--- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was thinking about the problem I'm having along with > others regarding many of Akasha'a posts and I realize > that his satire/sarcasm completely stops any > conversation. How can you resond to posts "replete" > with sarcasm/satire? You can't. You want to > respond,but there's nothing to say. There's no > entrance into the conversation. An occassional > well-placed sarcastic response can be great, but when > the entire post is just a sarcastic riff, what can you > do? Nothing. I used to have a 14 year old client who > was extremely bright, very verbal, and very, very > clever, but he was constantly going off on these > sarcastic riffs that prevented any authentic > relationship to form. You can't have a relationship > with someone who is constantly sarcastic.
The thing is, why would you even want to? To me the behavior you describe sounds like one of those low-self-esteem thangs, where what the person fears most is being rejected. So to prevent that from happening, the person gets proactive and becomes consistently so obnoxious that no one ever *wants* to interact with them. Voila...the person acting out is never rejected, because he/she never allows anyone close enough *to* reject them. But this is all psychobabble. The bottom line with a few of the offending persons whose posts I now consign to the trash bin without reading them is much simpler than that. If the person has estab- lished a history of being an asshole, allow them to be an asshole on their own. You don't *have* to get sucked into their dramas just because they have chosen to be drama queens. :-) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Drugs Don't Discriminate. Get help for yourself or someone you know. http://us.click.yahoo.com/0I.OUB/ZbOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
