Decided it was time to update the blurb on my journal's sidebar now that I'm able to move past my worry sometimes. (But not enough that I'm not still waiting desperately for comments on certain entries...)
Anyway, the blurb was previously:
Ever since what I've taken to calling "the Forbidden Comment Threads", which were arguments in
asperger that happened in 2011, I've been afraid that everything I say on LJ could easily be misinterpreted and make everyone hate me and that the threads themselves would eventually get so out of hand that everyone who had an opinion about them would automatically hate anyone with a different opinion.
Thankfully, that has yet to actually happen... but more recently (2014), I discovered a DIFFERENT set of arguments (I'll call them "the Forbidden Comment Threads Ω" for now, despite the existence of a term for them already) that appear to be much more widespread and seem to ALREADY be exactly what I thought the "original" Forbidden Comment Threads would become... O___O
Basically, I'm just a guy who's lately been feeling that ANYTHING he says about ANYTHING could easily become controversial...
And since it's been a while since I've read Square Root of Minus Garfield, I decided to change some of the text in my journal style to reference this instead. :)
Yay for a tiny bit of productivity on LiveJournal! And yay for a public entry!
Anyway, the blurb was previously:
Ever since what I've taken to calling "the Forbidden Comment Threads", which were arguments in
asperger that happened in 2011, I've been afraid that everything I say on LJ could easily be misinterpreted and make everyone hate me and that the threads themselves would eventually get so out of hand that everyone who had an opinion about them would automatically hate anyone with a different opinion.Thankfully, that has yet to actually happen... but more recently (2014), I discovered a DIFFERENT set of arguments (I'll call them "the Forbidden Comment Threads Ω" for now, despite the existence of a term for them already) that appear to be much more widespread and seem to ALREADY be exactly what I thought the "original" Forbidden Comment Threads would become... O___O
Basically, I'm just a guy who's lately been feeling that ANYTHING he says about ANYTHING could easily become controversial...
And since it's been a while since I've read Square Root of Minus Garfield, I decided to change some of the text in my journal style to reference this instead. :)
Yay for a tiny bit of productivity on LiveJournal! And yay for a public entry!
- Right now I am annoyingly:productive
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- 4 Sep 2020, 20:21They probably won't be mandatory forever, but you still have to wear them.
I thought I told you that I DO wear a mask whenever I am required to or am told to. Why are you acting like I don't?… - 2 Sep 2020, 17:54Looking back at the Spanish Flu pandemic, it obviously wasn't like that forever. I don't know if people had problems with being able to adjust.
They probably won't be mandatory forever, but you… - 2 Sep 2020, 13:42well before the pandemic, youre supposed to wash your hands before you eat, and after youve been to the toilet. Or if youve got something on your hands. Thats all.
With the pandemic, its an add on… - 2 Sep 2020, 07:07Even before this pandemic I've tried to wash my hands whenever I needed to - but I've never been sure if I'm doing so well enough or often enough. :(
- 2 Sep 2020, 06:59but this is now our new normal.
As I said to arcadia30 above, I'm tired of hearing "new normal" because it implies that it will be like this forever and/or that I'm a bad person for being unable to…
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I'd hate to have to keep asking the same question too many times, but did you ever see this entry (January 2), this entry (May 31), or this entry (yesterday)? The fact that only
I know I update a lot myself, but I consistently get comments on Blogthings entries these days, mainly from
I understand. I'm not asking for everyone in my friends list to comment on every entry I've made (not even just for every entry this year, even though I haven't posted that often lately).
It's just that (as I said in the entry yesterday and the May entry - and in the May entry, I detailed new reasons why I feel this way), I still worry that the Forbidden Comment Threads have slowly and indirectly, but surely, been making me a misogynist for the past 3½ years...
P_A's comment on the May entry helped me feel better about it... kind of.
I have considered joining communities like
Your worrying about the Forbidden Comment Threads just makes you want to improve yourself, in a way. If you didn't worry about it years later (given that they are significant to you), I'd be wondering whether you even realized the effects of those on you and others! Since you do, that's good.
I'm glad.
Those come up as valid communities on my computer when I clicked the links, so the links are good! :)
:) Of course I don't mind receiving comments either - I just didn't want to sound like I was demanding hundreds of comments or something. (Lately that's what I think I sound like every time I ask for comments on any specific entry...)
Your worrying about the Forbidden Comment Threads just makes you want to improve yourself, in a way. If you didn't worry about it years later (given that they are significant to you), I'd be wondering whether you even realized the effects of those on you and others! Since you do, that's good.
:)
:)
I definitely don't have a rule like that (I've never even done a friends cut in the 6½ years since I first started being active on LJ or the 8 years I've even been on LJ at all), so I certainly hope I've never sounded like I had such a rule. If I ever did sound that way, I apologize. :(