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I've been through some very dark periods in my life (like high school), and in my experience, the unabashed "Tiggers" really were incapable of seeing/understanding that sometimes a person might know there is a "bright side", but be unable to reach it at the time.  There is NOTHING more irritating than a person who prattles and bubbles happily at you when you are going through a difficult time, urging you to "look on the bright side" or changing the subject back to rainbows and sunshine, and there are few things as isolating as being confronted by someone else's determinedly bright, brittle, everlasting burble of joy in response to a situation in which you really just want empathy and an acknowledgement that while the situation is bad, the other person understands and is there for you, and loves you.

I cannot abide the Tiggers in life, but I try to remind myself that they are this way because they haven't ever experienced real darkness, or because they aren't clever enough to achieve true empathy.[/quote]

I was with you PP until you decided to apply a blanket personality bash to the Tiggers. [b]Many if the most optimistic people [u]I know[/u][/b] have had the most horrific starts in life yet remain upbeat and are incredibly empathetic. Sounds like you could use a little self-work on walking in another's shoes yourself.[/quote]

Your personal experience has been quite different from my personal experience.  [/quote]

Yes, but you didn't qualify your statement as personal experience. You applied it to all Tiggers. [/quote]

Oh, OK: I cannot abide (INSERT: "any of the") Tiggers (INSERT: "I've encountered") in life, but.....

Better?

Also, I agree with the PPs who remarked on just how irritating Tigger-the-cartoon is.  Even as a child, he really irked me: it was clear that his manic, determinedly upbeat joy and twitchy, perpetual motion came with a tremendous lack of self-awareness: Tigger's "friends" were super irritated by this.  Also, Tigger was the least intelligent of Pooh's friends.

AND, his song was an ear-worm that I STILL remember: "The most wonderful thing about Tiggers, is Tiggers are wonderful things! Their tops are made out of rubber, their bottoms are made out of springs! They're bouncy bouncy bouncy bouncy fun fun fun fun FUN! And the most wonderful thing about Tiggers is I'm THE ONLY ONE!"  See, that doesn't even make sense: he's referring to himself in the plural ("most wonderful thing about TiggerS, is TiggerS are wonderful thingS", etc.), but then refutes himself with the "I'm the ONLY ONE" line.  Tigger can't follow his own thought through to its conclusion without getting lost in his own words.  Tigger can't sit down long enough to focus enough on his own thoughts to even make sense.  Tigger clearly has slow processing speed and severe, untreated ADHD, and Tigger has severe social issues for which he requires therapy and maybe a shadow aid.  Tigger really needs an IEP.  Tigger's optimism comes at a terrible price; he is not someone I want influencing my child.

Eeyore is a little emo, but he'll be OK.

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