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Old Dec 23, 2024, 09:27 AM
Cantholdmyrage Cantholdmyrage is offline
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People think I’m so weird because I bring up conversations that are months to years old and they get mad and make fun of me and call me names.

They call me “attention seeking”, “drama hungry”, a loser, “too sensitive”, etc. They think everything I do and say causes problems for them, and it makes me feel horrible about myself.

What’s worse is that they try to reassure that they don’t hate me yet they act so passive aggressive and ignorant to me that it makes me think otherwise. They’re also hypocrites, they justify all the things I do that make them uncomfortable, yet when I do the same, they don’t like it and they’ll tell me to get therapy or get a life or stop getting so offended all the time.

Here are the responses they gave me:

“Why are you dredging on for us? Time and place matters. Even if they choose to ignore you, you’re still notifying them and you’re dragging them back into things they don’t want to be in.”

“Time and place are also context though. You could roughly define context as everything that's relevant to the thing you're talking about.

An active discussion that's fresh on people's minds is more relevant than a long dead discussion that people probably already forgot.

The purposes of responding with a comment to something are mainly either

1 to inform someone of something (sharing information)
2 to give your opinion and get responses from others
3 ask someone something or get someone to engage with you
For 1, if it is regarding an opinion, there is usually no need to inform someone of something unless the information is objective.
For 2, if a post is long dead then you will have very very few people actually seeing the post so it's kind of pointless
For 3, if it has indeed been months or even years then the person will likely have forgotten whatever they wrote about or they will view the topic as irrelevant because they have long moved on and again it is pointless”

“Get a journal. Or start a podcast or a blog or something. If you need to spill yourself into other people's spaces, you gotta be prepared that they ain't gonna want to entertain whatever it is you're bothered by. Because now THEY are bothered. And they need to spill it back at you, same way you do.”

“You sort of made it our business when you posted this.”
Thanks for this!
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