Is it normal that i'm not affected by disturbing material

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I'm one of the people that likes spending time on the internet, primarily anonymously because I like the idea that everyone's just communicating without the worry of names or real life, this inevitably led me to 4chan and the other dark corners of the internet. I've seen a lot of gore, not fake horror movie ketchup and sausages kind of stuff, but real videos and pictures of morbid material, decapitations, amputations. Stuff not over the top, but quite real
It's not really these that worry me, it's the fact that over time, I seem to just have nowhere near a reaction as I used to, I used to grimace a bit at first, but as I saw more I treated them with an indifferent look and moved on, even smiling some times.
It's kind of generated a feel of insensitivity, I'm not an asshole, but I've never had the knack of being sympathetic or empathetic towards many people, in my childhood when friends would fall and graze their knees I would never really feel sorry for them, when trying to comfort someone I would never have any idea of what to say or do
I'm fairly sure I'm not some psychopathic sadist, but I need to know if something, is even minorly wrong with this stuff

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  • Terence_the_viking
    11 years ago

    Check out www.rotten.com it's great for people like you.

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    • KnightNigelWellingtonXXI
      11 years ago

      WHY DID I CLICK ON THAT LINK?!?!?!??!?

      Signed,
      Knight Nigel Wellignton XXI

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      • Terence_the_viking
        11 years ago

        Sorry it should have came with a warning.

        Are you the op?

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        • Kyrosanction
          11 years ago

          I am OP

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          • Terence_the_viking
            11 years ago

            Did you check it out?

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    • Couman
      11 years ago

      Rotten is positively tame compared to other sites out there. It's famous for being one of the first, but it's nowhere near the worst.

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  • Djtia
    11 years ago

    I think sometimes, people at one point or another, get a morbid curiosity and check out things like 4chan or rotten.com. Looking at the images does desensitise you to a degree.
    I used to work at a medical clinic, and would see a lot of photos from procedures which never bothered me - I found them fascinating. But when I had a procedure, looking at my photos made me feel faint. I guess in a way, if you can't connect certain images to yourself, or someone you know, then there is a certain 'distance' between you and what you're seeing, therefore it doesn't have quite as much of an impact.

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  • OmNomNomm
    11 years ago

    Yeah. I don't mind gruesome pics on the internet. But this one time I saw a picture of a guy who'd accidentally shoved his arm down a meat-grinder and it was all twisted and broken and meat and sinews were showing....
    And I thought to myself "well, that's enough internet for today" :)

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  • shade_ilmaendu
    11 years ago

    I'm very much the same way, though there are some things I still can't sit through... 3 guys one hammer being one of those. >.<

    It is much easier to feel detached when you're just watching a video or seeing photographs of something, and it is kind of morbidly fascinating to see the human body all taken apart... >.> Hah, maybe I'm just weird too.

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  • KeddersPrincess
    11 years ago

    I thought everyone laughed when kids fall and graze their knees.

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  • drugsrbadmkay
    11 years ago

    Your subconscious may be protecting you by refusing to accept that the gory photos are of real people and events. If you saw something like that in real life you might have a much harder time denying the reality and therefore have a much stronger reaction.

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    • KeddersPrincess
      11 years ago

      Well, that's not always true. I mean, you have people that work with dead bodies and mutilated corpses everyday, and it doesn't seem to bother them much. I think it just depends on the person. Everyone is different.

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    • Kyrosanction
      11 years ago

      I imagine so

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  • NotFloydzie
    11 years ago

    It's normal. You're your own person, you have your own personality. Just because you don't have certain caress qualities like everyone else does doesn't mean there is anything wrong with you.

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