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  • Americans are indoctrinated by their media and society to be segregated into political and social camps that have tribal wars with each other. That’s all priority no. 1 for them rn and it spills over.

    It’s just people bickering about social and political issues like gender, misinterpretation of isms, social hierarchy, etc. But because Americans don’t do anything but compete amongst each other, they bring their problems here where it echoes out into nothingness and disintegrates. But so long as they feel they were heard or had an online “win”, they get a dopamine hit and sense of progress, entirely ignorant to their apathy.

    This can feel, at times, the place that attracts the biggest losers. Like all the troll characters out of South Park’s Skank Hunt saga. But there is also a huge amount of insecurity and desire to be spotlighted. What society thinks of a person is also always a really important thing they’ll post about—just is, they really, really care for some reason.

    Moosh that all together and you got a bunch of apathetic, socially anxious, and insecure people that lack social tact and empathy, hidden on keyboards, watching their world fall apart but hoping someone besides them will help it.





  • saltesc@lemmy.worldtoMemes@sopuli.xyzHe's just eccentric
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    “affirmed of the position that the term is used”

    Yrp, you’re underscoring one of my tangent points. I couldn’t be bothered making more text in the one comment, but also figured if the comment was too long, it’d get a bunch of people jumping on me before they could manage to finish it. Alas, never avoidable. So, thanks 😁

    Oh, but also just keep in mind, those misconceptions are in quotes for a reason.

    And I see it kind of the same way as we saw OCD being diluted, just the 2020s version of that. Only the ignorant claimed to be or claimed to say one is OCD for normal behaviours to average people leaning more towward a perceived unusual particularity, such as ironing and folding clothes, for example

    But again, I’m drunk.


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    As the years go on, I’m more affirmed of the position that the term ‘autism’ is used to explain every day behaviours, but by below average IQ people. They’re both cognitive spectrums, after all. But even experts of the former struggle to define it, just like the shortcomings of IQ and it’s…whatever it is.

    It’s why more and more we hear, “Well I guess everyone’s a little on the spectrum.” So if it’s normal, not being so is not normal.

    I think, “The average person isn’t below average” is synonymously more true—obviously—in context of cognitive application.

    At this rate the modern, “Haha! NERD!!!” aka. “autistic” will be someone that folds washing or can’t socially explain the Dunning-Kruger effect to a person that thinks it’s European Ben & Jerry’s, entirely missing the critique on their education in politics being from X.

    My drunken point is, who the fuck doesn’t like sorting wires? You ever dealt with those messy things?! Only an idiot wouldn’t.


  • Bring a journal with you—or something—and write down why you feel great and not anxious.

    Read it when you’re feeling quiet and anxious.

    Society can be a prison and social anxiety is the most common symptom of a captive. Everyone’s happy when they are themselves. You can have fun with alcohol, but you can have just as much fun without it. Nothing is different except that alcohol drops your guard and makes you care less about what others think.

    I’ve been in my backyard with headphones, dancing alone like no one’s watching. I now do that all the time without booze, because clearly I want to do that to feel happy. Fuck anxiety. Don’t let it become depression 😘


  • Booze is good fun, but not if you’re prone to dependency on substances. I really like booze to heighten a mood a bit more, but there’s a point where I don’t like it anymore. I think there’s quite a few people that never recognise their personal boundary when it approaches and then it flies on by.

    Like almost everything in life—substances, exercise, sun, food—moderation is key. Enjoy too much of a good thing and it’ll start harming you.










  • The Godfather. The characters are empty and hard to attach to, the sound is terrible, there’s so much filler in the editting it becomes a chore as I watch yet another seemingly pointlessly extended shot or micro-scenes—Why?! What was the point?!—And yet I’m meant to feel something when this character I hardly know since about 10 mins ago gets killed?

    If a film had an inflated ego…