Okay I think I have stimulated my brain and proved to myself that I am indeed not necessarily wrong about everything all the time, and rather am capable of communicating reason and that the validity of my ideas does not depend on others' affirmative responses.
I don't always have these days, but I think scrolling on social media itself too long makes me worry about that.
Don't get me wrong, I don't want to stop self-examining and reassessing my thoughts and opinions. (Because I am certainly not right about everything). However, the sheer volume of people who very strongly disagree with me and sound so convinced keeps triggering my "okay reassess yourself and your ideas in case you are wrong" too much to the point that it becomes counterproductive.
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https://www.instagram.com/reel/DM5bkzPs_zv/?igsh=MXBvaHZyeXJieXFhdw==
It's not their realization that is problem. People develop and mature in different ways at different rates. Even this post can come off ironically holier-than-thou but the situation I think most people are thinking of isn't the same.
The obnoxious part is that they act like nobody else could possibly have experienced sonder before them. And now this person who is developmentally delayed in empathy is is saying all this with attitude that they are so much more elevated and enlightened than this poor person they are talking to, who has probably done a lot to put up with their lack of empathy the whole time.
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