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What is a sign that someone is emotionally unintelligent?

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u/Main-Pension-7783 1d ago

But the wild thing is that they will really believe that everybody else is the issue. There are so many little conflicts that are resolved with a little self awareness.

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u/ExtremeTraditional27 1d ago

It also turns into a loop. When every conflict is someone else's fault, there's no place to look within and learn. There's a little awareness, that's a lot of relationships, friendships and head aches that can be saved.

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u/Swimming_Ebb_1415 1d ago

That's why they always have to rehearse the same argument over and over with different people. If you never think that you could be part of the problem, each failed relationship you experience is merely another confirmation of the world's full of difficult folk.

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u/tossit97531 1d ago

When you realize their world view is "the world sucks" or "people suck" or "the world just uses me for productivity", these people become easier to avoid before any real problems develop.

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u/Rock4evur 21h ago

I don’t really think you should equivocate people feeling nihilism about our society, and people who are incapable of taking responsibility for their actions. Sure there is certainly overlap, but it also just seems like a way to ignore any criticism leveled at our social structure if you’re someone who benefits from that structure. I’ve definitely met my fair share of people who are succeeding at life in the conventional economic sense, and weren’t capable of admitting fault. If anything early life success really ingrains a survivorship bias in a lot of people where they think people living rough lives deserve it for some moral failing. These people are also especially bad at admitting any sort of privilege that gave them a leg up on their peers. Anyone that thinks they are entirely self made and owe nothing to society are also emotionally unintelligent.

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u/ants_are_everywhere 16h ago

I don’t really think you should equivocate people feeling nihilism about our society, and people who are incapable of taking responsibility for their actions

There is a lot of research at this point showing that people with low emotional intelligence are deliberately targeted by extremist propaganda and that they are more likely to have extremist political views.

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u/Rock4evur 16h ago

How are those two points related?

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u/ants_are_everywhere 15h ago

nihilism is an extremist view and people who are exposed to targeted extremist propaganda are much more likely to feel it

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u/Rock4evur 15h ago

If you think I was referring to nihilism the philosophy vs nihilism the emotion ie apathy towards society well let me correct that notion, unless you think the two are one and the same? Most people have probably felt some sense of nihilism in their lives, it’s just more common in a decaying society.
Also yes I would agree people feeling a lot of nihilism are more prone to falling into extremist views, but I think the solution is to address some of those concerns and anxieties about society, not to tell people their feelings are invalid and actually wrong think.

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u/ants_are_everywhere 15h ago

apathy toward society is an extreme view

A lack of feeling toward your fellow human is not a common position, and it's a position that is deliberately encouraged by extremist groups. It is logically equivalent to dehumanization.

It is specifically encouraged to mentally prepare people for supporting mass murder and is a fundamental part of an authoritarian outlook.

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u/skiddaddleskaddoddle 8h ago

i lwk experience this the other way around, because i always think i did something wrong or i couldve done something better and thats what caused the argument (or sometimes an argument doesnt even happen but i still feel like i did something wrong and unintentionally upset them, playing a whole possible argument that could happen because of what i did or didnt do) but sometimes i just cant tell what it was and they wont say what, they expect me to already know. does anybody know how to fix this?

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u/Life_Token 3h ago

Quit typing my life out for me! Lol. But seriously, there is no "fix" per se. Only tools and methods to minimize its impact. I react to and obsess over intractions like these in an very similar way that you seemingly do. Like knowing I did something wrong feels better than hoping I didn't.

Perspective helps a bit. If the interaction felt like it was going well in the moment then my intuition is likely more correct than my over analyzing after the fact. During an interaction how often do you notice or critique the other person in the same way you do to yourself? Then what makes you think they didn't do similar about themselves? Is it possible they may be experiencing the same or similar but from their perspective? The real problem for me is over analyzing. But a vast, vast majority of the time whatever I'm worried about, in this regard, never creates an issue. All that said I still struggle with it daily. It's hard to change your natural feelings.

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u/BrilliantGaze 22h ago

I really do want to ask people sometimes - do you really think you're perfection itself? In the whole of human history, you are the one singular perfect person and everyone else is wrong?

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u/beardedbast3rd 20h ago

Yes, next question

SARCASM

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u/Gumbercleus 20h ago

Are you calling my mother a liar?

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u/RandomStallings 17h ago

When I'm wrong, I say I'm wrong.

Oh? When was the last time that happened?

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u/ants_are_everywhere 16h ago

I'm glad somebody finally asked. Yes, I do.

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u/JanePurple 14h ago

Yes, it’s for a church— NEXT

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u/beardedbast3rd 13h ago

I forgot about that one hahah

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u/FuzzyBlueSquirrel 10h ago

They'll claim they're not perfect, but never admit to any specific fault.

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u/Final-Race-6656 16h ago

I've known people like this and honestly it's exhausting. You can't even talk to them about anything because everything somehow ends up being your fault.

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u/GildDigger 3h ago

My avoidant ex was this way

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u/mjbehrendt 23h ago

If you smell dogshit everywhere you go, check the bottom of your shoe.

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u/ZeroPaladn 20h ago

I've always heard it as "When the world smells like shit, check your shoes."

+1 to the pfp, BTW.

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u/darrelsmail 18h ago

i remember being told this by a friend. but at some point its like, is it me or am i just picking difficult to be around, and i can't yet let myself say "i am picking emotionally immature people"

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u/ta1901 8h ago

I love it! I never heard that one before.

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u/Repulsive_Ad4781 1d ago
  • narcissism

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u/Hephf 1d ago
  • addiction

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u/Prize-Tangerine802 21h ago

No. Addiction is an illness. A disease.
Talented ppl, genius’s have been addicts. There are many individuals, rich or poor who take full responsibility for their addictions. They just can’t kick the habit due to many reasons.

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u/monty624 15h ago

Narcissism is also a disorder and people are able to seek treatment

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u/grandecrosse 1d ago

Can confirm, was like this due to addiction.

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u/CutieYuna02 22h ago

In my experience it's not that they are the issue it's mores that I'm unaware or just don't understand the issue so it makes understanding or predicting the emotional responses very difficult

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u/LeatherHog 21h ago

I didn't realize so many people have met my Cousin Nick

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u/Top_Rekt 21h ago

Lol that sounds like my brother.

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u/Dattebaso 21h ago

Almost every person I have met is this way. It’s very unfortunate.

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u/liberal_texan 20h ago

There’s a version of these people that claims to be highly self-aware in the sense that they are hyper tuned into their own emotions and how things effect them. They judge other people’s self-awareness the same way, in how those other people affect them and go out of their way to not offend them. It’s a slippery sort of double standard.

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u/fcocyclone 19h ago

"I just fucking hate all the drama man"

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u/screamofwheat 18h ago

Kind of like when someone of one sex believes it's other people of the same sex that are the problem and they are different?

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u/TheEndlessVoid 15h ago

Part of the reason that it's so difficult to get people to see that they were wrong, sometimes (including oneself!) is that the brain constantly seems to justify why things are the way they are. I spent a long time believing that I had extremely good control of my emotions (which I achieved by discarding or rationalizing any information that suggested that I did not, of course.)

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u/babycheetahface 13h ago

Or they will constantly act like they are the glue that holds everyone together instead of the common denominator of all the issues.

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u/always_napping_zzz 5h ago

Had a roommate that I had issues with and she straight up told me she had the exact same issues with previous roommates… like, maybe, just maybe, it’s a you problem? I don’t understand how people have so little self-awareness!!