Just speaking my mind, nothing DID'ish

Well, this will be my second time typing it because I got logged out while posting it the first time and everything got lost.... So it is a lot shorter than the original.

It has nothing to do with DID, but I hope I can still post it here.

As some of you might know already, I can see what people feel. I can see when someone is angry, I can see when someone will attack someone else, I can even see when someone is lying. (with the lying you can never be completely sure though). I think if you would ask any stranger if they would like to be able to do that, they would. But I think no one really understands the amount of pain it carries with it.

In the tv series ‘Lie to Me’ the viewers follow the character Cal Lightman, someone who can read body language and facial expressions very accurately, just like me. At the end of episode one, you see him walking home, while hearing and seeing other people. At first a guy talking to his girlfriend, telling her that he would love to spend the holidays with her and her family. That is followed by a facial expression showing something like a combination of regret/disgust, he lied to her. Second is a woman talking on the phone, saying that she didn’t want her colleague to be fired. Her facial expression says she is lying by the way she smiles (hard to explain). Third is a man talking to a woman, telling her that he will leave his wife to be with her. His shrug tells that he is not honest about leaving his wife. You see Cal thinking, and as the man leaves Cal puts his hand on the shoulder of the woman, saying ‘excuse me’. Guess you’ll know what happens next.

In real life you’d have to look at a lot of things to see if someone is lying. Facial expressions, body language, spoken words, context, environment, ethnicity, baselines etc. Way too much to keep it easy.

All kinds of animals lie. Lions lie, they make their preys think that they’re not around. A certain bird lies by imitating other birds, making them think he’s one of them. Chameleons lie by faking their colors to blend in with the background. Scientists once taught a gorilla sign language, that gorilla also got close with a cat. That gorilla ended up telling the scientists that it was the cat who ripped the sink off the wall. So I guess we all lie to make life easier.

Would be fun to be able to see when others lie, right? Well, can you imagine what it is like if you see a girl madly in love with her boyfriend while he is totally indifferent about it all? Or if you see someone on the phone, and you can simply see something bad happened? Or notice someone you trust is being with you because she likes to use you to get attention? To me that hurts…

Thank you for reading


~Suzie