before twitter I used to just talk to the voices in my head, now they're on my phone but like... disappointingly similar
Have kinda been thinking about this all day... that I'm not good at getting into real fights with people... it's a tough skill to practice if you're avoidant - ppl understandably choose not to engage & it's easy to justify my own conflict avoidance as like, choosing where to focus my energy or that a nuanced position is less likely to be attacked... and picking a dumb fight with bait tweets doesn't even do it because I'm not emotionally attached to my original statement - I need real conflict I care about
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