maladroit

Is all of this really supposed to be a description of actual people? Or what?

FYI this reads as incredulity-as-attack, when you might have instead written 'I'm surprised, because as far as I know, none of the people I've ever met think or behave like that' which would have contained the same critique but come across as 3x less dick

edit: it seems in the spirit of the thread to unroll a little more. Your first comment seemed to say something like 'I'm confused by the words you used,' which when I read it I felt good about that. But then when it was explained enough so that 'I'm confused' was no longer a... (read more)

1.4) Alex reflects on feeling judged, doesn't like it, and concludes that Bailey is "a downer".

Unrolling of referents: Alex felt it was bad that Alex felt that Bailey felt that Alex leaving out the milk was bad.

2.4) Multiple similar Scale 1 events happen Alex does something X, and ends up feeling that Bailey was "a downer" about it.

Complete unrolling of referents: Alex felt it was bad that Alex felt that Bailey felt that Alex doing X was bad, for multiple values of X.

In the first example, there's [Alex feels that Baily [feels that leaving out the milk is bad]]

Then Alex feels that that^ is bad, which probably isn't 'I feel bad about... (read more)