I agree. Using the emotions of innocent people to keep a bizarre fantasy alive is honestly sickening.
People are a strange bunch.
Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Saturday, 18 January, 2025
StudChud@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
So funny how people lie, in life and on the internet. It’s not even hard to pick up on, they always get something wrong, be it their age or the timeline of events, symptoms of a disease or mental illness, their work or experience, even what they do day-to-day. Even how they talk or type.
There are so many valid reasons to lie, I certainly do. I lie to my family about being okay because I fear trauma dumping, and I’d hate for them to blame themselves.
But to lie about illness or experience? I find that so weird. I have to imagine they feel lonely or unvalued, unworthy, unless their is something “special” or “unique” about them. A desire for validation.
I find it gross when “influencers” lie about having a mental illness I have. They always get something wrong about it, the details don’t make sense, the symptoms don’t match their behaviours. They dupe the naïve into giving them money and sympathy.
Tik Tok is the worst for that shit, Facebook, IG, Xhitter, reddit too, even lemmy. Any social media platform really. It’s a performance and it shows.
/Endrant
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
can I just rant about the special/unique stuff. ( this makes me angry too )
behind that belief is a belief that everyday people are beneath them, that everyday people are inferior , not worthy
it’s not the same as recognising that individuals have personality and interests , these people who think in terms of status, in terms of superiority and inferiority, seem to lump all those they deem beneath them as the same.
I think we can all be different while still being equal in spirit.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
And yet when people show real symptoms of real mental illness, mental injury or disorder often the public has no idea what they are looking at. ( I’m not talking about meth users )
dumblederp@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I had the same issues with LiveJournal 25 years ago.
just_kitten@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Thank goodness someone said it. I was a kid/teen then but there were certain accounts that really rubbed me the wrong way, it was the nascent beginnings of the current culture linked to outrage/cancelling/extreme “sensitivity”/whatever you want to call it. So much narcissism and cult building around being “special”, duping vulnerable kids who feel misunderstood. Only later did I realise the lies.