now that i think about it. do folks with less stigmatised mental health presentations know about stress laughter. occured to me that not all folks might not understand that laughter is not always a sign of glee
Genuinely I don’t think they do.
Small trauma dump but one time after I told my parents that my friend almost fucking died the night before and is now in the hospital, they asked if they were alright and I did a little smile/giggle, and they were like “thats not funny” yea it’s not fucking funny, obviously I’m not happy rn my hands have been shaking for hours.
I also laugh whenever I’m in situations where I don’t know what to say but want to communicate that I’m still listening, and a lot of ppl interpret that as me making fun of them.















