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i consider it an accolade to be

unhinged from some people's overly constricted, narrow, rigid, inadequate, thoughtless, mean-spirited . . . realities.

As George Kelly demonstrated with his Role Construct Theory and grid . . .

when one's construct system is overly narrow, rigid and impermeable

OR

when one's construct system is overly broad, flexible and permeable

one will not tend to make reliable, functional, predictive assessments, hypotheses regarding reality and the reasonably near future.

Thankfully, mine has been pretty functional for these near 60 years.

I'd say your definition of "whacko" needs a lot more work than you seem to think it does. But that's not surprising.

BTW, you could go to the WEBGRID III program at the univ of Calgary on the net and throw in your relationships and 15-25 constructs and sort them and find out a lot about your constructs as well as your relationships. I'd bet you'd discover some surprises.

I'd bet that those you most hate and are most annoyed by are very close in similarity to yourself and/or one or both of your parents.

But, hey, consistency . . . and all that.