LEP 12.1.

[yvannairie]

Seeing a post with an addition I made years ago circling and people actively in the comments misquoting the addition is like a new level of "how dare you say we piss on the poor"

Did. Did you read what I wrote? Or did you just decide that because you're apparently worse at restraint than I am, it must mean that I'm lying about ever having exercised restraint?

EDIT and the conflation of "talking about your bitchy feelings" and "being fine thinking bitchy feelings" too, like... This was such an unforced mistake. You really just had a bone to pick with the idea that some of us have internal ways of coping with that shit lmao. What, you're gonna take my OCD card away next because I don't find verbalising my issues relieving but rather enforcing a pattern?

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[palominocorn]

Oh man, did the "how dare you suggest mental illness can be managed" crew strike again? I'm sorry, it's frustrating.

[yvannairie]

It's not even that. The addition was me copying tags from Red that said that if you try your level best to never gossip, you don't build a habit of it. And people just completely disregarded the part where ne said "try" and "attempt" and took it as a declarative statement about how it's ~morally superior~ to not gossip rather than it being good mental hygiene if you never build a habit of complaining about people and talking behind their backs.

Y'know. Which I can cosign because I do not ever fucking feel tempted to bitch about any individual person by name because I taught myself that that's inappropriate and will channel my frustration in other ways.

[palominocorn]

Oh good GRIEF, it's the "everything is a moral imperative" people instead.

I've been lucky to avoid this particular discussion point, but I remember the brushing your teeth discourse and I shudder at what it must've been like.