Mr. Puzzler Pt. II | 2 January 2022

 Like I said, 
 I'm not super 
 smart or eccentric, so 
 my thoughts aren't 
 anything special 
 or unknown. 

 Neither my words nor 
 my form have much 
 finesse, 
 but somehow these 
 genius wordsmiths I still 
 impress. 

 So if it's not 
 my thoughts nor 
 my words, 
 it must be how I paint 
 my story 
 when it's heard. 

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Something else I realized is that I work very well with the translator. He’s a puzzler too. But his puzzle pieces are thoughts and feelings. So many fights avoided because he knows how to switch out the others’ thoughts and feelings with his own. So often the problem isn’t the thoughts and feelings, just that they’re expressed in a way they don’t understand. He is able to listen to two people speak two different languages, and somehow can figure out what they want to say before even they can. He’s great with kids since he doesn’t rely on their words to understand what they’re trying to express.

I guess what makes our translator a genius at communication and de-escalation is the fact that they’re an empath. Since they know what they feel before they even open their mouth, they don’t have to waste any time looking for the right words that the other person will understand.

She’s also a next level empath. By that I mean that not only can she feel their feelings in response to her words before she even says them. She’s like a time traveler. And it makes all the difference when you can learn what you said wrong before saying it, and then knowing that response so she can start building the language that they best respond to.
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I just realized I started calling the translator “she” part way through. Though my selfs tend to lean towards the masculine (ever so slightly), most are androgynous mixes of masculinity and femininity. Very few are so dominantly masculine or feminine to feel the need to address gender,
for they take both forms.

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Mr. Puzzler

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