NyticusWhat long-standing tradition, ritual, habit .etc have you finally parted from?
What long-standing tradition, ritual, habit .etc have you...
Masking; I dropped my facade in October and have been working on finding my true self.
davelEDIT: Multiple people asked me to clarify that OC may be speaking to neurodivergent/autistic masking rather than COVID masking.
Wearing a respirator (not a cloth/surgical mask) in public is my true self. The self who takes airborne diseases, my health, and more importantly the health of others seriously. The self who knows that COVID-19 & long COVID aren’t over and that measles is back thanks to anti-vaxxers and prohibitively expensive healthcare. The one who still follows Violet Blue’s weekly updates.
I’m pretty sure they weren’t talking about medical masks, so this is honestly an inappropriate response.
Most likely OC is talking about surgical/medical masks, which are inadequate for COVID-19, though better than nothing.
No, they most likely aren’t. Since they’re explicitly talking about “dropping their facade” and “finding their true self”, they’re most likely talking about autistic masking - you know, the kind of masking where you put on a facade and not behave like your true self.
At best your comments are unrelated rants, at worst you’re coming off like a real jerk right now.
Oh, maybe, but you’d be surprised how many people I’ve heard speak in exactly the same terms w/r/t COVID masking.
Sure, but OC didn’t give any indication that’s the case. They shared something very personal and made themselves vulnerable. You chose to interpret it as a political message and responded in a very passive-aggressive way, instead of just asking. That’s a really shitty thing to do.
If it had occurred to me that that’s what they might be talking about, I would have asked or said nothing. I don’t know why you’re assuming bath faith.
Because I pointed this out, yet you doubled (and later tripled) down on your interpretation, and you still haven’t edited your initial comment.
Because (1) when you said, “I’m pretty sure they weren’t talking about masks in the medical sense, so this is honestly a really inappropriate response,” it still hadn’t occurred to me that it might be about autistic masking and (2) I usually don’t edit my comments in cases like this where the downthread sufficiently clarifies.
I don’t see the problem with adding an edit to the top level comment to provide clarification
It’s a simple resolution to a simple misunderstanding
Dude, get the hell out of here. Stop turning everything political.
Everything is political. Public health and neurodiversity certainly are.
Me when gravity is political
LAW of gravity? If it’s not a law in the Constitution, I don’t respect it.
Floats away
Everything’s is political but not everything people say is intended to stir up a political debate, and honestly the internet is one of the worst places to actually have a political debate.