Blackpill The "Monster Study" and why childhood experiences have a massive impact on one's self-image

[sirlancelot]

Great read

 

[coping gymcel]

Exactly.

Perhaps our attitudes would be better if we experienced some kind of positive reinforcement? You cannot expect someone to turn out normal when all they've come to expect is a boot stamping their face over and over again.

some guy in school stepped on my face while I was sitting on my chair and he was standing on the desk + the teacher did nothing about it..

 

[Some_Dude]

While our detractors are eager to shift the blame on us for possessing "negative attitudes" they never bother to ask themselves from whence this shift in demeanor came. After all, every child born unto this world starts of as a blank slate. No-one wakes up one day and decides "I am going to live the remainder of my life wallowing in bitterness and self-pity."

Enter, the so-called "Monster Study."

For those who this was an unethical experiment conducted at the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home by American psychologist Wendell Johnson in 1939.

Monster Study - Wikipedia

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The primary goal behind this was to determine whether or not having a stutter stems from genetic factors, of if this is simply a learned behavior. To achieve this, non-stuttering children were subjected to constant negative reinforcement by researchers, being told that they were stuttering even though they were, in fact, not.

So how does that relate to inceldom, you may ask? Well... As a result of the "Monster Study" all of the orphan children involved developed life-long mental and emotional scars, to a point where many of them ceased to speak entirely.

This sort of phenomenon is one all of us here have experience during our formative years. In my youth, the thought of being "ugly" or "retarded" never crossed my mind. In fact, I was extremely positive and generally friendly towards my peers, both male and female. However, the human mind is effectively a tree—one that can either be nurtured and allowed to grow, or be swiftly cut down before it has an opportunity to. Every hit with the axe—in this case, every cruel word and action taken against me, effectively chipped away at my soul until all that remained was what you now see before you today.

How am I at fault for despising women? I was only 11 years old when I was being "asked out" as a joke for the mere crime of existing. The very fact that someone (in this case, myself), who was raised by a single mother to be a "gentleman," turned out this way only shows just how awful the average female is.

How am I at my fault for seeing myself as ugly? That is what I've been taught my entire life. How do you propose I love myself when even before I adopted my current beliefs, not one woman has ever showed a hint of interest in me. All I've ever received was mockery and scorn.

"How do you expect to attract a girl when you're so insecure and angry?" means NOTHING when "Every path leads to failure" is one if the first lessons you've learned. Only a genuine fool would repeatedly place their hand atop a burning grill and expect a different result each time they do so.

Society now laments that I became a monster, only after it had already convinced me that I am one.

Weirdly relevant to the anime of which I just rewatched recently

 

[TaintedSpawn900]

@24K Link @proudweeb @Dick Spade @TheGrayWolf @Ryo_Hazuki

I nominate this thread for Must-Read Content. This is I feel one of the most important blackpills. Society hates us, then blames us for what they did to us.
It's all so tiresome.

So true, this is why I honestly hate the average male and oofies as much as I have a disdain for ethnic and hideous females. Those females who if you swap the gender, they would rope, are having social lives, societal and social protection and shield, and tutorial mode, while we rot; IT NEVER BEGAN

 

[TaintedSpawn900]

SO TRUE, I was always told that I was so negative and that I should be more positive, while I am literally having the 4 horsemen of inceldom

 

[ROCKZ D. XEBEC]

Middle and high school were more brutal for me.

 

[The Wolf]

I can attest to this.

I am now 29 years old. I was bullied (directly and indirectly) in school, from when I was around 11 to age 19.

You probably know about my experiences "out there." These experiences started when I was around 12 or 13.

I always had a slight stutter, but I always have also talked very hesitantly and haltingly, sometimes not being able to form words, making me seem retarded, even if it's just an extreme self-consciousness.
Still now, I often talk very haltingly, or I leave very long pauses in my speech, or I "wheeze" when I try to bring a word out.

 

[The Judge]

I can attest to this.

I am now 29 years old. I was bullied (directly and indirectly) in school, from when I was around 11 to age 19.

You probably know about my experiences "out there." These experiences started when I was around 12 or 13.

I always had a slight stutter, but I always have also talked very hesitantly and haltingly, sometimes not being able to form words, making me seem retarded, even if it's just an extreme self-consciousness.
Still now, I often talk very haltingly, or I leave very long pauses in my speech, or I "wheeze" when I try to bring a word out.

I can relate to everything you've described here. Whenever I try to speak, I sound incredibly slow and awkward.

I am sorry that you were treated that way, even at such a young age. Humans are cruel.

 

[The Wolf]

I can relate to everything you've described here. Whenever I try to speak, I sound incredibly slow and awkward.

is it with everyone or with particular groups of people? For me it's less of a problem with family although that used to be different.

I am sorry that you were treated that way, even at such a young age. Humans are cruel.

Thanks man, yeah people are cruel. Thinking about these memories hurts, how people made memes with my school picture in the 10th grade, or when I overheard mean comments about my looks from students I knew and didn't know.