cherished berry

you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for a nuanced reason

i don’t feel like negativity is some kind of massive societal issue. on the contrary i feel like false positivity is constantly enforced as a social norm. and that discussing upsetting or traumatic subjects and experiences is regarded as extremely socially taboo. like, i think we could all afford to complain a little bit more and be a bit more comfortable talking about certain subjects :))

We’re all aware of fawn, fight, flight or freeze responses but there is a 4th option people do sometimes: totally ignore.

need a hat that says I WONT SPEAK UNLESS SPOKEN TO AND ITS NOT BECAUSE IM DISINTERESTED AND DONT LIKE YOU I JUST DONT UNDERSTAND SOCIAL INTERACTION AS WELL AS MOST PEOPLE AND ASSUME BY DEFAULT MY PRESENCE IS UNWELCOME AS A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE SO I KEEP TO MYSELF BUT I DONT MIND IF YOU INITIATE so i can wear it to work

how to do things that everyone else seems to do no problem

digital selfharm is real. do NOT check up on that ex-partner/ex-friend. do NOT reread those old messages/conversations that you know will hurt your feelings all over again or that will otherwise make you feel like shit. do NOT block evade to see if you’re being talked about. inhale. exhale. let it pass and you’ll be better for it.

no matter how bad things are going at least you aren't watching instagram reels right now

so cool how advanced the algorithm has become, it literally only takes like a decade or more of spying on all my internet activity and then it can expertly curate a selection of 15-20 youtube videos that i don't really want to watch, and then keep showing me those videos over and over again for a week so i can scroll past them again. the future is now

you are not immune to inventing an arbitrary set of rules that only you have to adhere to

i keep seeing #phm on posts here and getting super excited like "yay pretty hate machine! thats one of my favourite nin albums!" but no its just the fucking guys from project hail mary GOD im IRRITATED