trashcroissant

@trashcroissant@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a word for when someone is not capable of, or doesn't try to understand verbal communication in a language, they are fluent in similar to functionally illiterate but for speech?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would still use illiterate in that case, and would argue that is the correct term at least according to Merriam Webster:

  a : violating approved patterns of speaking or writing b : showing or marked by a lack of familiarity with language and literature

  Or even just at its most basic:

  having little or no education

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Native Americans?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’m understanding what you’re trying to ask, yes, there are a lot of people with indigenous heritage especially in California/texas/etc (places that until the Mexican-American war belonged to mexico) and they’re now considered Latino (which I think is what you mean by “Hispanic”.

  It should be noted that not all Latin American people are Hispanic (e.g. portuguese), yet many share similar cultures and looks because they are all descendents of indigenous peoples that were colonized.

  It’s happening in the US to Native Americans that they’ll be confused for “illegal aliens”(I hate this term but it’s what they call them) and they’ll have their American identity questioned, simply because they look like Mexicans or other Latin American people because, like I said, we’ve all descended from the indigenous peoples of this continent.

  Just as an FYI, many Latin American folks don’t like to be referred to ask Hispanic because a) not all are, and b) that is the name of the people that conquered us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mother told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it’s possible, but what I remember from the other post is about her calling him a loser or useless or something along those lines, so I think she’s just very controlling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mother told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have you tagged from an older post and remember your mom saying some whack ass shit in another post you made. Headphones won’t make you deaf unless you’re absolutely blasting your music at full volume.

  I hope you’re feeling better soon and not letting her shit get you down. You got this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to separate self-worth from Achievements and External Validation?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel you 100%, I have the same voice. If you want to watch something truly depressing but extremely relatable, the episode called “stupid piece of shit” from bojack horseman covers the topic in a much more real way than any cartoon has the right to do so.

  We can get through it though, the voice is a liar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to separate self-worth from Achievements and External Validation?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t… Hahaha this is one of the things I most often speak to my counsellor about though and I’m working hard on it.

  My issue is more around productivity (achievements), so what I work on is doing things for the sake of doing them, not for the final product, i.e. doing art for the process or even playing a game just to play and not for literal achievements. Learning to just enjoy things for the process or just doing ‘nothing’. They suggested I could just come home and sit and watch my cats and… Just do nothing. I’m still working on that one.

  We haven’t gotten that far into external validation, but I think learning to have compassion/love for yourself helps with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had the same experience and did feel badly for them as well. For a lot of them (especially middle aged men in my experience), they just seemed very lonely. I miss a lot of those regulars, they were generally good people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cross stitch :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And (at least for me) the most rewarding!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an anti- sleep-paralysis device?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I cant see my demon but I can sense it, just out of sight. I’m not sure which is worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an anti- sleep-paralysis device?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to get sleep paralysis all the time. For me it was because I was sleeping on my back which (according to some shit I read online a very long time ago) makes sleep paralysis more likely to occur. Haven’t had any issues since I started forcing myself to sleep on my side only.