The biomechanically collapsed are probably the most discriminated people in the world

Even more than race, gender, sexual preference, religion, etc.

Time for another thought piece.

And this is one that i’ve had plenty of time to reflect on and experience this past decade.

You see my thesis is that the ‘biomechanically collapsed’ are by far the most discriminated people in the world.

And it doesn’t even come close.

Far, far more than any gender, sexual preference, religion, or color of skin.

And today i’m going to explain why I think that is.

Being collapsed turns you into a shell of a person

When I first ‘collapsed’ it was mid-2014 after a TMJ dentist in Vietnam filed down my back teeth and it was like I got to see the world through a completely different lens.

I felt depressed and like a hermit from morning to evening every day.

I’d lost my ability to read people and often found people uncomfortable around me. And I in turn was uncomfortable around them.

It made me yearn for sympathetic people that would communicate with me more than at any point in my life. Because people just tended to avoid me.

Which is why for the first time in my life I sort of became ‘religious’ and would ask my wife to join me in going to a Christian church every Sunday. I wanted to be around ‘nice’ people because most others at my office, for example, tended to avoid me like the plague.

And this all came as a complete shock to me as i’d never had this problem my entire life.

I was 37 years old and had lived in over ten countries and travelled to about 90 of them. I’d always made friends easily everywhere I went as I was a friendly guy and it came naturally to me.

But now it was like I had become bastardized.

I’d turned into the weird person that everyone avoids and it felt absolutely crazy to me. But as the days rolled on.. you just adapt and get used to it.

You start to forget your old self and accept this new, shitty, version of yourself.

The world judges you for how you appear

During this period when I collapsed it was crazy how people treated me.

Some people would just rudely ignore me or treat me like I was a second class citizen.

Most people seemed to receive me poorly as if some monster was approaching them. And they’d typically seek to remove themselves from my presence as quickly as possible.

I just felt a bit ‘weird’ to them.

And they felt justified in treating me this way.

After all they were not judging me for any of the typical discriminations. I was a white, skinny, Christian, heterosexual male.

So they felt completely justified in treating me like a piece of garbage as I had in essence ‘earned’ that positioning by becoming this person that they saw in front of them.

Weak, needy, unhappy looking, a person that drains energy rather than gives it.

All of the books tend to say that you are absolutely in your right to avoid these kinds of people. And that you should surround yourself with people that give you energy and make you happy.

But when you’re on the receiving end of this as I was… I can tell you straight up. It sucks!

I saw both sides of the fence multiple times

Following 2014 I zigzagged with my health for years until late 2021 when I deemed that I’d figured out the rules to these biomechanics. And I have been on the up and up since.

But those seven years of zigzagging taught me so much about human nature.

When I was doing better with my health making friends came so much easier. I seemed happy and people wanted to engage with me. They wanted to get to know me more and invite me to things.

But when I was doing worse they’d avoid me and find excuses to not invite me to things.

This despite the fact that I was always putting a LOT more effort to engage and form relationships with people when i was feeling worse.

It’s when I was healthy and made very little effort that people seem to come to me. Because i guess they perceived me as being happy and having positive energy.

In any case.. it was the fact that I zigzagged like this for so long that allowed me to put together the patterns and understand it. And once I understood it, it didn’t stress me nearly as much.

I realized that being collapsed was going to mean that people would openly discriminate against you and you’d essentially just have to accept it. Because they’re not even really going to feel guilty about it.

How this compares to other forms of discrimination

Having experienced this myself and observed others for years I can tell you that no other type of discrimination comes close in my view.

And let’s go through an example so you understand what I mean.

Let’s say there is a black guy that has great structure, an attractive face, and is smiling and confident.

Then take another black guy who looks weird, obese, and depressed.

Who do you think the world is going to discriminate against easier?

The confident, attractive guy? Hell NO. That person will be a LOT harder to discriminate against than the weird, obese one.

Because people pick on and look down on the weak much easier than they do the strong. It is human nature.

And the same goes for any other type of discrimination you can think of.

The loud, outgoing, and outspoken transgender will be very hard to discriminate against for most people. I even see this play out here in Thailand with ‘ladyboys’ sometimes.

The outgoing ‘ladyboys’ are outright intimidating. The vast majority of the people around the person do not have the guts to even consider saying something derogatory to them because they fear the repercussions.

And that is simply human nature. Most humans avoid conflict with those that are strong and pick on those that are weaker than them.

Closing thoughts

I feel pretty much zero discrimination these days.

Life feels easy.

I’m happy everyday naturally.

I get along fine with others.

I feel again like a privileged, white, heterosexual male from a suburban American upbringing. Hahaha

But now I appreciate it so much more.

Because I saw the ugliness on the other side of the fence.

And while I think all forms of discrimination are evil… being ‘biomechanically collapsed’ is a particularly nasty and frustrating variety.

In part because the people around you won’t even consider it discrimination.