Gay😇IRL - Lemmy.World

I prefer the terms hetero and cishets

My trick is I don’t let what people call me bother me. I was raised with the old saying “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me”.

Hate to break it to you, but words do hurt people and you’re not special because you can repress the feelings.

Or you literally don’t have them and are a sociopath.

But they do affect you in some way, you’re just privileged/tone deaf enough to never have the right ones aimed at you.

Or you realise that the people insulting you are brain dead and not worth the energy is takes to process their sound waves.

When ive seen what makes them cheer, why would their opinion have any effect on me?

This. Exactly what I am getting at. It’s not worth your energy to get upset over people who trying to bring YOU as an individual down by simply calling you names.