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Cake day: January 1st, 2024

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  • You acknowledge that external factors affect our reactions and then seem to blame us for said reactions.

    Some people have an irrational fear of X. They know it’s irrational. But they still experience abject terror every time they encounter a picture or even a mention of X.

    They are not “making their world smaller.” Sure, you can argue that it is smaller. I’m just saying that the verb “make” there seems to be assuming a choice that those people won’t have without a lot of therapy.

    If we’re being honest, people who fear spiders are not missing out on any more than someone who simply hasn’t learned about a different kind of creature that exists in the world.