> Readers are placing a large degree of faith in the author's self-assessment. I, and I imagine many others, have known people who are totally oblivious to exac

> Readers are placing a large degree of faith in the author's self-assessment. I, and I imagine many others, have known people who are totally oblivious to exactly how repellent their personalities are. The author may be extremely difficult to talk to, or extremely emotionally unstable. They mentioned 'years of therapy' in their post. Most well-balanced people get through their life without requiring 'years of therapy'. There's an article I quite like about this (http://www.nonsymbolic.org/PNSE-Article.pdf http://www.nonsymbolic.org/PNSE-Article.pdf), about people thinking that they're enlightened and that everything is fine with them, except it's not.