Timmy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 21, 2023 10:41 am
If the internet is distressing, sounds like you need to turn it off for a while and detox. Get yourself a dog and get outdoors, they're equally frustrating at times but at least your not shouting into the wind (unless he's ran off again, which mine does).
Actually I am in a bit of a mood since my last relapse looks like it will cost me the use of my left arm. MS is gradually chipping away at me. It does make me somewhat fractious. I might end up losing half of my entire complement of arms.
Thankfully, years after the initial diagnosis, I am told I will be given some treatment which "might" (60% probability) stop things getting worse. So I largely keep away from people, live online, use this forum as an outlet and potter about in the shed.
I mentioned this to @Weeksy who completely misunderstood why I was telling him that hence his comment about not being a psychiatrist. That was not my point, I am not looking for help or asking for pity. The point is, social media is my only lifeline so give me boundaries or rules to play by and I will follow them. He keeps shifting the goalposts.
Now a rant which I will try to drag back on topic:
I do not trust myself in public, especially in this day and age of trans bollocks and race baiting. I am still the sort of person who will not shy away from conflict. If someone throws their rubbish on the street in front of me, they will be invited to pick it up. If there is an altercation, I will step in to break it up. But this is London and half the people here immediately play the race card and that is a dangerous scenario if you happen to be white. I dare not shop at Wickes now either in case they insist I refer to a bloke in a dress as "she" (my default position is to ignore) but a situation may develop where I might be forced to acquiesce and I would not. That's not in my DNA.
In short, under my current circumstances, it is all to easy for me to get into trouble just for being a bit "different". For example, if a prick like Yorick spoke to me in real life the way Weeksy allows him to in this forum, he would never do it twice. I have a few people on ignore of course, those who delight in winding people up up but Yorick is different. He is deliberately targeting me specifically but on top of that, I know him. I know some of his past let's say "indiscretions". I don't take shit from a cunt like him.
Oh and there is a very strong possibility that such moral fortitude (if that's what it is), if exposed, would have you looking for a new bank account.
Such is life.