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I found this post by @GeneticFilth interesting.
Yes, I actually had it right at the start and thought people just hated me because I was ugly, but nope, I had to go online and read all this cope about immersion therapy and I tried emulating people better looking than me and it just made my situation 10x worse. My anxiety and nervousness was my brain protecting me all along.
This aligns with most (but not all) of my personal experience. The psychologist profession is usually critical of inhibition, but in some cases inhibition can actually protect you from damage, not merely psychological but also social and possibly physical. Being punished for stepping out of line can happen. Being publicly humiliated can happen. In my teenage years I tried to act cool despite looking like a subhuman freak and got punished quite a few times for my lack of self-awareness.
On the other hand, there are definitely cases in which inhibition is unwarranted and low inhibition is actually more socially rewarded. The older you get, the more inhibition is unwarranted.
Yes, I actually had it right at the start and thought people just hated me because I was ugly, but nope, I had to go online and read all this cope about immersion therapy and I tried emulating people better looking than me and it just made my situation 10x worse. My anxiety and nervousness was my brain protecting me all along.
This aligns with most (but not all) of my personal experience. The psychologist profession is usually critical of inhibition, but in some cases inhibition can actually protect you from damage, not merely psychological but also social and possibly physical. Being punished for stepping out of line can happen. Being publicly humiliated can happen. In my teenage years I tried to act cool despite looking like a subhuman freak and got punished quite a few times for my lack of self-awareness.
On the other hand, there are definitely cases in which inhibition is unwarranted and low inhibition is actually more socially rewarded. The older you get, the more inhibition is unwarranted.