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The Feelings Monster: building a character with all the feels

by nickmain on 11/30/22, 7:39 PM with 28 comments

• by etaioinshrdlu on 12/1/22, 12:49 AM

  What would have really helped me as a child was a way to deal with Alexithymia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexithymia

  This is when you have complex indescribable emotions for reasons you cannot describe. I feel like the Feeling Monster is still too simple to handle complex indescribable emotions, which is where the biggest problems are.

• by floren on 11/30/22, 10:15 PM

  The Feelings Monster looks like it should be selling me cheap cell phone service (https://d2z1w4aiblvrwu.cloudfront.net/ad/7EZD/cricket-wirele...)

• by conductr on 11/30/22, 11:00 PM

  Reminded me of a book series my kid reads;

  A Little Spot of Emotion

  https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/2395B82E-7B44-44B0-B342-F...

• by thenerdhead on 12/1/22, 12:54 PM

  This data is cool, but I can't help but ask. Does a more data-driven teaching style actually help or does it harm? If there's any teachers or previous teachers out there, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

  The scenarios listed in the doc link of the article are interesting: https://www.k12blueprint.com/sites/default/files/Student-wel...

  Quite interesting to see the differences of this monster being used vs. Google Forms using emojis. I would guess there's an age gap of who may use the monster and who may relate more to emojis.

• by FailMore on 12/1/22, 12:34 AM

  Hey Microsoft people reading this. I'm an engineer training to be an attachment based psychotherapist. Please get in touch and say hi if you want to understand the way we think about emotional development. My email is in my profile