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    How do you handle physical confrontation? What are some examples that have happened in your life?
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    I haven't had any instances of physical confrontation since I've been a child. I think it happen two or three times, I don't even know what was the reason for two of them. Back then it usually led to a fight.

    For the one that I do remember. We were basically having a disagreement about where to sit in class. We both wanted to sit at the same place and somehow a fight started. The teachers came and had us sit down and they said some shit, made us apologize to each other. Then we ended up becoming best friends for a while.
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    I typically avoid it but I find that if I have to confront, physical or otherwise its better to do it as quickly as possible.
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    don’t fight back and play possum , I’d rather not escalate the situation
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    I haven't really had the need for physical confrontation. There have been many times where someone would want to fight me and I would deescalate the situation. I actually don't know how I got away with it.

    I haven't really gotten mad enough to want to hit someone, my heart isn't really in it.
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    The psychologist Paul Meehl named this fallacy "the P.T. Barnum effect" because Barnum built his circus and dime museum on the principle of having something for everyone. It is also called "the Forer effect" after its discoverer, the psychologist Bertram R. Forer, who modestly dubbed it "the fallacy of personal validation".

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    For me these kinds of things happened when I was kid. I don't think I was confronted for real. We played some games or did stuff and some of it was physical, but I wouldn't say those were physical confrontations.

    There were times that I almost got into it, but then nothing happened. For example, when I had an argument with a kid in our school bus, things got heated, then I said to him go out. Then he did, I looked at him, he seemed scared,everyone was watching us, so I kicked him not too hard, not too soft, waited for him to do something, he didn't then I get in the bus, so nothing happened. We were not enemies or something like that, I don't even remember what we argued about.

    In my adulthood, I also got in these heated arguments in a way that some thing could happen, but it didn't, I think gender is important, I am less likely to be attacked. Hence in those circumstances I would prefer to argue rather than guy doing it for me.

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    I'm a lot stronger than I or other people think. I have always won any physical confrontation. I'm a Warrior. I beat this dude arm wrestling once and he hated me for it. I was able to physically fight off three bullies before and I won the fight. Evil narcissistic LSE woman once tried to goad me into physically attacking her so she could charge me with a crime but I refused because I know it's wrong to hit women and how it looks to society even if they are unhealthy narcissists. ((but I battle her in fantasy because we both wanted to fight each other lol.)) If people were bullying me too badly cuz of my big heart I could use physicality to teach them boundaries. Before I learned to develop my own greater mental boundaries- which are ofc more important.

    I use Ni + Fe to avoid a lot of unnecessary physical confrontations and pick my battles wisely but will do it when necessary.

    I'm good with fighting cuz of 1D but valued Se that can be greatly improved when I focus on it- but the thing is life is not a physical battle. Life is about Te/Fi and how you can manipulate the outside world into thinking you're some caring moral self-confident person with a lot of money when in reality you're just a self-serving cunt.

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    I didn't realize I was having a physical confrontantion. I was going up the stairs while 3 idiots spread to block my way. I thought they were retarded so I just tried to push one's arm out of my way (he was holding the stair thing). I don't remember well but I was only trying to push them out of my way. In the end they let me pass they were laughing about something. It took me multiple years later to realize they thought I had ballz or something. Another guy was stepping on my toes because I was wearing vibram finger shoes. He did that when he was passing me multiple times. I didn't feel anything and again thought he had some kind of mental disability. Later he said something along the lines that I'm too much of a pussy to fight him or say anything bad to him? He had been trying to provoke me. Even when he said that I couldn't comprehend what he's mad about or what I should be mad about for months. I've wanted to ruin their life since. Turns out they were nazi skinheads and european football fans.
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    Once in high-school, a boy, to whom I hadn't spoken one word or even noticed, struck me hard from behind while I was washing my hands; I don't remember the actual fight but I hurt him so badly that ever since, I've gone out of my way to avoid conflict. Having martial arts experience, I got part-time jobs in security at university social events but never once got into physical altercations; I was always able to verbally diffuse the tense moments and later, I became relatively good at mediation in my professional career.

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    I think it is in the posture and so on when it comes to aggressive confrontation. That's how even animals work most of the time. Blood is just a wasted resource. Prevention should be the key to actual success, IMO. Just appear bigger, stronger, whatever. Do I gather enough tension always? Probably not.
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    Tbh, I don’t understand physical confrontation. But I’m also like..5’3 and 110lbs, so it’s not like I’m that intimidating physically. I can be kinda snarky and sarcastic, but that’s about as far as I go aggression wise. I can also be blunt when I know I can get away with it but I don’t even get spiteful, just start ignoring people. Maybe it’s because I’m a 9
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    in 4th grade i ran away from this girl who wanted to beat me up at the end of every class. i don't remember why but i think it was that we had similar problems at home and there was this sense of that, and this was how she dealt with the angst. like she would say things that were true of my home life with an "well, at least i'm not in x situation" but i was like the only way you can know is if it's strikingly like your own home situation. anyway, i wasn't really upset at her and i liked that i had my one sports-like talent which was that i could sprint fast. she was taller too but it didn't matter.

    also in the 4th grade some kids wanted to beat me up and i gave a little speech about how none of this will matter 10 years from now and they probably won't even remember it, so why is whatever reason they want to beat me up so important, what do they think it will bring... i don't think they wanted to go all the way anyway, and they kind of blinked and left.

    but i mean i was scared in both of these situations, i was always scared. generally i don't want to get in a physical confrontation. so i will run, hide, seek protection, try to talk them out of it, etc. but most importantly avoid it from the start. i just had a horrible time in the 4th grade. my mom made me a horrifying bright flowery winter coat and i was teased a lot for being bad at PE (except running but that's not a team sport usually) and for my generally shitty clothes. it was a bad year.

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    Avoidance. Violent confrontations usually go awry for both parts, and nobody benefits from them. If it happens then I'd try to stop the confrontation by grappling the best I can so I can avoid legal problems for myself. Internally though I had some not nice confrontations in high school (nothing big of course) that left me with a strong internal fear of violent physical events I don't know why.

    You know what is far more effective in making you win a confrontation? Record the event, menace, or problem, and be the first to report it to an authority if that authority can deal with it, be it a school director, a labor union deputy, a police officer, or some shared contact with a say in the offender's sheenanigans.

    Some don't get properly punished and disciplined when they need to be in their childhood, and when they grow up think their whims and impulses are their rights or something. At the end is just a matter of education, someone who didn't have their childish huffs and tantrums controlled but have grown up to have an adult's body is not worth an injury, not even a minute of attention. There's nothing more pathethic than an adult starting a violent scene typical of a 6 years old because he didn't get his candy or toy.
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    I prefer physical confrontation over verbal fighting or rulemongering, drawing in authorities or pathetic shit like that. I don't do well with words when I get angry, it's like the verbal center in the brain shuts down.
    I live in the most peaceful country in the world so there haven't really been any altercations worth mentioning for a long while, the only ones have been when the other party has backed down on threat of escalation to violence. Back in my old home country and as much younger there were some fights. Beating some people up is a valid tactic to make less people try to fuck with you, though honestly it's just exhilarating.

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    I definitely can't talk somebody out of wanting to beat me up, lol. How do you even do that? If somebody wants to fight me I'll immediately start thinking about how to defend myself. The thought of trying to peacefully sort it out doesn't even occur to me. Like I don't feel as if I can influence their actions.
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    Quote Originally Posted by fatgurl View Post
    I definitely can't talk somebody out of wanting to beat me up, lol. How do you even do that? If somebody wants to fight me I'll immediately start thinking about how to defend myself. The thought of trying to peacefully sort it out doesn't even occur to me. Like I don't feel as if I can influence their actions.
    This is from my experience.

    You can avoid a lot of fights by minding your manners and making sure you don't step on any toes. If a person wants to fight you, you never match their emotional intensity or go beyond it, but you should maintain a polite and calm tone.

    Never let them get too close, you can keep an arm between yourself and the person to stiff arm them away from you to maintain distance so you will be able to see a sucker punch easier.

    Don't appear afraid or angry (most importantly afraid), just stay calm and try to calm them down. This has worked for me in school and in Bars and such places where fights tend to happen. I also worked on a psych floor with violent patients that we had to restrain.

    However, this is all from experience being just by myself with some friends and no one to protect but myself. If someone slapped my girl's ass I'm going to have at least try to throw hands just to save face. So I should probably learn how to fight lol.
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    I can be temperamental and when i'm very angered at someone I'll need a physical outlet, but there is never a need to become violent at someone. The worst I've done was throwing dishes on the floor, slamming doors or throwing water at people's face. I like the thrill of confrontations and escalating, have been doing judo during uni, I've also liked to taunt people that were stronger than me and then I just run away bc I'm a coward lol. I think it has to do with being EP, DCNH creative subtype, cp648 tritype("triple reactive") and not sx-last probably. I've mellowed with time tho. Now when i'm angry I just go for a run so that's it.

    As to real fights, I had some when I was at elementary/middle school, but of course now I hate the idea of harming someone and trespassing on someone's bodily integrity. I got mugged while in Brazil some years ago and the 3 junkies just hit me because I refused to give my money(what was I thinking?). In the end they still got it lol. Just give dangerous people whatever they want right away lol

    From experience a fight is never worth it. People who act aggressive know that too, so best you can do is puff yourself up and not act threatening; most of the time they'll just go away.
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    My ILI dad is really grouchy sometimes and gets in these pissy moods. He’s really mouthy, but then when confrontation starts, he backs off (lol husband has commented I am same way, swear the older I get, the more I turn into my dad) anyoway, I’ve never seen him physically fight with anyone, but he sure can get shitty. I’m suprised he doesn’t get punched more tbh.

    my mom is like a football player lol. She is ESE. I remember my mom and dad getting in a fight once and she pinned him against the wall lol she never hit me, but I could see her snapping under extreme circumstances.

    my husband (beta st) thinks the way to solve problems is to threaten to kick someone’s ass, kick someone’s ass, or kill them. Seems what he always says. I try to make sure it doesn’t get past the threaten stage
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    Quote Originally Posted by reverie View Post

    my husband (beta st) thinks the way to solve problems is to threaten to kick someone’s ass, kick someone’s ass, or kill them. Seems what he always says. I try to make sure it doesn’t get past the threaten stage
    Lool This reminded me of my dad. He was like this when I was younger. I remember some kid at school poked me in my eye once and I went home and told my parents. My dad told me that I should spit in their eye the next day looool
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    i forgot the worst one in 6th grade. my two friends who had flunked many years in a row, one who i liked and saw as a friend and the other who i was uncertain of and didn't trust, did something to me in the girl's restroom and i couldn't remember what it was. i was emotionally kind of in shock and then like devastated and i tried to remember exactly what had happened and started trying to piece it back together, but my imagination started filling it in. i couldn't admit i couldn't remember bc i was too ashamed for some reason that my memory failed. but i was quite terrible and attempted to report it... because i didn't know what to do and ugh i really regretted that too... but i think i got what i wanted out of it which was the girl i saw as more my friend, subtly was resolving it with me... it was that i couldn't communicate with her about it, i was too afraid, and i used the principal (the shame!)... but she was rather moved by my inability to remember what happened and confronted me about why i had lied, and i could see in her eyes when she realized from my pov i hadn't, and that i couldn't process what had happened... somehow this fixed everything and we never spoke of it again. anyway i just don't know what they did, it was probably something minor like shoving my head in the sink, i hope it wasn't the toilet... aaaaah. i feel like i had committed some offense and this was a lesson or something, but i never knew what i had done and well, then i couldn't even understand what had happened.

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    I got into fights because I always defended the kid getting bullied. Sometimes I could talk the bully out of it, sometimes the bully and I threw hands. And I never lost a fight. Pull my hair and end up with a broken finger. My IEI dad taught me kung fu and how to fight in general. Most kids don't really know how to fight and some fly into a blind rage....

    I don't like confrontation, but there's been times I couldn't get around it.

    As an adult I would most likely just block hits and attempt to restrain the person until they calmed down if I couldn't talk my way out of it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by fatgurl View Post
    Lool This reminded me of my dad. He was like this when I was younger. I remember some kid at school poked me in my eye once and I went home and told my parents. My dad told me that I should spit in their eye the next day looool
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    once some guy was talking crap about my husband at school. they were on the football team together. as soon as practice started, he ran into the guy on the field, lifted him up and slammed him down, broke his collar bone and said, get up, bitch he ruined that guys high football chances, so I heard. He didn’t get in trouble for it, well, because it was football practice lol most people at school were afraid of him after that. It must have been bad. I didn’t see it.
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    What type do you think your dad is @fatgurl ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by reverie View Post
    What type do you think your dad is @fatgurl ?
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    I do my best to avoid it. Se is really not a good function for me.

    That being said I remember @sbbds used to talk about seeing people's PoLR going into "super saiyan mode" when seriously pressured. At least for me that's true.

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    I’m too skinny and laidback to get into fights and it’s just not smart to beef with anyone in my area. I think self defense, being able to protect others and not being physically intimidated easily are valuable skills though
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    ooh since i have to continue there was also the guy on the bus when i was 17 touching my hair... this one is um the best because i froze, i couldn't move, i couldn't speak, time slowed down to a crawl and i was paralyzed. finally the bus driver threw him off the bus. and i felt really really ashamed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by inumbra View Post
    ooh since i have to continue there was also the guy on the bus when i was 17 touching my hair... this one is um the best because i froze, i couldn't move, i couldn't speak, time slowed down to a crawl and i was paralyzed. finally the bus driver threw him off the bus. and i felt really really ashamed.
    I can relate. I've had instances where similar things happened to me and I reacted the same way.
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    ^@inumbra, in addition to your "forgetting", this sounds like some kind of PTSD experience.

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    Quote Originally Posted by inumbra View Post
    ooh since i have to continue there was also the guy on the bus when i was 17 touching my hair... this one is um the best because i froze, i couldn't move, i couldn't speak, time slowed down to a crawl and i was paralyzed. finally the bus driver threw him off the bus. and i felt really really ashamed.
    Quote Originally Posted by fatgurl View Post
    I can relate. I've had instances where similar things happened to me and I reacted the same way.

    This seriously makes me mad to read. I'm sorry this happened to you.
    The Barnum or Forer effect is the tendency for people to judge that general, universally valid statements about personality are actually specific descriptions of their own personalities. A "universally valid" statement is one that is true of everyone—or, more likely, nearly everyone. It is not known why people tend to make such misjudgments, but the effect has been experimentally reproduced.

    The psychologist Paul Meehl named this fallacy "the P.T. Barnum effect" because Barnum built his circus and dime museum on the principle of having something for everyone. It is also called "the Forer effect" after its discoverer, the psychologist Bertram R. Forer, who modestly dubbed it "the fallacy of personal validation".

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    I shrink or freeze a lot of the time. I naturally back down and kinda make myself smaller and more submissive. Though l, that is with strangers and often because I feel really unsure if “I am in the right and can stand up”. It’s different if it involves my friends. What the hell no, im still nervous but fuck that shit is my friend.

    Siblings are a different story lol. A lot of is not type related for me, just a lot of feeling unsure. But when I am sure, it does not scare me and I will not back down….then I will go cry in the corner to relive the emotion later and ruminate lol. I really hate when people try and physically intimate me. I don’t want escalation and I don’t want to be walked over. Still learning to deal with that.

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    ooh since i have to continue there was also the guy on the bus when i was 17 touching my hair... this one is um the best because i froze, i couldn't move, i couldn't speak, time slowed down to a crawl and i was paralyzed. finally the bus driver threw him off the bus. and i felt really really ashamed.
    yeah Fight, Flee or Freeze. It's not just Fight or Flee- sometimes 'Freeze' comes in too. I sounded overly faux-positive and bad-ass in my last post but I have had my own freeze moments too. It doesn't make you weak or insecure- I think just sometimes this is the best over-all strategy. A lot of sexual sadists get more empowered when somebody fights back or runs away - when a person freezes, it actually can instill empathy back into them again and lowers their erection.

    I read VewyNarcissist's post lol- not trying to pick on the guy but it just sounded too edgy to be believable like it's too zap-noki 2012 troll-y. Like 'face it bnd a str8 male would ALWAYS win the fight against a gay male!' Haha no that just isn't true but society has instilled women/gay guys these mental victim complexes a lot. SJWness isn't the way to solve this but I understand.

    oh zap/n0ki whereever you are bud I hope you didn't die lol.

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    This is interesting. I see people on here who say they should back down, pretend it's not happening. This will not help you. I hear all the time that "Bullies are cowards" this is misguided. I have seen people get their ass kicked by standing up to bullies. They like to fight, they like to see you submit, either way, they will be happy.

    The best thing to do is to stand up for yourself and if you can't fight them off just keep them back so that you can run.

    I have seen small people win fights just by being more aggressive. This won't happen in all circumstances, but it gives you a much better chance than submission.

    I like it when people are submissive, it wouldn't turn me off at all. I know bullies would like it too.

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    Fight, flight, or freeze have been proven to be automatic survival responses that are often beyond the realm of conscious choice.

    The "freeze" option might not actually be helpful in a certain situation or with a certain person, but it's hardwired. What you do in the present could also be linked to past trauma and how you survived back in the day, even if it's not helpful now.

    People often blame themselves for how they react to being victimized ("why didn't I just run or fight back?") but the body usually just chooses a response for you until you train yourself to do something different.

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    I've never been in an actual serious fight. Schoolyard fights, boxing in the ring, sure, but not like a street fight. Too many things can go wrong in a street fight.

    An SEE I know once got punched in the face at a bar. He simply took it and said, "I'm not going to fight you." There was no fight. I feel this is a good response to anyone looking for a fight, unless there was serious intent on injuring you or taking your life, in which case I would run like hell.

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    I've rarely been in a fight in my life. I fought most often when I was in elementary school. It was between the boys in our class in our school's backyard. This aggression could have been the result of unrealized energy. I think so because we didn't have a lot of sports, not enough physical activity. We didn't have soccer or volleyball in elementary school. When we went to high school, we stopped fighting with each other. But we were beaten by those who were older and stronger. I often had bruises on my eyes, but I didn't try to fight the aggressors. I even thought then that i hate my life. When I started going to basketball and got really tall, they stopped bulling me up.
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    Had a neighbor when I was 7, he was 12, fat, and thought it would be funny to slap me.
    I didn't understand why so I went to tell my mom, who then went batshit at his parents, I remember her yelling at them.
    Never saw the kid again.

    When I was 12, some guy thought it would be funny to hit repeatedly me with a big wooden ruler so I hit him back with my hand. Once. He actualy stopped bullying people after that from what I was told.

    At 12, a bit later, I got into fights with a girl who used to be my friend but started bullying me because I wasn't cool enough for her anymore or something. She still has scars, I'm good.

    When I was about 16, some guy tried convincing me to slap him. He asked repeatedly until I obliged.
    He then got terrified of me and would flinch if I moved too fast around him.
    I know how to hit hard but have no training in controling that thanks to my martial artist dad talking about shifting weight to accompany the movement which I somehow naturaly integrated.
    I probably have more control now but no proof.

    There were playfights here and there that may have gone too far, but nothing noteworthy.

    All I remember really was about little idiots trying to be cool or funny, not aggression for the sake of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by EUDAEMONIUM View Post
    How do you handle physical confrontation? What are some examples that have happened in your life?
    I'm a girl so it's going to be very different for me than for the guys.....so like I'm not expected to get into big fights breaking my nose or their bones or anything. But I've randomly had short fights with strangers in the street that got actually physical, when I was in um, this kind of, idk, period in my life. I don't know why, because I wasn't any more irritable than usual but I'd just get into these little fights, verbal sometimes turning a bit physical. I've calmed down a lot by now, but I'd do it again if I saw the need to.

    I mean now I'd do it only in self-defense if they attacked first, I used to provoke it out in some cases when I was in that period of my life, but I wouldn't do so anymore.

    I also had fights turning physical in family when a teenager so that's where all this comes from for me. Father, brother. Mini fights with boyfriend too. A little wrestling with some male buddies and the like. All really vanilla tho'.

    So otherwise I do not have real experience in fighting. I absolutely never trained for it. I wouldn't mind doing so, I've analysed it before how to do it, just for fun, and I've also liked American football when I tried it a little and things like that.

    Also I've never got crazy impulsive in any fight. If I'm attacked then my first instinct is either restrain the person or fight back half impulsively half considered. Um, by "considered" I mean, I think the only time I lose my head a tiny little bit and get more impulsive than intended is if it's somehow an emotional matter.

    Like with that bf, one time I'd been reading too many stupid relationship books so next time we were having a bad argument, I decided to try and be "kind" in the middle of the fight. Wave that white flag. Just be kind simply to be kind, to build a nicer relationship, ok (LOL). Then he'd keep on being an arse in response, and I really blew up inside because of that and outwardly I lost it a tiny little and took and slammed his laptop down, more impulsively, with a tiny bit more force than I'd ever intend to (but I knew it wasn't going to break it & and no, no hdd in it), and he'd already just totally get agitated lol like I was a dangerous, unpredictable monster or something. I wasn't directly attacking him at all, either but it was already too much for him.

    In such cases I've had to step back to hold&calm him down, just be like, make sure he'd get grounded OK again lol.

    My brother is a bit like that too....like even if I'm just not 100% neat, careful and I throw something hard when moving things, because I know the thing won't break or get a dent in it or anything, but he'll freak out like he thinks it's gonna be real damaged. And when we still did the fights, he'd eventually end up losing and run away screaming.

    So yea I don't know, but it's really easy to intimidate some people. Even with what I called "vanilla" above. You just do a tiny little bit of an implied threat of violence to intimidate them, it's a good way to shut them up/make them stop even if you're a girl. Even if it's like, just a "symbolic threat".

    I obviously don't like to use that method however, I've only done it when nothing else worked with those people, e.g. if they tried to keep lying to me or slandering me about seriously bad things or just generally acting extremely shittily towards me. And of course it only works with certain people.

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    idk, people don't fight me. They just stare at me disappointedly, cat call me, try to sell me a room in a storage shed for cheap so they can rape me, or make fun of me.

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    i've never been in a fight, I do my best to avoid situations which may come to blows
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