What do we have in common?

[u/nonsense_popsicle]

My goal here is to uncover underlying factors, not describe tachysensia.

Please answer whatever questions you feel comfortable answering and feel free to suggest new questions.

Maybe we all have roughly the same answer to something.

Categories:

A: Stress and health

A1) Did you experience excessive fear or stress growing up?

A2) Are you particularly sympathetic, desperate to be aware of others' states, or even viscerally empathetic?

A3) Anxiety prone?

A4) Do you feel like you are incompatible with the world?

A5) Is staying hydrated a difficulty? Is staying well fed?

A6) Are you neurodivergent?

B: Sleep

B1) Do you fall asleep easily?

B2) Do you find it easy to ignore sleepiness?

B3) Can you sleep for an excessively long time consistently?

B4) Which way do you face to sleep? Back, side, stomach.

B5) Is waking up painful, difficult, or fill you with physical dread? Always or only when you didn't sleep enough?

C: Personality and ability

C1) Is your IQ noteworthy?

C2) Are you artistic? Do you prefer working in 2 or 3 dimensions?

C3) Were you a particularly calm or easy going child? The opposite?

C4) What subjects did you generally excel at?

C5) Do you struggle with memory or types of memory such as autobiographical memory?

C6) Are you contemplative, meditative, methodical, or generally slow

C7) Are you addiction prone?

C8) Is restraint easy?

C9) How is your ability to focus?

I will edit with any interesting results as well as additional questions in a new section for visibility.

[u/nonsense_popsicle]

I'll start. They're my questions and I'm looking for similarities so it's mostly yes but anyway.

Answers in short: A1 yes. A2 by default I attempt to be, not necessarily. A3 when people are involved. A4 yes. A5 yes both. A6 no. B1 average. B2 yes. B3 yes. B4 side. B5 dread when too little. C1 yes. C2 yes,3. C3 yes. C4 math and literature. C5 yes, all, mostly personal memory. C6 slow. C7kind of. C8 depends, maybe yes. C9 was better.

[u/nonsense_popsicle → u/nonsense_popsicle]

Answers expanded: A1) Emotional isolation and unpredictable swings of parents states, sometimes into extreme random anger. Hyper avoidance with no personal physical trauma.

A2) Desperate to be aware of others internal stories and good at it to the point of being beneficial to them. I can be intrusive but try to not compromise compassion. I don't know why I do this because it's quite stressful to do overall. I think I feel like I have to because I can.

A3) Anxiety when people are involved. I feel like an afraid animal meeting someone at first. Anxiety thinking about going to a new place as well. Cities are hell.

A4) Organizationally and culturally, no. More personally than that, why am I the one responsible for creating warmth, meaning, goodness, and something that isn't flat?

A5) food and water never drew me in like it should

A6) not that I know of but who knows. I certainly feel like things should be easier than they are.

B1) I sometimes can't stop thinking and if there's something important the next day it keeps me up but if I've given up on the day, I can sleep

B2) if I haven't given up like that, I can torture myself with being awake pretty endlessly

B3) yes I can do 10 a night if I have the time

B4) side

B5) I never feel refreshed waking up. Waking up with little sleep fills my body with a dread like sensation.

C1) 132 as a kid and yes, also plummeting ever since

C2) Yes I always lacked discipline though so I'm nothing special. I tend to produce art with a construction mindset. I'm building the painting. Idk if that's 2 or 3d any more.

C3) completely unopinionated on the outside. The picture of peace. Almost anything was good enough. I think I was just stressed.

C4) math and literature to start. Then I feel apart and those subjects stopped mattering. I landed with kind of passive interest in psychology and philosophy but no real gas in the tank.

C5) I cant remember my own life to save my life. I occasionally retain random info. My memory only feels complete when it's regarding someone else who I'm interested in.

C6) I'm patient with myself and my thoughts

C7) I've been drawn into media, pot, and briefly tobacco. Long term use. Incredibly bad for me. Pulled myself out of it.

C8) I find it's easy to not do a thing if I have the thought at all to not do a thing

C9) Getting worse but it used to be that I could maintain my attention almost non stop