I am not a fan of this culture of identifying yourself by your problems.
Making a problem your identity just errodes all the great things about the individual. Being an amputee isn't a personality, and neither is being depressed or having anxiety. People are bigger than that, they have individual interests, skills, and virtues that are much healthier to identify by.
I think of myself as a friend, a technologically inclined person, an athletic person, a smart person, a person who loves games and octopuses, etc.
I might also have some of the traits or feelings in this infographic, but they aren't me. They are problems that I, the cool techy athletic animal lover, am solving.
Play your strengths, fix your weekenesses. Don't make your biggest problem into your middle name.
11 Comments
Lena@piefed.zip · 13 pts · 223d
Well, it's more like a bingo card for me
sausager@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 223d
i put on my robe and wizard hat
Eheran@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 223d
Wholesome? All of them have a negative side. Can I not just be good? Does there have to be some bad thing?
aport@programming.dev · 9 pts · 223d
To me it's saying it's "okay to not be okay" and as such there's nothing negative about it.
wuphysics87@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 223d
Off to get a snacky snack?
Eheran@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 223d
Okay that one gets a pass.
sakuraba@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 223d
all of them at the same time
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 223d
I have been told by the blood takers I'm always dehydrated.
meekah@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 223d
Sounds like from some kinda fantasy novel
djdarren@piefed.social · 3 pts · 223d
Cant I be all of them?
busyboredom@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 223d
I am not a fan of this culture of identifying yourself by your problems.
Making a problem your identity just errodes all the great things about the individual. Being an amputee isn't a personality, and neither is being depressed or having anxiety. People are bigger than that, they have individual interests, skills, and virtues that are much healthier to identify by.
I think of myself as a friend, a technologically inclined person, an athletic person, a smart person, a person who loves games and octopuses, etc.
I might also have some of the traits or feelings in this infographic, but they aren't me. They are problems that I, the cool techy athletic animal lover, am solving.
Play your strengths, fix your weekenesses. Don't make your biggest problem into your middle name.