I love the conspiracy lady who tells everyone that Bill Gates wants you to get vaccinated because he wants you to eat the meat grown in a Peach tree dish
I just had a conversation with my mom where she brought up the spoon thing when I complained I’m just here free IT guy. I told her “yeah, but i fucking learned. That either means I’m way smarter than you or you’re just an old dog that can’t learn new tricks”.
And? You don’t know me, my mom, or our relationship. This could have been a situation where my mom is a narcisistic horrible person, or it could have been a situation where my mom and I are giving each other a hard time and cracking jokes. Both of these make my response perfectly reasonable.
If you must know this was all in good fun. She thought my joke was funny. I frequently talk to her like this and she laughs. Litterally half an hour later she was so thankful I was such a great kid to raise among other things.
I feel like too many people take being corrected like this as a sign that I'm trying to be condescending when, to me, it's a simple courtesy I hope other people extend to me as well when I mess up.
To be fair, sometimes the timing of correcting someone can play a role. Waiting to correct a spelling error until after the main point has been discussed is usually best, otherwise it can be perceived as condescending.
Whether that was the case in OP’s message or not I cannot tell from the bit we have.
The human brain really fuckin hates being wrong. To the point it will create false memories to prove it’s right. This is a recorded psychological phenomenon.
Yep. Humans arent rational creatures. We’re rationalizing creatures. We don’t actually think critically. Instead, we just convince ourselves that we do.
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