If you were honest with yourselves, how many of you hate having this condition?

[Jonn]

This is me. Their manipulative properganda-y go irritates me too much. It's not "news" so much as a tool for social engineering.

We are just click-bait victims, well, most of us.
"A pox on all their houses", I say.

But some of us have cultivated critical thinking skills, and can "separate the wheat from the chaff", well, usually.

If ppl weren't so gullible, these manipulators wouldn't have any power.

 

[Misty Avich]

We are just click-bait victims, well, most of us.
"A pox on all their houses", I say.

But some of us have cultivated critical thinking skills, and can "separate the wheat from the chaff", well, usually.

If ppl weren't so gullible, these manipulators wouldn't have any power.

My anxiety can make me a bit gullible, and I can sometimes lack critical thinking skills. And no, I'm not offended or anything lol, as what you said is true; many people do buy into these things.
I try to avoid the news but sometimes I do stumble on to news articles when scrolling online and it always sets my anxiety off. It's like I'm always thinking "oh if it's in the news then it must be true" and also nothing surprises me any more anyway.
At the end of 2019 I thought covid was just another scare to get the attention of the public and would just turn out to be nothing. Oh how wrong I was. So now I never know what is real and what isn't.

 

[Jonn]

I try to avoid the news but sometimes I do stumble on to news articles when scrolling online and it always sets my anxiety off. It's like I'm always thinking "oh if it's in the news then it must be true" and also nothing surprises me any more anyway.
At the end of 2019 I thought covid was just another scare to get the attention of the public and would just turn out to be nothing. Oh how wrong I was. So now I never know what is real and what isn't.

Over time, you get to know who has or hasn't credibility.
There are some media outlet, and particular ppl, that have failed the test badly, and I simply boycott them, these days.
No reason to go back to a questionable source when others have proven themselves reliable.
I am over sitting on the fence.
I don't need the splinters.

On the other hand, you find ppl with greater integrity that have been proven reliable, most of the time,at least.
I don't agree with even my best sources, from time to time, and I think it healthy.
It always amazes me how some ppl blindly believe everything some particular person says.
Groupthink is not my thing.

 

[Perpetually_confused]

I don't hate my autism, I hate the fact that it took me so long to realise and the trauma that I now have to deal with for being undiagnosed for so long especially as a female. However, I try to cope with the trauma by focusing on the benefits such as my intense hyperfocus, how easy it is for me to get into creative flow and my deep appreciation of nature and my sensitivity. Really I feel sorry for people who aren't autistic and can't experience these things. That's not to say life is easy by any means but I would not change it for being neurotypical which seems so bland to me looking from the outside, maybe it's not but it's just my impression.