i've just deleted my first anonymous "part 3??" message (probably referring to there's magic in this misery) and i've gotta say, i thought we'd moved on from doing that.
firstly, writing takes as long as it takes. be cool, don't send me those kinds of messages. it demoralises the fuck out of me. conversely, you might just find that if you're nicer to me it will inspire me to pick up a project i'd put on the backburner.
secondly, anon is turned on for my askbox as a privilege, not a right. don't make me turn off my askbox because you can't be polite. there are some very nice anons that i've enjoyed replying to and i want you to be part of that! don't spoil it for other people.
and finally, we've done this already with other writers in the fandom and they've expressed how disappointed and demoralised they get! i genuinely want to write stuff and share it with you all! just be patient please.
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Some days I remember how much progress I've made with my mental health because I have to consciously choose to react to something differently than my gut impulse.
It wasn't until the past several years that I was able to see that someone else's intense emotions or someone just expressing a need or want made me incredibly uncomfortable to the point that I wanted immediately eject myself from the situation.
And I'm talking about, like... my dog expressing excitement at getting a treat would make me very very uncomfortable. A friend crying with happiness would make me super uncomfortable. Someone expressing anger initiates my flight or fight response - that's the most intense gut reaction I have.
And like, I knew all of this but it wasn't until recently that I could really see WHY I felt that way and start working on moving past the discomfort so that I could try to make these experiences feel familiar and safe instead of scary and uncomfortable. During 2020 when I was mostly isolated from other people due to covid, I had a lot of relief from a lot of mental health related stuff, and this was one of them. I got to a point that instead of feeling uncomfortable with normal emotions and keeping it all at arm's length, I was able to feel safe enough to just like, embrace it instead. And it's made such a huge difference. I think being medicated for ADHD has helped a ton with emotional regulation too, but working through the trauma responses I have to normal stuff takes extra effort.
So anyway, all of this is to say that I just pulled out the plain yogurt tub to drop a bit into my dogs' food bowls and they were both dancing with excitement. Even though that's not been a problem for a while now, for some reason I did get that initial reaction of "Oh no, too much emotion, discomfort!" so I paused... and then made the decision to act excited with them and amp up their excitement just a bit more. And I did enjoy it and it made me happy to see them express excitement once I was joining in!
And it strikes me that my reaction to that years ago would have been to kind of shut down and glaze over to distance myself from that feeling of "Oh fuck too much emotion in my vicinity" but I was able to recognize it today and go "I'm safe, they can be excited and I can even be excited with them". 😊
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