• [deleted]@piefed.world
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    8 hours ago

    People that are good at reading emotions are wrong about the reason/cause a significant portion of the time. Like noticing someone is uncomfortable doesn’t make the reason for being uncomfortable obvious.

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      2 hours ago

      People misread social cues, emotional states, intent, incorrectly ascribe causality of these things, etc., all the time, every single day, constantly, for a wide array of reasons.

      https://mindorigins.com/mind-reading-or-mammalian-instinct-why-we-misinterpret-social-cues/

      People with low self awareness or high overconfidence just don’t realize that they are.

      You actually have to have a significant amount of humility in order to have “high eq”.

      People who make an entire personality or significant personality trait out of their infallible ability to read people?

      Who will outright tell people: “I know you better than you know you”?

      Vast majority of the time, in the vast majority of contexts, such a person is a delusional manipulative narcissist, a cult leader / grifter scam artist type personality.

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        1 hour ago

        I definitively can back that up from personal experience. I tend to be quite good at detecting what emotional state people are in, but not why

        Due to certain mental faults I tend to assume or believe that ita because of some error on my part, but that’s often not the case, and I’ve been wrong about it many many times. Assuming I did something wrong when in reality it was something else

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          41 minutes ago

          Hey uh, that second paragraph?

          I am not a psychologist, but:

          unrequested unprofessional psych evaluation

          Thats probably a sign of something like being raised by abusive narcissists.

          Your natural instinct is ‘it has to be my fault’?

          Yeah.

          Because narcissists tell other people its always their fault, its their flaw or poor decision.

          Its a form, or aspect or manifestation of hypervigilance.

          Because you are so used to some new problem happening that is somehow, your fault or responsibility to fix, or address.