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  • I was raised by hoarders. I was the only one who ever did any cleaning. I was the only one in the house who knew how to operate the washing machines and vacuum cleaner at age 10. I made huge efforts sometimes to keep the place clean and organized, which turned into huge dramas as my parents used the new clean space as a reason to fight and be victims, until they would bring more shit in and leave it piled on top of the old shit.

    To this day, if I could live in a blank, white box with nothing else at all, it would be heaven.


  • ameancow@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlAn alternate timeline
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    18 days ago

    No, you don’t.

    You miss who you were when everything looked like this.

    You were young, you were discovering the internet like a new frontier, every new app you tried or new album you found or new comedy website was like discovering a new country. You could while away hours without responsibility or care or trauma, or at least nearly as much. You were not cynical and jaded yet.

    Nostalgia isn’t a longing for when things were simpler, it is a longing for when you were simpler.


  • ameancow@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlviolently cries and sobs
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    1 month ago

    Kind of like asking if we can stop picking up stones and rocks and using them to beat each other and instead use them to build homes.

    This isn’t a new fight. There will always be people who take our tools and abuse them by using them to hurt others. That’s what we’re fighting against, people who use our tools to hurt people instead of doing good. Unfortunately, if we just let people who collect stones and sticks for hurting people be, and not push them out of our village, they will just grow in number and strength so we can’t just block it out, we can’t live and let live around those who would take your life if they grew strong enough.

    If it’s tiring and annoying to see people have to always yell at the club-and-rock-wielding thugs and throw rocks back at them, you don’t have to get involved, but don’t decry those who DO have the courage to throw rocks back. If they didn’t do this, the rocks would start hitting you next.



  • This post is literally about how hard it is to get a formal diagnosis. Nobody said they don’t want to do it.

    This post is about a doctor who makes money from her personal brand, website, books and speaking tours, telling people that getting a formal diagnosis is so hard that why should you bother. And now that you’re emotionally validated, why not visit her blog, store or youtube channel and subscribe?

    I genuinely don’t know if her material is good or not, I tend to lean towards it being pabulum and watered-down schlock like literally any speaking-tour psychologist without even reading it. But lets not make any mistake about what’s being peddled here and why.

    I don’t really appreciate discouraging people from getting professional care and diagnosis just because you have convinced yourself that your impersonal motivational messages are as good as personalized and in-depth care that a professional can offer.



  • Overused characters who don’t have a lot of range, it would basically be watching Depp and Ryder in a romance together with some funny dialogue.

    Gomez and Morticia require a style of acting that calls back to early romance movies and is overplayed and over-the-top while remaining classical and debonaire and oozing with romance. I can’t see that chemistry with Depp and Ryder.








  • ameancow@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldMood
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    3 months ago

    One of the most surefire recipes for creating a generation of people who don’t want to socialize, improve themselves or feel any self-worth, is to be a parent who feels entitled to being the main character of the story and all your kids are just props and accessories.

    Who else has 10 hours of escapism and self-medication on the agenda today.


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    3 months ago

    This is exactly the kind of thing that comes from emotional isolation and a wrecked self-esteem and a lack of proper, loving people close to you in life.

    In healthy environments, people who love each other share with each other a lot of things without it feeling like a burden to anyone and they support each other and know how to just listen and be available. And no, I don’t know what that’s like either, I am just sharing the legends and stories.