• SirDerpy@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The only people I’ve told were individually rationalized as part of them understanding the potential risks, benefits, and expectations associated with the magnitude of presence I had in their life. In general, most are better off if I don’t communicate freely, including myself.

    If someone provides an acceptable-to-me explanation of why it’d benefit society for me to tell this audience that story, then I will.

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      You could just say “I made it up because my parents starved me of attention when I was a kid”, it’s shorter

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        Nailed it. Homeboy here thinks nobody deserves accolades for doing the right thing… his own “story” is as real as Santa Claus.

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          2 months ago

          Narcissists are all pathological liars, because like you stated, they were starved of attention as children.

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      The only people I’ve told were individually rationalized as part of them understanding the potential risks, benefits, and expectations associated with the magnitude of presence I had in their life

      We’re strangers on the internet, what are we going to do? Track you down and get you arrested for a potentially embellished to fake story?

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        2 months ago

        potentially embellished to fake

        Imagine my perspective knowing such is the audience’s perception.

        Some nuance is better kept outside the digital world and individualized.