By Patricia Lefave, Monophrenic
Why would people, including some we don’t know, who don’t know us, talk about us disparagingly, right in front of us like we aren’t really there?
Well the belief from the ‘normal’ others’ perspective seems to go something like this:
It is OK if we talk about her right in front of her because she is stupid and/or crazy and will not understand what we are talking about anyway. At times, oblivious to their own irrationality, they even SAY that while I am standing there looking at them.
We ‘whack jobs’ often think they are doing it on purpose because we don’t believe it is possible for people to be so stupid as to be that unaware of themselves, or us.
I just got a little fridge magnet to remind me of this groupthink routine which says,
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
I will try to lower my expectations so that I will not make that mistake again.
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