RE: LeoThread 2026-01-01 05-10
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Self-awareness is the alignment between stated preferences and revealed preferences — the gap between who someone thinks they are and who they actually represent. In other words, an accurate internal map of the self.
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It needn't be perfect, but it should be precise enough to avoid misrepresenting oneself, which many people do either intentionally or through structural ignorance
Being surprised by one's own behavior indicates repressed aspects or blind spots: unintegrated shadow, sexual repression, attachment disorders, repressed trauma with specific triggers, denial, or limited metacognitive (self-monitoring) capacity
A common example: women raised in highly religious environments can be so sexually repressed that erotic impulses feel alien, provoking retroactive disgust, self-condemnation, or even claims of "possession" — a split between the unaroused self and the aroused self.
Despite variation in comfort expressing such impulses, erotic darkness can be a pervasive feminine feature, often experienced as deep and shadowed
Self-report data are therefore often unreliable because they rest on too many generous assumptions:
Those assumptions make many survey findings tenuous. For example, claims that women report fewer partners than men in recent years are implausible in many Western contexts except where strong social controls or stigma exist.
Confounds include men inflating numbers and women underreporting; anonymity changes the incentives — preservation of self-image often outweighs any motive to "prove" oneself anonymously
People who prioritize reputation externally and image internally frequently lie to themselves because confronting certain truths would likely cause emotional collapse.
Mental stability can therefore depend on avoidance and denial, producing structural fragility
An intense preference for truth functions as a structural filter within this worldview and is central to its method of discernment