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  • grueling_spool@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.mlLike its a drag race
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    22 hours ago

    I would also assume this, if I hadn’t also repeatedly witnessed the exact behaviour the OP describes. The “instant honk on green” drivers also tend to follow up with whatever reckless maneuver allows them to beat you to the next red light by 1.5 seconds. Inattentiveness and impatience are both dangerous on the road.



  • I’m in my 40s and it feels impossible at this point. I’m lucky enough to have found a SO that I feel safe to open up with, but I just physically can’t, having spent most of my life packing myself into an emotional bunker. My brain overloads and shuts down, and all I am able to articulate are meaningless cop-outs like “work was stressful” or “I’m just a little tired”. My means of expression are limited to the range between indifference and anger, because the rest of the emotional spectrum was abandoned to atrophy from childhood to young adulthood.

    I’m at peace with it. At this point, all I want is to do what I can–however little–to help anyone I can reach avoid the same outcome.


















  • I think I probably agree with your assessment, but I really just wanted to highlight that this thinking is endemic to western culture, or at least the slice of it with which I am familiar. Sure, a lot of people might not say things like this face-to-face, but you probably wouldn’t be shocked if you witnessed it, would you?

    Just like with any other harmful idea, all it takes is one person in a room to say it loudly and persistently while everyone else says nothing (or fecklessly points out the person’s gender as if dispensing some profound insight).