randomly thinking about my AP Psychology class which consisted of:
- abstruse terminology and full-page diagrams used to explain concepts like "most people like having friends"
- Buzzfeed-level determination to divide humanity into a low, round, usually divisible-by-four number of Elemental Types
- in 1965 a professor told 20 undergrads he'd pay them $10 if they'd pretend to be Nazis for 10 minutes, and SOME SAID YES!!! so now we know how the Nazis happened
- have u tried reframing all ur negatives as positives? here are some unfairly easy examples of negatives. plz no negatives based in genuinely unmet material needs okay
- sexual disorders chapter a goddamn mess of "if societal discrimination causes 'significant impairment or distress' then it means you're the one with the disorder" logic. also zero concept that people can practice fetishes consensually
- the one thing I learned that really was new, true, and useful, but god am I mad about it: there is no such thing as catharsis. you can't get anger "out of your system" by expressing it, it's more like a muscle that only gets stronger with exercise. which is super shitty because a lot of the things that make me angry aren't things that I should "just let go" they're actual problems in the world. but the only options are to find ways to calm myself anyway or to be so furious so often that it damages my health. no way to righteously scream myself into serenity. but there should be dammit.
