Lol my mom and I have OCD. She’s got a bit of this type, fortunately mine is a bit more of the I really really love filing and collecting things (data hoarding) borderline autistic type.
Someone learned about intrusive thoughts.
Thinking of kids as extensions of yourself is narcissistic as fuck.
You’re not wrong. But I think that statement is supposed to illustrate the parent’s attachment to their child despite the horror show going on in their head.
Genetics hated that.
Intrusive thoughts are terrifying. It’s a testament to our collective willpower that we haven’t horrifically murdered each other.
Also, I’m really glad the phrase “intrusive thoughts” came along. It made the whole thing a lot easier to talk about.
Collective willpower? Or centuries worth of social contract? Humans are kind of just animals who can predict the future by writing down the past.
There was the concept of “devil told me to do it”
That’s just “I wanted to do it.” but dressed up in “it’s not socially acceptable to want that.”
I’ve had some pretty nasty intrusive thoughts. I’d like to believe it’s more than just social conditioning that kept them under wraps. But maybe.
I just learned their name thanks to your comment.
These urges are what the Chao garden in sonic adventure was made for.
Unless you are in psychosis and then the intrusive thoughts win 😭
The call of the void. I think?
our brains run simulations of awful situations all the time as a diagnostic self-test system. The fact that we recoil in revulsion from destructive intrusive thoughts is a sign that we are still at least nominally sane. Those who yearn for peace prepare for war. Likewise, those who care for their loved ones prepare to face terrible events that might befall them.
“why yes indeed brain, it would fucking suck if i jumped off this cliff, thank you for verifying that even if i had no plans of doing so anyways…”
That’s why I hate Ferris wheels. Every time.
I’m the guy who thinks it would be great… for 3 seconds anyway.
Shin Sekai Yori is an light novel / anime about what happens when these thoughts have power and how a society might develop to control the destructive consequences of said thoughts.
OP is like James Joyce if James Joyce grew up with rotten.com
Am I the only one who doesn’t do this?
Yes, you’re the only one in the world. The chose one. The boy who survived.
You opted to throw the baby against the wall?
One of the very few at least. Around 90% of people have these kind of thoughts from time to time.
Next pane: splat
Intrusive thoughts like that must be human nature. I doubt there is a single person who has never had a single thought about something like that.
