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When did someone last tell you what you were feeling, and get it wrong?
Confidence about another person's mind can exceed the evidence available to an observer.
Your answer
A little context
You say you're fine, and a friend says, gently, that you are clearly angry. You weren't angry. You are now. It is hard to argue about your own feelings with someone who has decided they know them better.
Nearby questions
- The bundle that calls itself ILook for the part of you that watches your thoughts. If you cannot catch it, was it ever there?
- What do you owe the child you used to be?Your body, your memories and your values have all changed since then. Some of that child's hopes are still waiting on you.
- What makes you you?A perfect copy of you could wake up tomorrow with your memories, your habits and your love for your people, certain that it is you.
- Would you want to remember everything?Forgetting can feel like a loss of truth or a condition of becoming someone new.
- What flaw would you refuse to have fixed?What looks like damage from the outside may be carrying part of a person's identity.
