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Yesterday I over heard a debate over whether "only children are weird" or not.
Sigmund Freud blows me away. I love reading his studies, and although this particular subject doesn't take a genius to decipher, every time I read it, I still find it interesting and true:
*Only children must work to win friends because family life does not provide them.
*Self-sufficiency can have its benefits, but it can also mean that only children are inherently alone as their personalities develop
*Only children must develop their personalities in unique environmental situations. Their environments force them to act against their natural tendencies in order to function normally. These "only-verts" then must always at times be acting in ways against their natural tendencies.
*This struggle helps explain some of the common characteristics that emerge among only children, such as the tendency to not participate in many activities but lead in the ones in which they do participate or learn to be comfortable being "loners" by learning to retreat within themselves.
*Perhaps because the emotional difficulties that only children are prone to have such as excessive sensitivity, hypochondria, or trouble expressing anger
Psychology is the only academic class I've ever really been passionate about. I wish there were practical jobs out there that didn't require moving across country or making less than 40 grand. :( My aspirations suck.
...and I don't think I'm weird
Sigmund Freud blows me away. I love reading his studies, and although this particular subject doesn't take a genius to decipher, every time I read it, I still find it interesting and true:
*Only children must work to win friends because family life does not provide them.
*Self-sufficiency can have its benefits, but it can also mean that only children are inherently alone as their personalities develop
*Only children must develop their personalities in unique environmental situations. Their environments force them to act against their natural tendencies in order to function normally. These "only-verts" then must always at times be acting in ways against their natural tendencies.
*This struggle helps explain some of the common characteristics that emerge among only children, such as the tendency to not participate in many activities but lead in the ones in which they do participate or learn to be comfortable being "loners" by learning to retreat within themselves.
*Perhaps because the emotional difficulties that only children are prone to have such as excessive sensitivity, hypochondria, or trouble expressing anger
Psychology is the only academic class I've ever really been passionate about. I wish there were practical jobs out there that didn't require moving across country or making less than 40 grand. :( My aspirations suck.
...and I don't think I'm weird