disgruntledbroad @ disgruntledbroad @lemmy.world

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I know it's still intense, but I am honestly shocked at the civility level of this conversation. This really is not reddit. In a good way.

I really don't know where I would start explaining this to be honest. In a nutshell, Reddit has a somewhat problematic assortment of communities for survivors of Christian fundamentalist sects and homeschooling. We place a high value on denim and worship a raccoon named Lord Daniel. That's the broad strokes of it

Maybe explain, as you're doing so well here, that your goal isn't to be invalidating. You could point out that sometimes distracting, venting, or leaning on coping mechanisms can actually become the problem. They can become a way to avoid and minimize our own feelings, abilities, and issues. Even basic actions, like taking a much-needed shower, taking a brief walk or finally making it through a whole workday can trigger massive chemical changes in our brain when we're in a crappy place.

I hope this helps. I think you're bringing up a really helpful sticking point here, and having received and misunderstood many a "man up" pep talk during depressive episodes, I gotta say it's a very cool move for you to workshop supportive language like this

I like the Ancient Soviets theory better than Ancient Aliens

In my little college town, there was this intense party culture. No frats, just kegs. In the 80s, apparently a school wide party became so large the local police force was unable to shut it down. The students commandeered an entire apartment building, and everyone just kinda had to wait for it to be over when they said.

Are there any other people from the weird side of reddit that keep thinking this jeans stuff is about the Duggar family?

As a queer person, for me at least I find the 'default' language pretty funny. I think it could just as easily be seen as acknowledgement of privilege as the other way around