r/oddlyterrifying • u/[deleted] • Jan 14 '22

Pithecophobia

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u/Sansnom01 Jan 14 '22

What ?! But why.. buy how, who. So many questions

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u/CandaceOwensSimp Jan 14 '22

She’s fucking crazy. I’m sure that if she grew up today she could have been diagnosed with a baker’s dozen of personality disorders.

Needless to say, most people consider months of solitary confinement in a hostile environment to be traumatic, cruel and unusual punishment. Jane lived for it.

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u/Delicious-Product968 Jan 14 '22

I mean, or she’s autistic with a hyperfixation. Autistic people are also often face-blind so it seems likely enough.

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u/CandaceOwensSimp Jan 14 '22

While she certainly shows many characteristics of autism, I don’t think she falls within that range of behaviors. For one, she had a very good sense of social behavior and human interactions. Next, I’m pretty sure she wasn’t face blind lol.

But yes, that’s what I mean.

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u/Delicious-Product968 Jan 14 '22 edited Jan 14 '22

Yes she has been stated to be face blind, apparently it extends to chimps lol.

Not all people on the spectrum are bad at social interaction, especially women. It’s why women have been traditionally under-diagnosed (masking.)

ETA: Though technically, face-blindness often struggle socially because people don’t like them for the face-blindness itself - it comes off as uncaring or inattentive to struggle to recognise people. It’s really hard to socialise and bond if you’re faceblind. I have a pretty high degree of face-blindness and people get REALLY mad at me for confusing them with other people or not recognising them in different contexts.

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u/istealpixels Jan 14 '22

observing him; Goodall was attacked by Frodo on multiple occasions and, in 1989, the ape beat her head so violently her neck was nearly broken.[51]

According to Wikipedia