a subgenre all its own xD
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Speaking of subgenre, imagine if there was a book and all the injuries in it were eye related 
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…prob exists XD
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If you did, I’d want to see the offender say yoink as rhey did it.
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I feel like octopus are mermaids’ dogs lol
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Then are squids cats?
Giant Squid are ambush hunters.
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Well, dogs are averaged amarter than cats, so it works…badly.
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I’m imagining instead of getting scratched you get suckers to the face! XD
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Their beak is worse than a bite.
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Or they could say Zoinks.
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The reference is classic. Certainly would catch some people.
…that load pic is just not right.
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Guard Squid!
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Zoinks! I never noticed his voice was so high 
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It is.
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Psychopathy and empathy haha. Cuz I was curious to see how exactly ppl with ASPD could feel empathy. Turns out they can turn it off and in at will, in a way.
It goes against the conventional belief that psychopaths can’t feel empathy, hence its strangeness. But it’s weird in a good way cuz it can dispel some questionable myths about mental health, which is amazing lol.
Also, the story of a high-functioning psychopath who is invoked in philanthropy. again, weird in good way because it shows that there’s more to these kinds of people than meets the eye.
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Interesting take! Very interesting indeed!
Thanks!
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Just mulling through that:
Considering that “it can lessen with age”, there’s certainly got to be some ability to manage it.
And it also makes sense that it follows what we naturally do, anyway. Everyone turns it off when they justify their behaviors against someone they dislike. If it is wrong to treat someone as less than your equal, then it is wrong to do so to someone who opposes your ideology–yet we do it all the time, as a collective. It’s why we have laws that force inclusion, and why those very laws get used by someone they were meant to oppose because eventually the ostracization goes full-circle.(Especially while we deny that it’s ever gone to the other extreme.)
Where we often go wrong with “making a character” is making them more inhuman instead of extreme in their humanity. It’s always this aspect of who we are on steroids.
Another example would be things like hyperfixation vs “in the zone” and obsessive compulsive behavior with not havivng your feet hanging off the end of the bed or the need to have a clean counter when handling food. Of course, in these cases, they are necessary uses of what can become extreme behaviors…so with that angle, where does it come into play that this is a useful tool?
The ability to turn off empathy is a good thing when a bear is trying to maul you. You shouldn’t be going “oh, the baby is hangry!” If your empathy gets you to jump into an enclosure with a caged animal at a zoo, then you need to turn that thing off and control your impulse. You spend your empathy elsewhere.
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The bear 
I love that, Sounds about right. It’s useful for survival, but when it gets out of hand, it can become detrimental. That’s the general rule for psychological disorders if I remember correctly.
Psychopaths seem to be born with their empathy switch mode to “off” while the average human seems to have it “on” at birth.
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