Mine is coffee. As of today, my coffee drinking days are over. I’ve had been drinking coffee for what feels like 14 some odd years. I used to have, on average, 2 ~ 4 mugs and on some days where I just pushed myself, 6 mugs. I would always have my coffee coupled with powdered creamer because I can never drink coffee straight.
However and for the past 4 years now, I’ve been noticing some health issues with it both mentally and physically. Mentally, I’ve noticed my anxiety is driven up the wall after having had coffee. Physically, I could not stop going to the bathroom to piss, for coffee accelerates your need to go to the bathroom since it is also a laxative.
And also in turn, kept interrupting my naps and times where I had a nice string of hours to sleep to. A few weeks back, I had thought that it was maybe the usual caffeine-based coffee grounds that was causing it. So I discarded them. I went to Decaf because I felt I wasn’t just ready to discard coffee entirely. But since the same stuff is happening again with even Decaf, even when trying to be more moderate about my intake, I’ve officially tapped out.
I’m going to miss it, all the times where when I was in a place of solitude and a nice warm mug of joe added to the feeling, helped make things feel right. And all the times when coffee actually did help me, but I guess I just over-indulged and spoiled badly what was.
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 if I may say, you interpreted it deliberately in a really unlikely way - especially this long after the pandemic, and consequently wearing masks, have been out of the publics mind) 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