#because you really cant be condescending to sad teenagers and like. expect them to listen to you | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

zamalie · 3 years ago

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thinking about that period ~2014 or so when everyone like, over night switched from “hehe we’re sooo much better than boomers, we make self deprecating jokes” to “wowwww you still base your personality off self deprecating jokes? go to therapy”. Which on its surface is a good thing, but I think people went about it very very poorly

#suicide mention/#in tags probably #yeah but i was a young sad teen at the time and the posts people were making back then...#they didnt inspire me to treat myself kindly #they pissed me off and made me feel alienated and i wanted to dig myself deeper into that pit out of spite #because you really cant be condescending to sad teenagers and like. expect them to listen to you #especially since it spurred this trend of like. Wholesome Memes that were very obviously just old self deprecation/suicide jokes reskinned #like all that shit with 'oh youre making other feel bad about themselves. youre not helping yourself. you need therapy go to therapy instead #combined with 90 posts in a row of 'me when i love my friends and am feeling great! *samoyed surrounded by heart emojis*'#straight up. exactly the same energy as corporations attempting to appeal to me #when kids @ that age are upset they dont wanna hear that shit. they wont even try. they want someone to acknowledge that theyre hurt #and i felt like everyone was telling me that it was BAD to feel hurt. that i should ignore it for the comfort of followers i didnt have #and like i was 15 at the oldest. therapy was not even on the fucking table for me. and trust me when i say i was trying #i think people are better about it nowadays #self help posts are definitely framed more like #'hey i get that things suck right now so make the most of the small things in life that make you happy-#-if theyre keeping you going they arent as small as you think'#instead of like 'Oh. youre STILL sad? we dont wanna see that anymore. quit being a weirdo online'#but that kind of brings me to the point where. i dont blame people for handling this imperfectly #because everyone was a fucking sad kid back then just. trying to make themselves and each other feel better #wasnt their fault they were bad @ it. rly wasnt their fucking job #but still sometimes when i see a post that makes me feel a bit better today #i cant help but be. a little bitter about it #like where was this when I REALLY needed it.#why did everyone treat my suciidal ideation like a passing trend when they couldve been saying this instead #but. i mean i know WHY. i just explained why #its just like dumb irrational bitterness and it isnt anyones fault #my god i wish i knew how to speak concisely #dottxt #negativity

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