I call this “residual anxiety from being bullied for everything that made me even slightly unusual every day in junior high.”
i had a really toxic “friend” once who whenever i expressed that i liked something they didnt theyd attack my opinion until i have to give a full dissertation on why i like it. there shouldnt have to be any answer beyond “because i like it”
Tfw when men do that thing where they pretend they have no control over their temper. LOL It’s so funny like am I supposed to pretend that I don’t know you’re completely self-aware and present during this rage performance. Or should I pretend you’re the tortured hero in a movie, possessed by a series of fabricated flashbacks of the war and your father
Someone put in the “Why Does He Do That” quote
Another one:
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft
a cute girl told me she has lots of plants in her house and i told her, for some fucking reason “damn the oxygen at your place must be mad crisp” and somehow still got her number so. chase your dreams. nothing is impossible apparently
