• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    And what about people who feel exhausted by every type of social interaction? Because that’s my experience.

    That is literally what I’m talking about. That feeling is a muscle, it can be exercised and changed.

    IF YOU WANT IT.

    This is where people lose their minds when I do this ill-fated game. I don’t care if you’re fine.

    But a lot of people are not fine, they cling to the label to avoid change because comfortable patterns are going to be what your rationalizations default to before it will rationalize doing something really uncomfortable like even going to therapy, much less going out and meeting new people and pretending to be social long enough that you get stronger at it. This is where the label, and all the “personality profile” horoscope bullshit online does real damage to young people who need to be exercising their brains.

    If you’re fine, it’s fine. But a lot of people are not fine. The trends isolation and avoidance of each other is causing real harm to a lot of people.