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It's funny how accurate I am at predicting the plot of these crime dramas sometimes. Maybe I can just pick up on cues pretty easily. But how, after a few sentences exchanged between a husband and wife at breakfast, can I tell that he's one of those controlling, manipulating type men? That he's the type who has to be the center of her life, and god help her if she doesn't do what he wants? All that from just him accepting coffee and asking if she's alright when she (pregnant) shows a bit of dizziness.
On another show there was a kid who turned out to be a sociopath. Saw through his "omigod I was tortured at this group camp and I didn't want to get in trouble and go back there" sob story (to explain why he murdered another kid, who had seen him do something wrong).
Sometimes it's difficult to be able to pick out these things in seconds. I feel like in my interactions with people, I have to "play dumb"...because I don't want to freak people out by seeing where they're going long before they get there. Is it the same way for other people, as well? Are we all just slowing ourselves down because communicating on a more intuitive level just runs counter to how we've been culturally trained to interact?


*edit* Great, the abused woman went to a lawyer person who was all, "well, why didn't you tell anyone he was abusive? he's going to have custody of the baby now!". Great thing to say to a woman...blame her for the fact that she was too scared to go to anyone about it. When the man keeps absolute control on where she is at all times. Great.