I’ve treated Lemmy as a fun, silly blog since I made my account. I love how you can freely post anywhere and as much as you like, unlike on Reddit. I’m also a teen who grew up online with unrestricted internet access and does online school, so I’m a bit addicted to being online. I love how much more interactive the comments feel here, despite it being a smaller platform. I’ve had fun reading and interacting with people. But I think I might delete my account and everything, because people analyzing my behavior and accusing me of things has started to get to me. Most recently, someone accused me of trying to manipulate people because of my age and gender. All I wanted to do was make people feel some fun and giggles. I’m wondering if you’ve ever felt something similar.

  • angrystego@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I have this trait irl. It’s good to know about it and even better to try to regulate it, because it makes life seem so much worse than it really is. I can see there are people who don’t have it this way and who just forget all the bad stuff almost immediately - must be nice.

    • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      I’m just asking out of curiosity: why do you think you care so much about the negative comments?

      I am one of those people that shrug it off, and if I were to try to rationalize my emotional armor, I’d say that the places these matters of taste and disagreement come from, like psychologically, are often not you’re own fault and wouldn’t really be fixable even if you tried.

      But, I wonder if that might be missing the mark. The futility of trying to appease people who are unappeasable might actually have nothing to do with it.

      • angrystego@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Not just comments, negative things in general. I think in my case it’s connected to a hereditary predisposition to depression and anxiety. The bad stuff makes a large impact and the good stuf just doesn’t seem to produce any neural pathways. It’s physiological. Some of my family got much better with modern antidepresants. I went a different way and I’m ok now as well, it took decades though.