DicJennAry - Words Jenn Made Up (no laughing from the 12 year olds, please)

[dolari]

Survivor Spiral: The act of having traits society shuns, and finding solace in others with different traits that society shuns. The group then learns of new traits society shuns and accepts them, while dissasociating with any others who may not accept the newly revealed traits. Lather, Rinse, Repeat. Eventually, all contact with the outside is lost and the mutual admiration society spirals tighter and tighter eventually reaching a singularity of "It's okay, we love you no matter what you carved into your sister's thigh last night, now hide under my bed, the cops are coming." Often observed in cults, sycophants, internet forums, and continually attempting to form in my EMail Inbox despite my best efforts ::plugs up another forming whirlpool::

Comments

[mirandakali.livejournal.com]

I've learned throughout the years that no matter how hard I try, I'll never fit in. The problem lies not in a desire to conform, but the lack of a medium for understanding when interacting with those around me. A friend of mine once pointed out that there are Neophiles and Neophobes...Would it be crazy to say I'm a Neophile to such an extent that I abhor the mentality of Neophobes?
The fact is I've been conditioned to explore what's different and cherish variety when I find it. I'm not strange because of who and what I am. I'm who and what I am because I'm strange.
...Normal is for cornflakes and taxes.

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

There's a difference between finding solace in others who have their own issues ("I know how you feel about being shunned by your family because your gay, I'm transsexual myself") and finding and reciprocating sympathy for things that are more than just wierd, but off the deep end, simply because you've decided the since society is wrong in shunning you, they're wrong in shunning the other person ("I know how you feel about being shunned by your family because you wiped out a small island in Micronesia because they all eat liver fried, I'm transsexual myself").

Finding a sympathetic ear isn't the problem. It's when it turns into a spiral of "I'm okay, you're okay no matter what you do because we know society is wrong in all of it's morals" where the Survivor Spiral is.

[amw.livejournal.com]

Hehehe. Good word. I'm gonna use it. It's like echo chamber, but better.

I think a lot of "victims" spend way too much time shunning society. Society can definitely suck but really it isn't all that bad. It got us out of mud huts. I'm eating crispy fried ramen for breakfast and typing on a computer to someone on the other side of the world. That fucking rocks.

[amw.livejournal.com]

Also, interesting article popped up the other day...

http://www.samesame.com.au/news/international/1615/Closet-Is-Bad-For-Business.htm

[paradox-puree.livejournal.com]

I've seen this pattern, and it frankly scares me.

[chaoticset.livejournal.com]

Hm...last I checked, this is perfectly normal human behavior.

Which isn't to say that it's not dysfunctional...but humans are remarkably dysfunctional, as a matter of course. :D

[fragment00.livejournal.com]

I often think that it's humans inate xenophobia that caused them to survive when they should have longed died out.

RE: no laughing from the 12 year olds, please

[audaciousd.livejournal.com]

...then you should have called it the Jenncyclopedia instead. :D