Writer's Block: Do you want to know a secret?

[von_geisterhand]

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The world would be a screaming asylum. The closest thing to what we call "relationships" today would be sudden bouts of extreme violence and/or sex flaring up suddenly and unpredictably, literally in the time it takes you to have a thought.

Comments

[moomin-puffin.livejournal.com]

I think you're right.
I've had the Twilight and True Blood experiences recently. Other comments on them aside, one of the key things in both is that the mind reader character is able to have a relationship with their significant other because they can't tell what they are thinking. To have a relationship with someone they could read the mind of would not be doable.

It's done with mirrors

[von-geisterhand.livejournal.com]

Not least of all because other people never see you the way you see yourself, much less the way you want them to see you. Dealing with how you see someone else seeing you is just one level too far.