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YellowBanana
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22 Dec 2012, 2:39 pm

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I've been told on numerous occasions that I seem laid back, when inside I'm anything but.


This.

I am also always told I look really well when I feel like complete crap.
And I'm told I look unwell when I feel absolutely fine ...

It's all rather odd.


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22 Dec 2012, 2:53 pm

Lol - I get that!!

NT's are actually very bad at reading emotion at times. They basically extract and model based on their own emotional reality. Its mirror neurons. They cant help it at times.



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23 Dec 2012, 2:34 pm

YellowBanana wrote:
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I've been told on numerous occasions that I seem laid back, when inside I'm anything but.


This.

I am also always told I look really well when I feel like complete crap.
And I'm told I look unwell when I feel absolutely fine ...

It's all rather odd.
Yes, it's the same for me with health issues too. The day after I had my gallbladder removed, I was lying on my hospital bed, after being really sick and bursting my stitches. The surgeon came to visit me and exclaimed that I looked absolutely fantastic, so soon after having a major operation. But, I was actually so unwell that I was kept in hospital for 5 days, instead of getting out the next day, like most other patients would (including my Mum, who was 70 when she had the same op).


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25 Dec 2012, 6:32 am

People have told me that I look emotion-less, but never that I look laid back. I think it's for the fact I'm hyperactive. They say I am hyperactive but that I look emotion-less in the same time. This is why people think I have a double-personality.


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