That’s a good point. I can’t say I’ve shared a lot of talking points with this person, but there are plenty of things I’ve said or done from a moral OCD brain twister standpoint that I wish I could bleach from my memory. I remember tumblr and woke 1.0, and it did sound at least a little like this. 💀

That, and the fact that everything they write and say reads like a parody, is why my mind went straight to psyop 😭

Also doing this because my trigeminal nerve does NOT get to let me suffer over one more thing in my life

If this was, in fact, what I was (hypothetically) doing, please don’t hold your breath 😫 I hypothetically have a frustrating amount of bugs to work out

Because then, even more importantly than our sense of superiority being threatened, there's the terrifying idea that you can try hard and still not be able to control the outcome. But the obvious solution isn't to deny it, but rethink a society that sets so many up for failure.

I'm not saying every emotion is traceable to a single chemical, let alone that they need to be fixed. But our obsession with "self-control," "discipline"-- and, say, rejecting GLP-1s because they don't require suffering for results--hurts more people than we can bear to admit.

Whether or not this disproves free will is removed from this point and, frankly, none of my business or concern. If my will is free, cool. If it isn't, nothing changes anyway. So what? What DOES keep you trapped is thinking you can mindset your way out of a psychiatric issue.

I can take chemicals that make me functional. Others leave me lying in bed begging myself to take out the trash. There are chemicals to make you angry, happy, hungry, etc. If the past 3 years have taught me anything, it's no amount of willpower can climb a chemical wall.

I’m glad I didn’t know before I’d been to college, because the actual scholarship landscape is dismal. What do you mean you might give me $1200 if I write dozens of essays, each of which would take me hours to finish and submit, when tuition is at least 20x more

Yes, I am acutely aware of how neurodivergent this makes me sound. It still has nothing on my mother recently picking up a childhood photo of me and saying, "look, it's you and your favorite things--dinosaurs and trains"