Trego's Mountain Ear

I’ve seen this Venn diagram on several pieces of social media. It doesn’t give a comment about everything in it coming from the psychologist folks Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, so I thought I should add that. The intersection of all sets is interesting: Unable to take criticism, Lack of empathy, Manipulative, relationship difficulties. Sounds like exactly the type of people I want to have making decisions for me.

The entire post, which explains things more, is at https://x.com/JDHaltigan/status/2009849734840655980 I’m no psych, and I found this intersection between the four diagnosed personality disorders interesting. I guess I prefer the simple, layman’s analysis of “just plain nuts.”

The first time I saw the acronym LARP used, I had to look it up. Live Action Role Play. An email from Julia took me further down the path – to look at the deportation protests as a game. Forty years ago, I watched the deportation game – then it was played by two sides – the mojados and la migra. And, from what I saw, there were some informal rules that both sides followed. Of course, 40 years back, folks weren’t interfering with the immigration agents. And I doubt that there was any Live Action Role Play more serious than the Society for Creative Anachronism or the Civil War reenactors. Neither group was famed for its women being Cluster B mental cases.