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When "You're a better person than that" becomes toxic typecasting

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I KNOW that nobody has common sense. It's not common. It's called common sense because it's meant to be used in common situations, not because it's common.

I don't have it either. We're human. But we all need a safe place to blow off steam when someone else's current form of lack of common sense or compassion triggers our own form of that lacking.
We aren't a lacking and don't "contain/include" any overwhelming lacking. It's just all of our situation. I call it a "lacking we all have" because right now I don't have a more positive way to explain it. If I tried it would go on for pages and pages.
I'm not perfect-- and if I tried to use nothing but words society deems "positive" in order to describe aggravating or even terrible situations, then I would be able to communicate even less. I wouldn't be truly communicating at all. And that would not be positive at all. It would be a disaster.
So don't put me on a pedestal expecting me to be some sort of better person than my opponent rather than empathizing with me. I talk about it because I'm at a loss, not because I'm trying to treat them like they're less whatever than me. And I'm not complaining to fucking boast.

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