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teksla
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22 Apr 2016, 5:26 am

Why are so many people wimps and care about what anyone and everyone says?? I dont understand.


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22 Apr 2016, 6:48 am

There's a fine line between being considerate to people, and letting people walk all over you.



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22 Apr 2016, 8:45 am

teksla wrote:
Why are so many people wimps and care about what anyone and everyone says?? I dont understand.

Fear of being left out, simple as that. If you don't care what other people think, they won't care about what you think, and you'll be excluded from the group.



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22 Apr 2016, 8:47 am

When in Rome, do as the Romans do,

Conformity is necessary to a degree for survival,



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22 Apr 2016, 9:07 am

dcj123 wrote:
When in Rome, do as the Romans do,

Conformity is necessary to a degree for survival,

I'd just like to clarify: for pack animals it's necessary. Even then, virtually every pack animal has "lone wolfs" so it's not some rule written in stone. But if one feels weak, then yes, a group will alleviate that feeling.

I myself, however, find the pack to be against my own best interests and survival instincts-- one of the pack's prime tools for protection is feeding it's own members to predators. So if I'm considered "weak" because of my autism that tells me I'm one of the first to be given up and fed to a predator-- I'll take my chances on my own. I feed myself (not a supermarket, literally growing my own food), I know where water is, I have shelter and can make shelter if needed. The only thing a group would be useful for is protection, but even then you probably only need protection from the group itself since man currently has no natural predators aside from himself.



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22 Apr 2016, 9:26 am

A Chuck Norris meme would go really well about now



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22 Apr 2016, 9:46 am

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22 Apr 2016, 9:59 am

^^ hahaha good one



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22 Apr 2016, 11:53 am

Because they get shot down so many times for acting naturally and speaking their minds.


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22 Apr 2016, 12:26 pm

Meet the Social-Survival Mammoth.


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22 Apr 2016, 12:37 pm

Spiderpig wrote:
Meet the Social-Survival Mammoth.


LOL

8/10 That was a good read, would read again.



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22 Apr 2016, 3:12 pm

dcj123 wrote:
Spiderpig wrote:
Meet the Social-Survival Mammoth.


LOL

8/10 That was a good read, would read again.

7/10 I really like the number 7 so yeah. :lmao:


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22 Apr 2016, 4:30 pm

When you don't have the natural ability to socialize very well it means that you have to be more careful about how you interact with people because you might unintentionally offend someone and the consequences can be serious. I mean, if you offended your boss you could possibly lose your job.



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30 Apr 2016, 12:47 pm

It depends on what you consider "wimpy". Is being friendly, polite and generally having good manners wimpy? Because that's the biggest Canadian stereotype ever, and Americans think we're all wimps. Which is also a stereotype, but they exist for a reason.