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> Those people are crazy, he said. It is human nature to want to associate with people who display attributes you wish to see in yourself, and to avoid the con
by jhayward 7y ago
> Those people are crazy, he said.
It is human nature to want to associate with people who display attributes you wish to see in yourself, and to avoid the converse. The aphorism "you are the average of your 5 closest friends" is based on that idea.
If your brother is self-aware of his illness and doesn't like its effects on him then his response is perfectly understandable to me.
- devoply 7y agoThat's not it. The biggest issue is that people who have this disorder can't interpret what other people are saying properly, like someone might be talking about taking a dog on a walk and the person thinks they are talking about how they are a dog. And being around other people who have the disorder makes it even worse because you have people that have delusional ideas and speech inspired by those ideas bouncing off other people that are interpreting that speech in a strange way. Which leads to an amplification of the perception of the disorder.