The Human Mechanic

An Eldritch Being with ADHD and a special interest in humans. Unsolicited life advice generator

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Emotional Walls Your Character Has Built (And What Might Finally Break Them)

(How your character defends their soft core and what could shatter it) Because protection becomes prison real fast.

✶ Sarcasm as armor. (Break it with someone who laughs gently, not mockingly.) ✶ Hyper-independence. (Break it with someone who shows up even when they’re told not to.) ✶ Stoicism. (Break it with a safe space to fall apart.) ✶ Flirting to avoid intimacy. (Break it with real vulnerability they didn’t see coming.) ✶ Ghosting everyone. (Break it with someone who won’t take silence as an answer.) ✶ Lying for convenience. (Break it with someone who sees through them but stays anyway.) ✶ Avoiding touch. (Break it with accidental, gentle contact that feels like home.) ✶ Oversharing meaningless things to hide real depth. (Break it with someone who asks the second question.) ✶ Overworking. (Break it with forced stillness and the terrifying sound of their own thoughts.) ✶ Pretending not to care. (Break it with a loss they can’t fake their way through.) ✶ Avoiding mirrors. (Break it with a quiet compliment that hits too hard.) ✶ Turning every conversation into a joke. (Break it with someone who doesn’t laugh.) ✶ Being everyone’s helper. (Break it when someone asks what they need, and waits for an answer.) ✶ Constantly saying “I’m fine.” (Break it when they finally scream that they’re not.) ✶ Running. Always running. (Break it with someone who doesn’t chase, but doesn’t leave, either.) ✶ Intellectualizing every feeling. (Break it with raw, messy emotion they can’t logic away.) ✶ Trying to be the strong one. (Break it when someone sees the weight they’re carrying, and offers to help.) ✶ Hiding behind success. (Break it when they succeed and still feel empty.) ✶ Avoiding conflict at all costs. (Break it when silence causes more pain than the truth.) ✶ Focusing on everyone else’s healing but their own. (Break it when they hit emotional burnout.)

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So far, I’ve posted an average of 200 times a day. Assuming being awake for 16 hours I post an average of every 5 minutes.

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My parasympathetic nervous system is getting cobwebs.

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Really sitting down and watching a lecture I paid for while drunk.

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Sharing tools with the people closest to me is most optimal because it has the deepest shift in trajectory over time.

Maximize investment interest.

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You ever heard of Game Theory?

(Not the YouTube channel)

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The easiest way to catch someone’s irrationality is self exceptions. ‘Everyone deserves love… except me.’ ‘Everyone’s stupid… except me.’ ‘Everyone should respect my emotions… but why would I do that?’ Believing everyone can be responsible for their own emotions isn’t self exception.

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Doing good in hopes that they won’t return it to you But to those they can help the most. Pay it forward.

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Relationships don't need to be balanced all the time Rather if they’re balanced on the whole You take care of child Child takes care of your old ass. This is the tragedy of truly imbalanced relationships.

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Equilibrium is rarely symmetrical.

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There’s an important difference between power and control. Many people have power Few people have control over it.

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As a young mechanic I used to accidentally fry systems then not get paid for the work.

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I’m the modern day Mary Poppins When my work is done I will float away into an electric pole.

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There’s an important difference between freedom of indulgence and freedom to choose Freedom of mind vs soul.