#iq fucking means nothing if ur dumb as hell like me

[pup-pee]

kon on the practive whiteboard,,,,,save me save me pls

[aikainkauna]

If it’s worth saying, say it clearly

Maybe I would have reblogged your post if you had actually taken the time to punctuate and to capitalise it properly, so that I could actually make out what the fuck you even meant the first time? Instead of having to go back and re-parse every single lowercased proper name (to realise it was a Field and not a field you were talking about), and having to mentally insert commas everywhere to separate the different statements and thoughts involved? Maybe I don’t like the fact that you’re demanding all this work of me as a reader, the fact that I have to de-code your every message simply because you were being lazy and/or trying to be hip?

There are reasons why capitalisation and punctuation rules exist. They’re there to make your text intelligible. And if that word’s too oppressive and difficult for you to understand, it means “understandable.”

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Just because we’re scatterbrained creatures, it doesn’t mean everyone’s textual output has to be like that. Written language and spoken/thought language are vastly different, and wonderfully so because text allows you to be far more coherent than your thoughts or spoken words might ever be. Few people are eloquent speakers, but it’s *much* easier to get your point across in textual form, because it allows you time to think and to compose what you’re saying. But when you’re just throwing yourself to the mercies of scatterbrained, panicked, insecure and immature text-messagey typing, that’s how you come across: young and dumb and insecure, and at worst, really relishing that and wallowing in that.

It’s crazy how people don’t realise just how much you can tell about someone on the basis of their typing. For a generation that’s so obsessed with identifying as anything except girls and going on so much about how to combat anxiety and how to be strong, Tumblr sure types like a bunch of giggling, nervous, scatterbrained, anxious girls. When you could look much more confident and grown-up and sensible--and, moreover, and *feel* more confident and less anxious--if you formatted your output in a more coherent way. Every “lol” used as punctuation just casts off 20 IQ points and, at worst, signals to a sociopath that this person can be used, walked over, exploited. That they’re not secure in themselves and their opinions because they express them in this floaty, scattered, nervously laughing way.

And it’s as characteristic of female socialisation as can be, the entire Tumblr style of typing--don’t be “threatening” by using capital letters and therefore sounding like a teacher! Leave in plenty of gaps (omitted full stops, excessive paragraph breaks) so someone can interrupt you! Don’t be selfish! Always self-sacrifice, never stand up for yourself, always placate, always give in! It’s the language of giving in and of weakness, like a dog rolling over to expose its belly. “Look! I’m harmless!”, the typing style is screaming even if the message is about something serious and making a point that really *should* be listened to. But it’s formatted as something that can be easily dismissed, because, hey, it’s in a squeaky lowercase voice and said breathlessly with a nervous giggle at the end.

I’ve literally seen a woman say “i found my husband dead in the hallway LOL.” Seriously. What the fuck?!?

And conversely, the whole trend needlessly casts those of us who still give a shit about grammar and capitalisation and punctuation as some authoritarian monsters because shitty spelling is apparently “woke” (ok, if you really do want to create yet more pointless division and to turn even more sensible/moderate people into conservatives). No, it’s not “woke” to send out a garbled message. It just broadcasts a scattered confusion. To be really effective, you have to say things straight and to the point. And that’s why right-wing populists are so popular--because they formulate their statements in a way that seem to make sense, while liberals start to meander away and get stuck wanking over whatever the latest politically correct terms are, while the audience’s already turned to the Nazis because they understand “lower taxes” but don’t know what the fuck [term du jour] means. Clarity has nothing whatsoever to do with pretentiousness, but it has everything to do with getting your message across.

TL;DR You have a huge amount of power over how you come across in text. Enormous power. And with it, you can also *exercise* power. Coherent spelling and writing is empowerment; trying to sound all casual and hip and laughing is literally giving up that power for the sake of assumed friendliness. But it’s no longer friendliness or casualness when it becomes enforced like that, and just perpetuates a general culture of that rolling over. If you’re *genuinely* worried you’re going to sound stuck-up or pompous by observing proper spelling and punctuation, you need to take a long hard look at yourself and ask who you’re giving that confidence up for. Who are you afraid of when you put in that ‘lol’? Who are you *placating* by going along with the stream-of-consciousness style, and why are you placating them? Why do you need to do that in text, when there’s literally no need to give away the fact that you’re nervous or scatterbrained? When you can be a *better* version of yourself? And happier for it?

Who the hell are you oppressing with simple readability? No one. 

[wanttobethinlol]

What i wrote while having a breakdown

I could cry. I could fucking break someones bones! I’m angry and I think I have a good reason to be angry.

I feel like shit and I don’t know why. I just don’t know what I did wrong in my life! Maybe I did actually did something wrong and I just can’t find out what. I’m actually proud of all my decisions. I like who I am and what i have done. Yeah, I knwo, everyone has things so complain about in their lifes. But everyone is different. I appreciate what i have and what has happened to me. I’m still a human und humans always find new things to complain about. Oh, did i offended you because you’re a human? Sure, every human can be like me. Everyone has felt some kind of pain before. Everyone at least once in their life. Everyone felt something...

I’m so sick of keeping all that to myself! Yes, I am hurt. I am angry and sad. But why the fuck do I feel like this? I didnt chose to feel this. In times like those u actually realize what it means to be happy. But we are unappreciative as fuck and we know NOTHING! We only care about ourselves! Why don’t I just pretend like I don’t know this by distraction like everyone does and constantly tell everyone to do this when they don’t feel good? People believed it. I was trying to play it off. I watched Youtube videos of a guy saying “Everyting will get better” and then people in the comments were saying “He saved my life”. I’m just thinking “Yeah, sure. Cuz u want to believe that someone who doesn’t even knows ur personality can save someones life. Anyways killing yourself is ur decision and this person wasn’t standing by the bridge begging u not to jump!”

Someone is going to say that I have no idea what I am even talking about and I’m not the right person to talk big. Someone will say that I’m always the one who wants all the attention and I lie and I’m a drama queen. “Noone likes u and noone wants to know what u think! U have no real friends cuz u’re annoying and weird.” Why do people matter wheather I have friend or not!? And there are people who don’t think I’m annoying, people who actually think I’m cool. Just cuz u’re having a problem with me does not mean u have to act like this. I didn’t piss in ur drink, I’m not ur ex which cheated on u. I’m not ur enemy and u aren’t mine either! I’m not someone to just look at. I have hobbies and interests. But I’m sorry that I can’t press a button and be interested in what u’re into. I’m sorry for not being the way u want me to be. I’m sorry for being wrong in ur world! I’m even sorry for my emotions sometimes.

I only know three things: work, sleep and eat. Kinda sad, huh? But this is what life is about. I don’t have time for feelings anymore. I sit in class and want to scream, cry and ripp the paper. But I have to sit in silence. If I can’t write an analysis of a stups text I’m worthless, right? People just feel good after a successfull day at work. “But isn’t it actually a good thing that they found a job they think is making them happy?” - I don’t know. Why is life even being a good worker or letting the species survive? “If someone does not work well, they are bad members of society. If someone decides not to have kids or only have their own kids they are selfish, why don’t they just adopt?” It seems to me that no matter what u do, someone will complain as if it was their damn life and their decision. Why can’t everyone just live their life as they desire!? My god!

“You’re only a teenager. What do you know about life?” - I am sorry ok? I can’t say anything without someone taking it the wrong way! Why do we even divide between right and wrong? Why do we even divide anything? It already starts at young age. It seems to matter what we look like. Looks are everything. Noone will say it out loud but it is the truth. Everything has it’s name and place to belong to. What went wrong? Why did it come so far? “Real heroes don’t exist.” (I’m not going to say who said this) That would leave someone else thinking “how does this person deserve this?” I don’t want this. I don’t need intelligent quotes to prove that I’m intelligent. I don’t need to look like a nerd to be smart. I don’t have to read to prove to others that I’m smart. I don’t care what the most people think. Things such as intelligence, health, love kindness are just marterial of interpretation. I don’t need MakeUp to feel beautiful. I don’t need the latest fashion so others think I’m “cool” because I don’t want to be judged by my appereance cuz I don’t mind it myself that much so why do others? “They are insecure about themself.” Oh, of course. But what the hell has that got to do with me? And is not everyone these days insecure deep inside? Everyone has a different way to deal with their problems.

I can’t know what they feel. Sometimes I don’t know what i feel myself!! We are told that if u have a different opinion, it’s wrong. u aren’t allowed to laugh loudly i public because the people will look a u weirdly and crying in public means u’re a crybaby. Oh, i forgot, showing strong emotions is wrong and inappropiate. Let’s just play it off and pretend like everything is fine and the world is a paradise and war isn’t real. I don’t need to pretend that. I show most of my feelings. I express my opinion. I can listen and admire my thoughts or u can ignore it. I DON’T CARE. None of those will get me ahead. I don’t need anyones fake friendship so I can show others that this person is my friend.

I don’t need some flowers or chocolate from a boy to feel loved. I understand that this person just want to show me that they care about me and that they would buy me expensive things. But I don’t need chocolate and flowers. Chocolate is there to be eaten and flowers are not there to be picked. I don’t need that chocolate. I get three meals a day. I don’t need flowers to watch as they die away. The only gift I want is time. I mean I didn’t decide to became your girlfriend, just to say that I’m in a relationship. I don’t need to shout it out to the world cuz I don’t care what others will say. I just want to spend time with u. Time is a thing u only have a certain amount of und u decide how u want to spend or waste it.

U expect me to be into boys, didn’t u? I know why. Because being straight is normal. No one will ask for my sexuality because I look straight. I’m not. Why do u have to assume that? Stereotypes, am I right? U disgust me! Just because someone looks or behaves a bit gay does not mean he/she has to be gay. And don’t force anyone to out themself. (not that an outing is necessary either) I won’t tell people what to think and what not to say cuz that would be as it was in the past, just the other way around. I actually thought these times were over. I can’t fix it. I don’t think anyone can.

Our world isn’t perfect, was never perfect and will never be perfect. This should be accepted... or maybe the world is perfect the way it is right now and we arte the ones who do all the shit. Without us war, issues, society and tools wouldn’t be exist. Character trails are illusions. People compare themself to others. I was always told that this is a bad thing to do. I was told that comparing yourself to others is dumb and useless. Yes, u’re right. The human race has come so far with evolution but with higher IQs we discover new problems in our lifes. What I mean? “The WiFi is down!”, “My parents didn’t bought me the new iPhone!” -Oh no! You’re going to die because of that, right? At first those problems don’t seem pretty bad. Some people in other countrys... WAIT. Here we go again in the whole “comparing yourself to others” thing.

Who am I even to say those things? I am just some human who knows as much about life as everyone else. I honestly have no idea what I’m doing and what the future may bring. I’m not that different. I have all these problems everyone has and noone, not even I myself, is going to care about them about them in a few years. It won’t matter who “broke my heart so I can’t live anymore” -threats can’t be broken and love always will be reborn. Still love can be a strong feeling. It can make u feel high or hurt. Sadly, we don’t decide which one of both of them we feel. There is no wrong way to feel. I wish people would be more honest with what they feel and think. It’s nice to hear a simple “Thank u” or “I like u” at least once in ur life. People seem to be a bit to proud to admit what they feel sometimes, they only realize a person when he/she is gone. Yeah, it can hurt pretty bad if your crush doesn’t likes u the same way but this is not the end od the world, it just feels like it.