TheNEET
mentally crippled by sleepoverless teen years
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The more I think about it, the more I realize sleepoverpill is even more brutal than teenlovepill. For normies sleepovers are just silly little parties no adult pays attention to, but the social implications of being excluded from sleepsovers are grave.
Sleepovers are a rite of passage. It's the first occasion to interact with other humans with little to no supervision from adults. It's a safe environment to exercise independent social development. This experience serves as a basis for future direct interactions. Without this essential data set you're in a position of great disadvantage. You can never really recover from this unless you have a sleepover-like experience later in life (which is doubtful if you've been excluded this early).
The social implications of exclusion are brutal. Sleeping is something you can only perform if you feel safe (in normal conditions). No one will risk falling asleep (sleepovers have different formulas but even these which assume staying up all night include the risk of falling asleep due to deprivation) in presence of danger. Essentially being excluded from sleepovers implies that you're perceived as dangerous and the normie route of action is excommunication: in the early stages of humanity you were forced to sleep with the members of your tribe (the invention of doors allows to split the danger zone so only your house is your immediate tribe), the only alternative is getting sent into exile and that's the implication of getting excluded from sleepovers.
Neurologically speaking, sleepovers are of course a kind of oxytocin ritual. You can easily google all the neat qualities of oxytocin, so I won't bother adding citations, but in short oxytocin is a hormone whose one of the main functions is facilitating bonding. Of course it's secreted a lot in the context of social interactions, especially direct ones, so sleepovers are a great occasion to get some. But why would you want more oxytocin (other than to bond with your friends)? It's been shown to greatly reduce the symptoms of anxiety and autism. Many of us could be low inhibit and NT if only we experienced a sleepover.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVKcRlQK2yg
Sleepovers are a rite of passage. It's the first occasion to interact with other humans with little to no supervision from adults. It's a safe environment to exercise independent social development. This experience serves as a basis for future direct interactions. Without this essential data set you're in a position of great disadvantage. You can never really recover from this unless you have a sleepover-like experience later in life (which is doubtful if you've been excluded this early).
The social implications of exclusion are brutal. Sleeping is something you can only perform if you feel safe (in normal conditions). No one will risk falling asleep (sleepovers have different formulas but even these which assume staying up all night include the risk of falling asleep due to deprivation) in presence of danger. Essentially being excluded from sleepovers implies that you're perceived as dangerous and the normie route of action is excommunication: in the early stages of humanity you were forced to sleep with the members of your tribe (the invention of doors allows to split the danger zone so only your house is your immediate tribe), the only alternative is getting sent into exile and that's the implication of getting excluded from sleepovers.
Neurologically speaking, sleepovers are of course a kind of oxytocin ritual. You can easily google all the neat qualities of oxytocin, so I won't bother adding citations, but in short oxytocin is a hormone whose one of the main functions is facilitating bonding. Of course it's secreted a lot in the context of social interactions, especially direct ones, so sleepovers are a great occasion to get some. But why would you want more oxytocin (other than to bond with your friends)? It's been shown to greatly reduce the symptoms of anxiety and autism. Many of us could be low inhibit and NT if only we experienced a sleepover.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVKcRlQK2yg