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The official Lemmy account of the hit R&B trio Tony! Toni! Toné!
hunter2
Subbed because I’d like to know, too
I routinely have to tell people to be more blunt with me; it seems like I’m always getting in trouble or yelled at or whatever for not picking up on their apparently obvious hints. No, fam, you have to use your words… just like you taught me when I was a kid.
Besides the overall “TikTok Psychology” vibe she exudes — which is extremely off-putting since so many people claim autism now or casually use phrases like “OMG I’m so autistic” because of what they see on TikTok, which in turn minimizes our struggle — she also has an understanding of the terms “ego” and “ego death” that is extremely basic and pedestrian, but she attempts to come across as well-learned in the area. If she would instead present her ideas as just that, her ideas, it would be a lot easier to hear her points.
That said, I find myself agreeing with her central point: masking is exhausting. But exhaustion and masking are not “ego death”.
Oh, yeah, totally. They’ll hijack a conversation and steer it to something else if they sense the rest of the group is also fading in attention.
For me, getting diagnosed as an adult was more about closure
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