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eye contact makes me want to crawl out of my skin

i struggle with eye contact big time and force it when i’m at work so as not to seem rude, but i have to break it constantly before i explode. even if someone is pretty to look at :( i can usually only do it with my closest friends. it makes me very sad because i enjoy connecting and interacting with people sometimes i just wish our eyeballs didn’t have to telepathically kiss when we do it. i like how cats slow blink at you as a way to break eye contact bc they Know. so strangers will not be getting a single eyeball from me.

@deardoveswings

Aug 8, 2024

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Noticing someone is being weird about eye contact

you see they’re looking at you but maybe they’re not blinking and suddenly you feel like they are wanting 100% eye contact don’t even glance once kinda thing and you’re like whoa man that’s a little heavy but you’re scared that if you look away you will have lost the battle but now you can’t focus on what you were talking about because you’re remembering that this might be a symptom of autism and that would be wild but it seems like everyone’s kinda claiming autism now and maybe it would be chill and you could find some community through that and you unlock a new confidence and start not making eye contact as a point you’re trying to prove now about self acceptance

@mitch

Feb 9, 2024

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eye contact

I'm generally just very curious as to who everyone is and so I usually always look unless I'm distracted. It blows my mind when people can walk down the street and not look (not in a bad way, i just could never)

@trev

Aug 8, 2024

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NOT MASKING YOUR BAD BEHAVIOR WITH THERAPY TERMINOLOGY

My friend today asked me an amazing question. He said, “Do you think the avoidance thing is specific to our generation or LA specific? Like is someone in Arkansas thinking about anxiety?” Obviously yes someone in Arkansas is thinking of anxiety haha but it made me really think. Our generation is HORRIBLE (me included) at facing shit and taking accountability. It’s all masked underneath this ”therapy talk” shit. Hear me out. Let’s say you have a friend and you’re feeling conflict/tension with them. After a few weeks of them being mean, you confront them about it. They’re passive and not addressing their actions. We would INSTANTLY write them off as “AVOIDANT” versus “A friend who’s hurting me by being shitty even if they don’t intend to.” And yes, that friend is being “avoidant”. But, that’s a simple write off for behavior. Behavior has been so quickly written off to fit into this Therapy Talk. Here’s another example: A girl who really likes someone is attaching to them quickly because she’s excited to get to know them and is having so much fun, she’s moving faster than usually and trying to rush commitment. Society would consider her “Anxiously attached” versus “This girl is really into this person and it’s shifting her choices and actions.“ I think what i’m getting at is, it seems dismissive and avoidant to just simplify these big feelings and actions into these terms when in reality, yes the terms are true. But, we should probably be making space to really talk and express in full detail a persons actions including our own, and get to the bottom of it. The categories can be apart of the larger narrative, but they arent the full reasoning. I hope this made sense lol

@courtnipoe

Nov 27, 2024

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SELF CONTROL WHEN TIPSY

I won't text my crush a voice note risking it all. I won't text my crush a voice note risking it all. I won't text my crush a voice note risking it all. I won't text my crush a voice note risking it all. I won't text my crush a voice note risking it all. I won't text my crush a voice note risking it all. I won't text my crush a voice note risking it all. I won't text my crush a voice note risking it all. I won't text my crush a voice note risking it all. I won't text my crush a voice note risking it all. I won't text my crush a voice note risking it all. I won't text my crush a voice note risking it all. I won't text my crush a voice note risking it all. I won't text my crush a voice note risking it all. I won't text my crush a voice note risking it all.

@courtnipoe

Apr 26, 2025

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leaving

anything and everything anytime whenever planned or not

@courtnipoe

Mar 9, 2025