Wholesome Badass

I’m recognizing a pattern in the personality type I’ve come to call The Archetype: disproportionate retaliation in response to discomfort. There is a swift intolerance for anything or anyone that appears to interfere with their ideas, preferences, plans, comfort, or agenda. Frustration, inconvenience, disagreement, or a perceived lack of deference is handled as a provocation to be consequenced. They justify their retaliation as a natural consequence of being provoked, while simultaneously denying they had been affected or reacted at all. In this dynamic, labeling someone as troublesome and treating them accordingly takes precedence over acknowledging feeling threatened and dealing with difficult feelings. Something is causing discomfort? Annihilate it.