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  • That is fascinating, but at the same time it shouldn’t be and you should be proud to be that way. I was all over the place when writing my original comment, so forgive how I wrote some of the things I wrote. But essentially what separates a secure and anxious type of person isn’t that a secure person never has thoughts and feelings like that, but it’s in the way they go about navigating their various relationships (familial, romantic, platonic, work, etc.). So in my example, there’s nothing necessarily wrong with feeling doubtful and a little uncertain that your wife suddenly says she has to work late tonight and you feeling like there’s a possibility that she’s cheating, but a secure type will navigate those feelings more rationality than an anxious type who will blow up and act out over it. The secure type will address their concerns in a more calm and relaxed manner despite the fact they may have those feelings. Some secure people don’t have those feelings at all and just take it at face value. Honestly, good on you for being the secure type!

    As for books…it’s been a while, so I’ve been going solely off memory from back in college. My college textbook is where I read most of this on so if I were to give a recommendation, it would be that lol. I’m sure there are books others can recommend. I’d say check up on any materials that have to do with the topic of “nature vs nurture” and they will most likely go into more detail about the phenomenon of twins and how alike they can be.

    I know a lot about this attachment stuff only because I recently was recommended it by someone I was dating. I read the book “Attached” by Amir Levine & Rachel S. F. Heller. I don’t remember them going into any details about the topic of twins and going deep into nature vs nurture, though. The book has a quiz to help you find out what attachment type you might be.

    The person I dated was a secure type with a little bit of anxious. I’m mostly anxious with a little secure. But the book has been helping me understand it and find better ways to become more secure.


  • Is this like the booked Attached? There’s Secure, Anxious, and Avoidant types.

    To put it basically:

    Secure - someone who is secure in their feelings. They generally take others at face value. Not necessarily in a gullible sense, but to give an example: if your wife suddenly told you that she would have to work late tonight, you will respond back to this with a calm and rational demeanor. You don’t blow up and cause a scene over this. You may or may not accept this at face value. Your type is not that you do accept it. Some secure types of people have doubts, but what separates them is how they will handle it. Someone with a secure type will address this with their partner by being direct and not jumping to assumptions they may have, but being as logical as possible.

    Anxious - someone who deals with a lot of anxious feelings and responds to those feelings with behaviors. Like in the previous example, if your wife suddenly told you she was going to work late at work tonight, if you have an anxious type, you will have doubts about the validity of this. And with those doubts, you are the type who be more likely to resort to acting out as a result of this in what they call “protest behavior”. Your protest behavior would be in the form of not directing and calmly addressing this with your wife. Instead you resort to passive aggression, such as texting something like “You can spend the night at your boss’ house after fucking him tonight.” or doing something rash like packing up your stuff and leaving the house because you’re sure that the marriage is over. In essence, you’re more likely to act out in this state over what you perceive as a threat rather than being direct and open to hearing more before making a decision.

    Avoidant - someone who is more avoidant in how they interact with others. They usually are more likely to want space from others. This person may get annoyed with a partner who is seeking for reassurance. There was an example in the book of a man and his wife who were part of a game show. His wife was anxious and constantly wanting him to hold her hand. He, the avoidant type, preferred to not do this as he felt this was dumb to keep having to hold her hand and they should just focus on the games instead.

    That is to say, you may have anxious or avoidant feelings inside, but the secure type is someone who manages them in a preferable way. They may have feelings about their wife staying longer at the office, but they will be more likely to address it appropriately with their partner and be calm and rational instead of being passive aggressive about it. The secure type is also one who can understand that something like holding their partner’s hand may be silly, but it’s what this person needs in this moment and it’s how they want to support their partner.

    The book goes into detail about how these aren’t necessarily bad types, but tries to help guide people into navigating their actions and how to identify others you interact with and understand how they are as people with specific attachment types can behave in different ways and better explain something that may seem foreign to you. To explain that the way they interact may not necessarily be bad, but gives you better clarity. The book also talks about what attachment types are best with others and which aren’t which can greatly impact how feasible a relationship can be.

    Edit: forgot to expand on the way it goes. The book addresses this and it says that scientists still aren’t sure how these develop. There are theories, but nothing definitive.

    It all goes hand in hand with the “nature vs nurture” discussion in psychology. This tries to investigate whether you develop your personality traits because your parents were that way or is it because you developed it from your environment growing up? I remember my psychology textbook going over twins separated at birth and this being one of the most interesting cases for this. Even though they didn’t grow up together in the same environment, they still had very similar mannerisms into adulthood, things we would assume would develop as they grow up because of how their parents raised them.

    It’s the same with attachments. It’s not entirely clear whether someone developed them from childhood environments or from biology.


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    You’d think he/she would have learned. My cat hit his head on the ceiling fan one time and is now always watching out for it whenever he’s close to the ceiling.

    But this is an orange cat, so the rules are different.








  • This happens a lot in the same application’s code, let alone between two different pieces of software.

    You wouldn’t believe how often I go in to fix something in an app I’ve built and end up breaking something else despite never directly touching that. Like I have a music player I built and I’ll go in to fix an issue affecting skips at the beginning of the song and when I go to test, I find that issue is fixed but now the whole app’s color scheme has changed or some other unrelated issue has appeared.

    Code is very finicky and fragile and relies on specific conditions it expects. The removal of a space somewhere in the code can do a lot of damage you never thought possible. You think it’s just an empty space, who cares? Nope! The code is expecting that space and when it doesn’t see it, it throws a fit and shit breaks.

    And when we’re talking about issues on the same system, these applications talk to the same things or each other enough that they have a similar effect. One application expects specific conditions and when it doesn’t find those, it spazzes out. Nvidia’s software was given explicit instructions on where it needs to go and what it needs to do. But if another application does something that interferes with those instructions, your Nvidia GPU will start acting up. The application unrelated to Nvidia wasn’t written by someone who is aware of what Nvidia is doing and so an issue appears. And then these developers work to figure out what happened and provide an update to fix.

    You can see why you’ll have more issues the more software you add into your system that’s unrelated to each other.

    It’s like hiring a bunch of professionals to work around your home but not explicitly telling them about each other. You hire a landscaper, an exterminator, a maid, a butler, a chef, a chauffeur, a contractor… and all of them come to your house on the same day every week. Each of them has a job to do and on your end, their jobs seem independent enough that they won’t be bumping into each other, but you forget about the little stuff that will cause interference. The maid wants to clean the living room, but your exterminator is chasing down a mouse right now and is gassing the living room. The maid starts working in there to clean up but doesn’t know about the gas and now she gets knocked unconscious and this causes the rest of your house to remain in a disorderly state. This is also not even taking into account any issues that can happen from one person that affect the whole home and everyone else indirectly like if the contractor was fixing the foundation but he uses dynamite and the whole house comes crashing down and now no one else is able to do anything.