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Originally Posted by Secretum
...The obsessions behind the behavior is what made it pathological. I felt so much guilt over helping a kid with his homework that I had to confess. I certainly hadn't broken any real rules; giving someone a clue on the answer to question 7 is much different from actually cheating. However, I was so religiously concerned with not doing anything "bad" that I couldn't rest until I "confessed" that I had...
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I could have written this. It's like a morbid fear of getting in trouble. No matter how unlikely or downright ridiculous (well what "if" "if" and "if"... when I admit what's actually going through my head, BF will say, "NO ONE THINKS LIKE THAT!". Which of course I counter with, "Well
I do, so someone else MUST! And
they will be the person that deals with this for
sure!"
) It's kind of weird though, in that I will totally sweat the most ridiculous stuff but it certainly hasn't kept me from doing other stuff with much
actual potential for trouble, hell even illegal. What is UP with that?!
(Hmmm, come to think of it, they have been of a self-destructive nature... not stuff against others though. No way.)
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Originally Posted by Secretum
...Innerzone, I hung out with the AP kids too. We called ourselves the "AP Cult"...Haha. Most of my acquaintances from those days are off studying engineering now. Thankfully I had the stupidity to take calc-based physics my senior year. My hatred of it protected me from suffering a similar fate. (disclaimer: I have nothing against engineers. Engineering is just not for me.)...
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Heheh, yup, almost all engineers too. Which is pretty much my idea of hell on earth.
There were 3 of us who "ruled" the group, where we'd go, what we'd do... like that. We had a name... The Triumvirate. Lol.