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[smartass-kid]

i just finished reading Boo by Neil Smith and i am so so tender right now... i am too overwhelmed to cry

[smartass-kid]

my boyfriend’s mom is passionately ranting to me about her hatred of vaccines — she’s clearly waited for this moment; for someone willing to sit through it — and... how did i get here. how can i get us out of this

i also didn’t have enough evidence or rhetorical skill to expose the failed logic of the anti-vax movement, so i don’t feel like i did enough. i was too passive.

and yet it would be tactless to be aggressive, since she thinks her dead mother’s cause of death — declared lupus — was actually vaccines. it’s an issue that is close to her heart — really the closest you can get: the death of your mother.

my boyfriend understands and respects the science of vaccines and does not think like his mother so at least i’m not alone in this. but like.

[smartass-kid]

If I had the executive stamina to contact suitable therapists, the self-respect to determine whether they’re the right match for me, and enough confidence in my own decisions to do something about it... maybe I simply wouldn’t need a therapist!

[smartass-kid]

i'm wondering if i'm stunting myself by continuing to live in my hometown, and potentially with my parents

[smartass-kid]

About the “no worries” memes...

When I say, “No worries,” in an email, I truly mean that whatever happened is not a big deal, I and don’t, in fact, want the addressee to worry themselves silly over it. I certainly wasn’t losing sleep over it.

The passive aggression that supposedly surrounds “no worries” is one of the many reasons why corporate-speak — and networking in general — is so psychologically exhausting for many. Professional communication is rife with perfunctory gestures and confusing social cues. Job hunting and networking experiences feel like tests of social etiquette: one has to parse and participate in delicate exchanges during which people rarely say what they mean; in fact, they may say the opposite.

I can only imagine how frustrating these exchanges must be for people with Autism or Asperger’s, for whom understanding and parroting arbitrary social norms is especially difficult.

[smartass-kid]

honestly i do not feel that i have enough confidence to have a job with a lot of responsibilities right now. it’s a little freeing to finally admit it

[smartass-kid]

i would respect myself more if i were funnier

[smartass-kid]

during one of the first — if not the first — times I ever hung out with my current bf of ~2 years, he asked me why I didn’t like trump, and I said “because I think he’s a threat to public health”