>>18862047devotion to a lack of perception can lead to the persistent notion that no real perception can exist. there is more to the reality of the concept than you are letting yourself acknowledge.
those who have subsisted only on dogma and arbitrary indoctrination naturally have a great deal of difficulty learning to look beyond this.
it can be compared to the case of a man who had spent his entire life unable to see who discovered in his 30s that his blindness had been caused by a relatively simple physical defect. he made the decision to have his vision restored and the procedure went well only to put him in the situation of having to begin the process of developing the neurological synaptic support for the data being input to his brain in his 30s.. long after the plasticity of the brain would easily accommodate this. he was in anguish over the fact that he was finally able to see but his brain had none of the development that most humans with working eyes begin working towards at the moment they are born. the eyes are passing an absurdly small amount of data to the brain which is building a hallucinatory visualization based on the tiny cues. to begin the process late in life is a relatively hopeless situation and he deeply regretted his decision as of the last report of him that I have seen.
if you have lived your life unaware of your own cognitive abilities the sudden burden of being aware of them is not a sudden benevolent blessing. It is natural to reject the notion that anyone has knowledge that you can not easily digest yourself. It is natural that you fight to stay relevant when your entire knowledge of reality is essentially invalidated by the most mundane of observations by those who do not share your lack.
while you are not alone in your lack of insight and experience the size of your peer group does not affect the quality of their opinions.
