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Re:Facebook Announces Meta Verified by LoganDark on Monday February 20, 2023 @05:14AM (#34866794)
Well, I'm autistic and have ADHD bad enough that my body will not even respond to my attempts to move sometimes. There are a million reasons for me to be unhappy with it, feel trapped and isolated inside my own head, want to escape/avoid reality, and choose to do so through fantasy. But it doesn't change the fact that I honestly identify this way now, no matter how I got here. I think explaining it away as some syndrome or illness is a bit minimizing. My identity is important to me.
Re:Facebook Announces Meta Verified by zpeti on Monday February 20, 2023 @05:46AM (#34866968)
Almost everyone finds ways to cope with the issues of life, or the traumas of childhood, whether that's extreme sports, or alcohol, or however you've been able to cope. As I said in my first post, that's fine, everyone has to find a way, and we shouldn't judge each other.

Except when your coping mechanism has negative implications for other people. As soon as you are forcing others or damaging them (note: easy to see how that works with alcohol for example), then it's not ok. Find a way to cope, fine. Just don't expect me to play along with it (we have interventions for alcoholics for a reason).

Re:Facebook Announces Meta Verified by LoganDark on Monday February 20, 2023 @05:53AM (#34867012)
> Except when your coping mechanism has negative implications for other people.

What are you implying? Does not wanting to link my accounts to a real-life body have negative implications somehow?