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#2223

like if they want to keep it secret how do they explain stuff like this :sob:

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#2224

Does anybody else get stuff like this like do you get weird mental frameworks of looking at hte world that aren’t true but feel true. Strange magical thinking. I know many young children get this but did it go away as you got older

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#2225

It worked for a lot of things. Like dreams or premonitions that some part of me was convinced were real even though I knew they weren’t. When I had alts on the sites I was on it felt like they were real people with their own lives and I didn’t know everything they knew (and vice versa) even though obviously it was me and I made it all up.

Nowadays a common one I get is that, like, “bitterness” (ultradark chocolate and waking up earlymorning and unsweetened coffee and going out inhte cold and such) makes me feel like I’m Sharper and More Alert even though these things actually in practice should not and the results I see in practice indicate that they’re not actually making me more alert.

Obviously I know per Normal People Rules either these are signs of being insane or just being superstitious, many people believe superstitions, but I never actually believe any of this shit. Which is why it’s strange to me. Like such a large distinction between what I feel and what I know

#2226

nope

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#2227

Normal people can’t see dementors, so the purpose was to rig Harry into using his wand for protection to thereby drag him into court.

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#2228

They can alter people’s memories

#2229

that being said allegedly a 100% cure for hiccups is telling yourself that “hiccups aren’t real, so I don’t have hiccups” and believing it

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#2230

Damn

#2231

mmmm

#2232

VERY funny. This should work for every illness

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#2233

I’ve tried to “ehlers-danlos syndrome isn’t real, so I don’t have ehlers-danlos syndrome” myself and it works ofr like 1 or 2 days and then it EXTREMELY stops working

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#2234

tbf if your hiccups last 1-2 days I don’t suspect this would work either and you should probably see a medical professional

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#2235

I’m not sure I entirely get what you’re talking about?
But I am having to, like, reeavaluate a lot of shit that’s just habit and normal for me and go “wait, healthy people don’t think like that”
Idt that’s exactly the same but

#2236

diagnose you as a werefish or some shit

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#2237

Yeah I don’t think that’s the same

#2238

tl;dr hiccups are remnants of when we used to have gills that are locked away in a part of the brain that evolved before consciousness really did so you just need to get yourself out of fish mode

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#2239

My friend asks me why I’ve been hiccuping so much and I apologise and say “must be that time of the month again”. I excuse myself to go to the bathroom, shove paper towels in the sink drain, turn the faucet on, and turn into a fish

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#2240

But I get the whole “having to restructure how you think about the world” thing and the whole “having to try to explain this thing that you only have a gut understanding of or something that you realize isn’t right but you need to figure out Why you do that anyways and What the right thing is”

#2241

Friend sits at the table alone on their phone googling “menstrual hiccups???”

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#2242

Doesn’t Dudley get affected by them though?

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