So you are saying people with anxiety disorders such as myself are more highly evolved? It seems people without anxiety have a much easier time functioning and finding potential mates. I think this would be a good debate. Does high anxiety make one more or less evolved? Don't you think both extremes are undesirable? The happy medium seems to be the ideal. Too much and you are paralyzed. Not enough, and you are foolhardy. Pretty Aristotelian. Wonder what
@Skarekrow thinks. People who are intuitive feelers or empaths or highly sensitive people (like me) tend to be like pain sponges who absorb tons of anxiety. Often when I isolate, it has less to do with not wanting to be social, and more to do with not wanting to be drained by others. Anxious, neurotic people can make me very anxious and uncomfortable. In many ways it seems that people who are more receptive to the energy of others are more likely to be anxious. Dense insensitive people seem to be rather lacking in anxiety and awareness in my opinion. If you can spend the whole day around a sledge hammer, you probably can't tell if a stranger is hiding being sad. I find this to be a very compelling topic. As for how it relates to creepiness, I've read that creepiness is a product of ambiguity or confusion. It is like your mind and body don't know whether to be afraid or not. Like a clown. He isn't a scary lion or a harmless baby. Also, hiding one's eyes or face can be creepy as it prevents others from reading that individual due to the shortage of nonverbal communication cues. In the Scream movies, the villains are only really scary when they hold knives. But when they appear and are just standing there motionless and quiet, they are more creepy. Because it is impossible to determine their intentions or threat. I think creepiness is like a challenge to our evolved way of detecting danger. Is this person/thing/situation a threat or not? That uncertainty creeps us out. Distinguishing between scary, safe, and creepy is an exercise in interpreting information. In the past, if you couldn't tell that a poisonous snake was a threat, you could be killed. In today's world, danger is confusing. Is that guy walking behind me at night dangerous or harmless, or just creepy because he is carrying a ceramic doll? Sounds creepy to me.
