the Normal Person* feel the need to live to your expectation of them.

The trouble with criticizing the Normal Person* is that instead of your critique having a corrective result, they take it as an instruction. “One day, you’re going to kill somebody and wind up in jail, kid!” said to the Normal Person* is like an order. They may not WANT TO kill anybody, but they don’t want to make their grandmother a liar, so they’ll eventually wind up killing somebody and wind up in jail. It is good for the Normal Person* to know that when people say things like this, they want it to be taken as a WARNING; if you keep doing this, the thing you don’t want to happen will happen… If they call you a racist or anything negative, they want you to STOP being a racist. They want their words to have a corrective power, not a predictive power.

Whenever you’re raising the Normal Person* Thinking child, remember to paint a positive picture of their future, not a negative one. Otherwise, they’ll live up to your negative view of them. It’s hard even for a Savants* to live more positively than their parents expect them to, but they have some of that ability to go against their parents’ worst (and best) expectations. The Normal Person* Thinking children will basically copy/paste their parents’ expectations and live up to them, so make sure they’re positive. The Cat Thinking children will walk their own way, even if their the Normal Person* Thinking parents will make it hard for them – even if they thrive higher than their parents expect them to.

Never say stuff like “the police are racist” because about 50% of them are the Normal Person* who don’t want to make a liar out of you. The more they respect you, the more they want to protect YOUR reputation as a truth-teller. They don’t want to be responsible for people thinking you’re an alarmist. Therefore, they’ll make sure you have a fight in your hands, even if they, in their love and respect for you, have to play the role of the bad guy to make you look good.

This is not what the Savants* want the Normal Person* to do. We assume NOBODY wants to live with a negative label, and that to avoid having it, we’d change our behavior to the positive. There are some negative labels well worth living with, however (like a faggot or, say, nigger, or a slut), but that’s another post.

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