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I used to think about whether I was more of a tortoise or a snail. Someone told me once that I might be a nautilus. But now I know I’m a pillbug, because I can relate to curling up and waiting for the big scary thing to go away.

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 Post I just saw on Twitter: “A lot of skeptical-type people are weirdly better at detecting when facts are being used misleadingly than they are at asking ‘wait, is this just completely made up?’”

I think this is supposed to be some kind of dunk, like “look at how silly those skeptic people are!” And as someone who is much, much worse at identifying lies than at identifying misleading use of truths, that honestly pisses me off. I think my difficulty recognizing lies is related to my inability to read facial expressions, and my problems with remembering visual information, and all the other stuff brains are supposed to do that mine can’t. It’s not some kind of character flaw that I could easily fix by just trying harder!