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let's write a book about feelings

  • Joshua Tuscan: although, i'm reading a book about happiness right now
  • Joshua Tuscan: and last night there was a part about people that actually have a condition where they can't register what they are feeling
  • Joshua Tuscan: like if you ask them, what do you feel emotionally right now, they can't tell you
  • Joshua Tuscan: they just say i don't know
  • Eric Scott: ugh
  • Joshua Tuscan: where as other people can tell you in 5 descriptive paragraphs about one emotion they are feeling at any given second
  • Eric Scott: i'm a freaking open book all the time. i always know what i'm feeling and i always will share it. it's like i'm a poker player with every tell there ever was
  • Joshua Tuscan: me too
  • Joshua Tuscan: i always know exactly what i'm feeling
  • Eric Scott: me too, and i'll tell you why- i analyze the hell out of everything
  • Joshua Tuscan: ditto
  • Joshua Tuscan: i can think about one thing for a week straight
  • Eric Scott: oh yeah, i can let things completely consume me
  • Joshua Tuscan: 2 and a half straight hours
  • Eric Scott: that's exactly what i let happen
  • Eric Scott: i wonder if there's a name in the DSM for people like you and i
  • Eric Scott: like i wonder if it's been a named condition
  • Joshua Tuscan: if there is, i'd like to know it
  • Joshua Tuscan: Severe Over-feeling Syndrome
  • Eric Scott: haha, the thing is, it's not like i'm sensitive. like people can try to hurt me and i can write it off, although when people who are close to me say things that may be vindictive or may just be the truth, it can really hurt
  • Joshua Tuscan: precisely
  • Joshua Tuscan: people can talk shit at me all day
  • Joshua Tuscan: i dont' give a fuck
  • Joshua Tuscan: i'll give it right back and worse
  • Joshua Tuscan: but if i really care about you
  • Joshua Tuscan: and i know you are telling the truth
  • Joshua Tuscan: you can crush me
  • Eric Scott: yes
  • Joshua Tuscan: i'll collapse trying to figure it out and fix it or make it right or get restitution
  • Eric Scott: exactly