Anxiety culture is standing outside of a building for fifteen minutes before going inside because you need to figure out how the doors open, where the receptionist desk is, etc. before you even consider making a move.
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Anxiety culture is being able to help your friends with their anxiety worries, but being unable to apply your own words to yourself. It just feels so much realer when someone else says it, instead of trying to convince myself.
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anxiety culture is editing a comment multiple times because you keep worrying that you'll be misunderstood
Noooo because it is true /hj
I do that too
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social anxiety be like:
Me: *sends absolutely harmless message to group chat*
*not even 10 seconds later*
Me: I CAN FEEL THEIR JUDGING LOOKS THROUGH THE SCREEN.
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Nothing makes me feel more invisible than when nobody moves aside for you when you say "excuse me" on public transportation
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anxiety culture is getting annoyed when people use anxiety as a noun or use it as a replacement for nervous
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I've decided to call my anxiety Casey
Anxiety: something's wrong over there. Go check.
Me: nothings wrong, it's very unlikely this thing has occurred.
Anxiety: it doesn't hurt to go look
Me: ugh fiiiine, I'll go check it out
*checks*
Me: 'kay see? Nothing's wrong here
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Idk man I might get torn to shreds for saying this, but I simply cannot understand the new trend, particularly among younger internet users, where people write a laundry list of their triggers in their bio and then expect everyone to read and cater to said list on a PUBLIC PLATFORM.
This is the same mentality that drives people to attack appropriately tagged fics on AO3 for having x y or z content because “How dare you post this when I have trauma about this???” Obviously if someone is going to write a super heavy and highly sensitive fic and NOT tag it properly, they ought to be called out on it. But this isn’t about that, it’s about the people who don’t curate their own content, it’s about the people who enter public spaces and demand that the general public cater to THEM specifically.
Additionally: Listing out your triggers for everyone to see is just ASKING for trolls to come into your inbox and flood you with triggering content. (Unfortunately, as much as we would like to believe otherwise, the internet is full of selfish jerks who don’t give a crap about anybody’s trauma.) Not only this, but the algorithm does not read your bio. The algorithm does not care about your triggers unless YOU make sure to block specific tags and content.
YOU are responsible for curating your own content, and nobody else.
Obviously this is not to say people shouldn’t try to tag their posts for common triggers, because that’s the common courtesy thing to do. But if Becky has a phobia of bees, it is on her to block that tag and curate her feed around it, and she does not get the exclusive right to suddenly demand that nobody talk about bees within a ten mile radius of her. If Alec has a phobia of dogs, then it is well within his right to avoid contact with them, but he doesn’t get to go to a public park and yell at anybody who brings their dog there. It is his responsibility to know his own limits and seek out parks that are dog-free. (If someone brings a dog to a dog-free area, that’s a whole different issue that I won’t be getting into rn but yes, the person who does that is in the wrong there.)
The internet is widely a public space. If you want to create a safe space completely and utterly free of your specific triggers, you have to put the work in to make that space for yourself. You don’t get to ask other internet strangers to do it for you.
I’m saying this out of genuine concern (and admittedly, frustration) because there are so many young teens in fandom nowadays who don’t understand this, and they end up putting themselves in extremely vulnerable and even downright dangerous situations because they don’t understand that putting your well-being in the hands of a stranger is a terrible idea.
Please be safe, and for the love of all that is holy, be reasonable. Curating your content yourself is just as much a protection for you as it is a vital key that allows public communities to function.
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Anxiety Culture is stressing and stressing, stressing because you tried your hardest, stressing because you felt like you didn't, stressing because your absolutely sure, stressing because what if your wrong
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"hey i'm so sorry for not replying, i must've missed your email" is just so much easier to write and understand than "hey so my adhd object impermanence made me forget that your email even existed, then my social anxiety made me worry you would hate me if i replied now, and my avpd was telling me to just ignore you cause you probably don't like me anyway and i’m terrified of the rejection that might follow and honestly it's a miracle that i'm even replying now so haha i'm doing great, anyways here's the one sentence response that literally took me three months to send"
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