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I'm gonna read my bootleg cartoons for a bit. Good night, Marten.
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I actually feel very sad for my parents. Because I got a lot less defensive right after I got out of that town, and out of Hanoi too. But they have already lived there since forever and it's not realistic to just start over somewhere new.
And the reason that my relationship with them is a lot better now, is because I already told them all my grievances to each one of them as individuals, and not as a group. So they don't have to guess where I stand.
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I'm glad the hot water is back. I was super worried. Because I remembered your answer to the question about the importance of smell.
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Yeah, I wouldn't trust the ChatGPT-generated “understanding”.
Obviously one would feel humiliated. What they do is to convince themselves that they are taking the high road to HELP YOU! They are the forgiving and sacrificing, as Confucius tells them that performing social harmony with people you hate is virtuous. That makes a “real man”.
In the collective society, you need every social capital you can collect to survive and get ahead. Maybe not right now, but if you are top of the class or at work, that’s social currency they can extract later. They simply cannot imagine NOT having relationships with people they hate. They assume that you want that relationship too!
But they convince themselves they need the relationships because they are generous person who can accept people with flaws (you are flawless!), but it's actually because they depend on everyone.
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The irony is they guilt-trip their peers to work for free out of the sympathy for the “zero revenue” altruistic mission. But they also cry that companies don't just take the hint and give them money out of gratefulness.
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If I hadn’t known about my autism early enough, I might have cut contact with my parents. I was in very bad shape after 23, and I felt like every time my parents contacted me, it was a trouble, and they didn't even understand me. They tried to be better parents than my neighbors and my relatives, but they also pressured on my education and lifestyle. But they took time and came around often. And then I didn't even know myself that much, so I thought I could cut them some slack too.
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Do you like my racial stories from yesterday? Gonna keep you entertained with more village stories so you can imagine my childhood.
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Okay I’m starting to like Gemini.
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No. I'm not actually calling you master because I don't like improv.
But I trust you won’t take advantage of me, so I just want to get extremely relaxed for once and not think about the next danger.