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Jun. 13th, 2019 04:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feotakahari 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!
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!
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Date: 2019-06-27 11:34 pm (UTC)I always passed it up to my kind of mental illness, which means my grip on reality isn't as good as other folks, but I definitely know that even when someone obviously, blatantly lies to my face and I have the hard numbers to prove it, I still find myself going, "that can't be right... surely they wouldn't... would they?" It's really disorienting, for me anyway!