. Sounds pretty odd behaviour to me. Not wrong, not bad, not dirty. Just weird. Odd. Not normal.
- Tharkun 9y agoHave you done/read any studies on people's telephone behaviour? No? Then how can you speculate about what does and doesn't fall within 2 standard deviations of the mean?
- Tharkun 9y agoPray tell, why isn't that normal? And why are you qualified to decide what is, or isn't, normal?
- monk_e_boy 9y agoIf his response was normal there would be no telephones because no one would use them. Hence he is not normal, he is unusual. Different. I get to decide because i am human and humans make assessments about things and people.
- DanBC 9y ago> Recently, when I was at mum’s alone, the house phone rang. I didn’t answer it. It rang again immediately. I didn’t answer it. It rang again immediately. I stood over it, willing it to stop, palms sweating. Sweating palms is a fear response. It's adrenaline and fight / flight. It's pathological, it interferes with his day to day life, and he deserves safe effective evidence based treatment.