I miss genuine passion. As an autistic individual, when I'm alone, sometimes I cannot contain myself with how things make me feel. The music I listen to, the video games I play, the books I read. I almost feel the need to run through the house and scream in everyone's face how I'm feeling. It feels good to love intensely. Now, I won't pretend like autistic people haven't been bullied for this since the dawn of time, but there is surely a noticeable lack of passion in everything these days.
"I spent most of my time [on Tumblr] when I first discovered it a little over a decade ago... talking about how much I loved whatever fandom I was in at the time and having genuine and memorable interactions with like-minded individuals who felt the same way I do. Now, you have two options: if you hate media, you rip it to shreds, and if you love it, you word-salad it to death and parrot a joke about it that someone else said."
Which is funny cause tumblr has always been like that depending on what part you're on. A decade ago I still remember coming superwholock stuff and crazy fandoms.
But again I think this is a thing with the younger generation. I feel like people are bit more open now compared to when I was a kid because Gen X's "too cool for school" or showing genuine emotion and excitement was deemed uncool. They liking acting above everything but secretly were celebrating behind closed doors so it's funny Ethel saying a similar-ish thing happening again.
I spent a lot of time this summer doing volunteer work and interacting with people in their early 20s and it’s really interesting to watch them label everything as cringe and complain about doing emotional labour if their friends/coworkers/professors share anything with them. But they also talk endlessly about being conscientious of other people in various ways so it’s a strange dichotomy
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Which is funny cause tumblr has always been like that depending on what part you're on. A decade ago I still remember coming superwholock stuff and crazy fandoms.
But again I think this is a thing with the younger generation. I feel like people are bit more open now compared to when I was a kid because Gen X's "too cool for school" or showing genuine emotion and excitement was deemed uncool. They liking acting above everything but secretly were celebrating behind closed doors so it's funny Ethel saying a similar-ish thing happening again.
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it's legally her surname, but idt she was born with it
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