Signs Of Amygdala Dysfunction – Inability To Differentiate

Pelosi’s amygdala is reeling under the God-Emperor:

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) during an interview early Sunday accidentally referred to President Trump as former President George W. Bush.

After the mistake on ABC’s “This Week,” Pelosi quickly corrected herself.

“I’m so sorry, President Bush,” Pelosi said. “I never thought I would pray for the day that you were president again.”

Meanwhile, a female Professor can not differentiate a normal white male college student from the male who raped her.

As I went over his paper, I realized that I was reading a paper that sounded word for word like something the man who raped me would say. And not only did this sound like something my rapist would say, this student fit the same demographic profile as him: white, college male, between the ages of 18 and 22.

I got up from my desk and went for a walk. I could not concentrate. I had plans to read a book later that afternoon, which were shattered by being thrown back into a pit of traumatic, fragmented memories by this student’s paper. I was furious at the fact that, as an instructor, I was expected to take his paper seriously, and scared of what he might do if he did not like his grade. Although I knew it was unlikely that this student would literally try to rape me, his words felt so familiar that I began having trouble distinguishing him from the man that did. Their words were so frighteningly similar that the rational-instructor side of my brain could not overpower the trauma-survivor side.

My favorite narcissist Bob was like this. He would actually routinely call one person by another person’s name, with no clue he was doing it. These mistakes always involved confusing people which his mind had grouped similarly, and the mistakes seemed to reveal cubbyholes for personalities he had created for people he knew in his youth. The younger guy he didn’t like, the older authority figure he feared, the scary male he wanted to placate, the less intelligent guy he would manipulate, the female he hated, and so on. Everybody got thrown in their cubbyhole, and then he would absent-mindedly pull out names at random when he met them.

Sometimes this can be an early slip people will make that will betray amygdala dysfunction, since it is a sign that the person’s brain is trying to conserve resources by grouping similar people together, rather than create a unique mental “cubbyhole” for each person they know. I cannot see this today without immediately being put on guard for the fact that the person I am talking to may have serious amygdala problems, and be a real whacko under their façade.

It can also be a sign you may end up getting blamed for perceived sins of someone else, if you should happen to fall into the cubbyhole of someone who they had a bad relationship with in the past. I’ve sometimes wondered if such people only create cubbyholes for those they don’t like, since it requires the hostility to trigger the amygdala, focus the mind, and cement the creation of a cubbyhole in the first place.

Tell everyone about r/K Theory, because amygdala dysfunction is worth watching out for