I also experience the ability to detect abusive people and people with various mental health struggles, especially people who have suffered trauma like me. It's actually very frustrating because others don't listen to me when I say someone is dangerous until they've seen me be right a few times. And it interferes with my enjoyment of a lot of media because I get distracted by the fact that I can tell someone is an asshole and that I can tell this other person is dealing with childhood trauma and this one is horribly anxious and trying to hide it... A lot of comedians and internet personalities are deeply troubled.
It honestly makes me really self-conscious because I assume that people can read me as well as I read them, and that they can see clearly that I'm faking being a non-traumatized and confident person. I also took up tarot cards as a hobby partially because this whole thing is basically just unconscious cold-reading, and it's a good vehicle for telling people about what I see in them without it being weird or them getting worried that everyone can see their issues.
Similarly, I get an instinct certain people are bad news and should be avoided, and I instantly want to bully and insult them. I avoid doing so most of the time, but every time I've gotten that feeling I should bully them they turn out to be bad people worth avoiding. I've been told I "know exactly who to be a dick to".
I also experience the ability to detect abusive people and people with various mental health struggles, especially people who have suffered trauma like me. It's actually very frustrating because others don't listen to me when I say someone is dangerous until they've seen me be right a few times. And it interferes with my enjoyment of a lot of media because I get distracted by the fact that I can tell someone is an asshole and that I can tell this other person is dealing with childhood trauma and this one is horribly anxious and trying to hide it... A lot of comedians and internet personalities are deeply troubled.
It honestly makes me really self-conscious because I assume that people can read me as well as I read them, and that they can see clearly that I'm faking being a non-traumatized and confident person. I also took up tarot cards as a hobby partially because this whole thing is basically just unconscious cold-reading, and it's a good vehicle for telling people about what I see in them without it being weird or them getting worried that everyone can see their issues.
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Similarly, I get an instinct certain people are bad news and should be avoided, and I instantly want to bully and insult them. I avoid doing so most of the time, but every time I've gotten that feeling I should bully them they turn out to be bad people worth avoiding. I've been told I "know exactly who to be a dick to".