Once you accept that people are going to judge you no matter what you do, but know they will forget about you in 10 seconds because attention spans are abysmal, it becomes easy to stop caring what others think.
Whenever I encounter a problem or feel overwhelmed by stress, I open up voice memos and talk it out.
When I vocalize my anxiety, I usually realize there is no substance to it.
Everything is a diagnosis now. We’ve got a scientific description of every little deviance from the “norm” (is normal even a thing though?)
What happened to just being weird
Can we go back to that, please?
“What’s wrong with you?”
“I’m a weirdo, deal with it”
That works for me
once again discovering that a few minutes of thinking through a problem on paper was more effective than vaguely ruminating about it in my mind for weeks