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What is the worst/best advice you’ve been given

"Don't sweat the small stuff."

According to the branch of mathematics that deals with complex interactions, "in complex non linear systems, the end result is highly dependent on initial conditions."

This is commonly known as "the butterfly effect" - that events so tiny as to be completely unnoticeable have, ultimately, an enormous effect on future events.

Think of all those time travel science fiction movies where changing some tiny event radically rewrites history.

Always remember that the small stuff is the only stuff that a person can actually control, and, ultimately, the small stuff is what causes the big stuff.
 
"Relax everything will be just fine" but it wasn't. The advice I seem to get when I start asking questions to an upcoming unknown situation. Inevitably I get that advice, I just am seeking clarification so that I can be prepared and know what to expect in a new situation. I do not like going into things blindly. How neurotypicals seem to just wing and and "relax because everything will be fine" is beyond me. Then again I think these are the same folks that also have no inner monologue, which I still don't understand how that is even possible.
 
People like me can't have female friends.
Heard it last year from an ex therapist.
It made me the RSD hating wreck I am to this day.
 

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