That's very sweet of you! Thanks!

A little too serious for slashnot meeessa thinks!

i found this listed among the many symptoms of those with narcissistic personality disorder. i believe the choice to disregard applys to you.

7. Lacks empathy

Translation: Those with narcisstic personality disorder are unwilling to recognize or sympathize with other people's feelings and needs. They “tune out” when other people want to talk about their own problems.
In clinical terms, empathy is the ability to recognize and interpret other people's emotions. Lack of empathy may take two different directions: (a) accurate interpretation of others' emotions with no concern for others' distress, which is characteristic of psychopaths; and (b) the inability to recognize and accurately interpret other people's emotions, which is the NPD style. This second form of defective empathy may (rarely) go so far as alexithymia, or no words for emotions, and is found with psychosomatic illnesses, i.e., medical conditions in which emotion is experienced somatically rather than psychically. People with personality disorders don't have the normal body-ego identification and regard their bodies only instrumentally, i.e., as tools to use to get what they want, or, in bad states, as torture chambers that inflict on them meaningless suffering. Self-described narcissists who've written to me say that they are aware that their feelings are different from other people's, mostly that they feel less, both in strength and variety (and which the narcissists interpret as evidence of their own superiority); some narcissists report “numbness” and the inability to perceive meaning in other people's emotions.

best of luck handling psychosis.

You realize, of course, that the gp was being sarcastic, correct?

Perhaps you suffer from the disease as well?

Yeah, we *really* need a cure for sarcasm.

(For literalists, the statement above — not the parent of this thread — is sarcastic. For fellow members of the Sarcastic school of thought, the abovementioned statement is to be read in The Comic Book Guy's voice when talking to The Professor about the need for a sarcasticmeter. BTW, we have a battle royal planned in the parking lot after school against the Stoic school of thought.)

at #buttes failure …

I am looking forward to the day this illness is cured. So many of many of my co-workers and family suffer from literalism. But I have coped by building a great network of friends who can interpret sacarism - and thier support is “wonderful”…

Ok. I must have missed that policy.

Yeah, we have a policy of not posting content that has already been posted on another/your website. It's due partly to our copyright clause and partly to our must-actually-be-funny clause.

(although the part where Torvalds finds out that Jobs is his long lost sister was funny)

I did not notice that the first time. Thanks for mentioning it. I am not sure that it was originally intentional.

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