When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive
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Destroy them anally, you mean.
probably why smug lolis piss everybody off
That explains that one guy in that old Deviantart Appreciation Station thread.
I hate to be that guy but don't you mean integer overflow
Reminds me, when I was a kid, around 11, I had a small bag of M&Ms on a roadtrip I absolutely begged my parents for.
Not long after we got back in the truck and headed down the highway again, I had this extreme impulse to throw the bag out the window.
And I did. Hit the pavement and exploded.
I really wanted those M&Ms, I cried immediately and I had no idea why I did that. Parents got pissed and demanded to know the reason and I seriously couldn't even begin to answer them.
It makes me think now, you know how toddlers frequently do whatever their impulses tell them to do, no matter how dangerous or destructive it is? Even, throwing toys they love out of car windows? And when asked why they did it, they have no idea?
I feel like not everyone grows out of having those, maybe only a small handful of people do. The only thing that changes is our common sense to not act on those weird as fuck impulses.
Intrusive thoughts start at a very young age and don't really change form or go away.
Not going to lie, I thought from the title it was going to be aggression along the lines of "I want to protect it" and not a real life version of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3B5bfhtxUQ
when i see something too cute i get the urge to pat it
Don't cats do this as well, they like do all cuddly stuff if you scratch them then go mental lol.
Cute = Helpless = confirm by asserting aggression and seeing them react to it
tis' my unfounded theory
this is why i beat my wife
This almost makes too much sense.
It's probably vestigial.
this is why im a lurker
to protect you people
its true, this is the same thing i felt seeing a kitten for the first time when i was 5.
I feel like this is probably like the feeling of walking off a cliff phenomenon where it's actually you instinctively being concerned about the cliff which gives you the sensation of being in danger of falling off which somehow tricks your brain into thinking that you had the urge to fall off in the first place.
The human brain is weird as shit.
Anime haters confirmed to be the biggest tsundere of all?
Jokes aside, I feel like it might be an "emergency measure" insinct, like it makes you avoid making yourself too vulnerable.
Take it like this: Krug walks through the forest hunting, and is hungry. He sees a baby rabbit, and at first has the instinctive "d'aww" response. However, if he just leaves it alone, he might not find anything edible and starve to death. So, a follow-up instinct kicks in where he's urged to, well, you know.
But that's just a theory I came up with at 5AM, and I'm no more qualified to assess these things than anybody else here.
It's a ring buffer
I get this in a "want to hug my cat so tight like a teddy bear I might hurt him" way but apart from that I'm not sure about the whole punching and eating thing.
I had a similar urge as a kid with my action figures, I never did it but it freaked me the fuck out as a child and I grew up questioning if I was insane/retarded and wondered if I should have been worried about my state of mind that I thought to do it in the first place.
take developmental psych
I will straight up fist fight Bambi.
I will clob the ever-living shit out of that grass-eating crank stank.
I get those thoughts but they go away if I actively think about petting, hugging or snuggling those cute animals.
it's mostly about repeated exposure
i.e. when I played deltarune I was really into ralsei and hugged him ingame and shit
now that the internet's full of him I just wanna kick his teeth in for some reason
ok humans keep saying it's normal
fucking nutters
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