OH MAN I WONDER WHERE THEY LEARNED THAT FROM
Maybe the generation before them had a nasty habit of pathologizing every little imperfection they had so they could get out of doing stuff too! Wow, that’s amazing! Those two things might just be related!
It’s just people pathologizing their stupid quirks and dysfunctions so they don’t have to work on them and improve them.
Much easier to just watch more Rick and Morty and play more fucking Switch.
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@fishsticks @Owl @PraxisOfEvil teens want something to be wrong with them because they think it makes them quirky, and then it becomes an actual problem for them. i have seen so many fucking people get actually depressed because they made depression their aesthetic.
my roommate's sister was actually upset that nothing was weird with her and so she was self-diagnosing herself with all sorts of shit, and even told him that she wished she had his physical deformity. that's pretty fucked up.
Kids these days find validation not in strength, but in deformity.
We taught them that. Of course this is what happens when you make a society hate concepts like strength and meritocracy, people will find ways to game the system through weakness instead.
@Owl @fishsticks @PraxisOfEvil I find it ridiculous because I'm like, actually pretty fucked up but I've still tried my best to not make excuses for myself whenever possible. Kids are taught that being different makes you special and so they fight to see who can be the most different so that they can be special. The snowflake thing, you know.
I honestly don't know how I turned out the way I did with all of that shit that was shoved down my throat. Maybe I got fed too much and puked it all up.
