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Originally Posted by notz
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Acting Out?????  |
Although garden-variety acting out could be among the scenarios I'm talking about, just calling a behavior "acting out" doesn't make it that.
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Originally Posted by Abraham Lincoln
If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.
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BrainyQuote (ouch!)
I think part of our paradox here comes from mixing different kinds of motivation and terminology, especially moral and, er, psychological. For instance, if you "need" to do something not only to get it done but to prove that you're not "lazy" or "sloppy" or "acting out" or something, you're just asking for the occasional motivational conflict.