People who laugh at their own pain before anyone else can aren’t resilient. They’ve simply learned that if they get to the joke first, nobody gets to decide whether it was serious, and that preemptive deflection has been protecting something very specific since childhood.
Self-deprecating humor about your own suffering is one of the most socially rewarded forms of avoidance ever invented. People call ...
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