me: [mad at myself for some inadequacy]
the giant: you know that 99% of people don’t meet the standard you’re flagellating yourself for failing
me:
me, biting and then swallowing the bullet: then I hate them too, just as much
the giant: asldkjflskdjf, no,
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#this is not a feel that I am experiencing at this particular moment but it is definitely a feel that I know #it weirds me out that so many people recommend ways of dealing with self-loathing that #casually assume you loathe *specifically* yourself #and that if you merely judged yourself the same way you judge others you’d be fine #I suppose I understand why people would want to focus their ways-of-dealing-with-self-loathing discussions on #forms of loathing that don’t extend to the interlocutor #but it does make the advice pretty useless to me #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #scrupulosity cw #this probably deserves some other warning tag but I am not sure what