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Make sure they're tied tight to your belt. You don't want them to fall off, like, 'cause, what if you've got seven keychains hanging off your belt, and you're jogging, and you're happy, but then a couple of them fall off but that's cool, you still got five, that's enough. still, then you can keep jogging, and maybe two or three more come off, and now it's getting not as much fun, and now it's not a look anymore, now you're--you got two or three, in-in-in-instead of a whole bunch, and, and people are starting to notice, 'cause if you've got a lot of keychains hanging off your belt, people are gonna be like, "Wow, that's a lot of keychains," but if you've only got two, people are gonna be like, "Hey, what's with the keychains?" or, or, like, if you only have one, people are gonna come up and say, "You know, you got a keychain hanging off your belt," like, like, they're, they're gonna think maybe you didn't know, or maybe it was an accident or something. And, and, and, and people are gonna say, "Hey, how come you've got a keychain hanging off your belt?" And, and what are you gonna say? "Well, I left the house with seven but six of them fell off"? People are gonna think you're an idiot. You see, you've gotta be able to demonstrate that what you're doing is intentional, otherwise people will think you don't know what you're doing. You've, you've gotta appear in the know. You've gotta radiate an aura of control. If, if you only have one keychain, next thing people are gonna notice that your socks don't match or that you're wearing plaids and stripes or something, and nobody's gonna take you seriously

Yeah, bullying at school works too.

Yeah I'm like this and it's not really a trauma thing for me. I'm just autistic and ADHD which basically means I take advice too seriously and I have a bad habit of getting into someone's field of view or in their way by accident. As a result of being advised to be less visible every time I got in someone's view, I accidentally became invisible. It's something I've been working on lately actually and I've noticed I scare people less often since I started thinking about it

And one day when we flee
From our sweet misery
And shed our human costumes then
Revealing somewhat smaller men
Go off to work and then back again

You don't need to assume that it isn't a tragic familial background, either. Or any other sort of trauma/condition which would push one to close off. Throwing the "soulless" label aroud willy-nilly is just an extension of abusing the "narcissist" moniker. It prohibits any nuance and facilitates unjustified suspicion.

Yes, there are sociopaths who can be considered soulless. But just because one is odd does not intrinsically mean one is soulless. There's a plethora of other potential reasons.

Plus, don't forget, oddity is in the eye of the beholder in the first place. My odd may be completely different than your odd.

I hate fartin and wastin' it, I'd rather burp and be tastin' it!

while you rip you can let out a sigh and say "ugghhh god yea" so again they know What to expect

Yeah, you're only allowed one soul.