this sub has never been that popular

I saw your post about not diagnosing yourself anymore. Which does imply that you've tried. I don't want to guess publicly in case it bothers you. I think you have Reduced latent inhibition and/or high psychoticism. Basically, you're genetically psychopathic. I also think you're developmentally sociopathic. Your innate psychopathic nature shields you from "attachment" to sociopathic states via low conditionability. Unfortunately, this is also what makes you vulnerable to developing them in the first place. You've accumulated an extra-wide range of these states but aren't committed to any particular one. You float between them freely in proportion to the utility that you derive from them.

for a long time i was convinced i was heading towards paranoid schizophrenia

Reduced latent inhibition would explain this. Ignore the blog-driven psuedo-science garbage that equates it to genius. I suspect it's mostly just taxing. But then it probably inspires most of the awesome stuff you say. So it's sort of a toss-up.

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