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Recent content by Matthias

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    Extreme social anxiety

    Overcoming social anxiety primarily takes 2 things: 1. Positive thinking - If you tell yourself you're a loser who will embarrass yourself or that others are critical and judgmental, you're going to have anxiety. If you tell yourself you're just as good as everyone else, despite being...
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    How I Was Treated Like Absolute Trash for Being an Autistic Person

    I agree with you that the way your parents treated you caused great harm and that some of the things they did were wrong. I felt is was important to address intent (why your parents treated you the way they did). Based on your description, I don't think they deliberately harmed you because they...
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    I think many NTs also struggle with social situations.

    I blame socialist propaganda, the welfare state, and a lack of morals for their greed, sloth, and lack of education. They know it's much easier to use the welfare system to steal other people's hard earned money than to work hard and earn it themselves. Socialism is built on covetousness and...
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    I think many NTs also struggle with social situations.

    I was eager to share the extensive knowledge I have of the topics being discussed and correct misinformation that I forgot the topic of this thread. I'm not sure what else I can say about the original topic other than I think most problems we have are also shared by others.
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    I think many NTs also struggle with social situations.

    Not at all. I value the truth and like to teach others. While many are unwilling to learn, there are some who want to increase their knowledge.
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    I think many NTs also struggle with social situations.

    Under capitalism, everyone, including the poor, can start a business, produce, and sell their goods and services. Examples would be a 10 year old running a lemonade stand and a homeless person starting a business shoveling driveways. Capitalism is responsible for most of the wealth of regular...
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    I think many NTs also struggle with social situations.

    Forcing individuals to charge below-market prices, meaning a price where demand vastly exceeds supply, is an artificially low price, despite it being the same as an earlier price. My point is just that these laws were passed based on emotions and, as is often the case, harmed the people the laws...
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    How I Was Treated Like Absolute Trash for Being an Autistic Person

    Based on what you wrote, I think your parents loved you and did the best they could despite some of their actions inadvertently harming you. Here's how I interpreted various aspects of your post: The time, effort, and expense of taking you to various practitioners to address your social needs...
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    I think many NTs also struggle with social situations.

    When the government forces people to sell those items at artificially low prices during emergency situations, people buy more than they need, resulting in many people ending up with nothing. When stores are allowed to raise prices to the new market rate (based on supply and demand - falsely...
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    I think many NTs also struggle with social situations.

    My post was primarily focused on setting fair laws based on sound reasoning (such as the freedom to set a fair market price when supply and demand are imbalanced) versus passing laws based on emotion (government price controls and rationing through "price gouging" laws which is inefficient and...
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    'speaking loudly'

    I agree that loud speech usually indicates an emotional disturbance/mental problem (low self-confidence, anger, too excited, agitated, etc.) and that hearing loss could be an explanation if a person is elderly.
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    I think many NTs also struggle with social situations.

    I'm not into conspiracy theories and am not easily misled by communist/socialist propaganda.
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    I think many NTs also struggle with social situations.

    Rationing is better than just keeping the price low but still leads to similar problems. When stores rationed goods during Covid, people bought the maximum amount of products they didn't want or need (such as hand sanitizer) so they could sell them on eBay for 50 times the price. While rationing...
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    I think many NTs also struggle with social situations.

    Raising prices in response to increased demand is not exploitation. It's how capitalism works and why countries that have embraced capitalism are so successful. Laws that prohibit raising prices during emergencies (falsely called "price gouging") actually harm the communities the laws were...
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    My road in life might be close to a dead end

    Self-help books can be really helpful for the kind of chronic problems you mentioned. They're available for almost every topic (depression, self-esteem, emotional intelligence, relationships, etc.) As far as women, I'm sure there are plenty of women who would be interested in a relationship...
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