My System Is Autonomously Nervous

My System Is Autonomously Nervous
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Ever notice how your nervous system completely malfunctions when someone supremely confident enters the room? That's not just social anxiety—it's your parasympathetic system waving the white flag while your sympathetic system goes into full "fight or flight" mode, except both options somehow translate to "stand there looking like you've just witnessed an alien abduction." Thirty years of teaching neurophysiology and I still short-circuit when the department chair walks in unannounced. Evolution really dropped the ball on this one.

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