[ SECRET POST #2268 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2268 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I agree 100% OP and I completely disagree with all this "well they'd have been that way regardless of tumblr" when I see cute fancomics showing social disfuncationality getting SO MUCH praise and "this is what I aspire to" or "this is me" in the comments and have seen people go from socially adjusted to people who go into full-blown panic attacks when someone speaks to them since getting onto tumblr.

I have a friend too who was confident and capable of talking to just about everyone irl. They got onto tumblr about a year ago and they have completely changed: crippling social anxiety, inability to speak to anyone, and totally ascribing to the tumblr vogue of social ineptness.

Now, this isn't to say I don't believe mental illness exists or that a lot of people online suffer from them, but if you really don't see the trend of glorifying mental illness instead of helping it then you're part of the problem. Tumblr as a tool itself may not be part of this, but a very popular trend is if not to encourage social anxiety outright then at least to praise it, and not even in the "it's okay to struggle with mental illness way" which would be a very different story.

[(Anonymous)]

have seen people go from socially adjusted to people who go into full-blown panic attacks when someone speaks to them since getting onto tumblr

Really? Really, who has this happened to? And how the hell do you know that they didn't have something change in their life?

Sure, my social anxiety has gotten a lot worse since I've started to use tumblr. Because my tumblr usage went up when I had to move to another country, where I have no friends, don't speak the language, and work full time from home so I have little chance to improve those things. Concluding that tumblr made my social anxiety worse would be a complete failure in causation/correlation.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I'm totally going to out the people I've seen this happen to on F!S. Yes. Absolutely.

[(Anonymous)]

It almost sounds like those pro-ana groups--people supporting each other in an increasingly unhealthy mindset.

[(Anonymous)]

I've always had debilitating social anxiety. Full-on, had it since I was 6 years old. I can talk to literally anyone in person, because I can put my social anxiety aside if I really need something. HOWEVER. I still have debilitating social anxiety, and it does make me have to mentally prepare for social activities. Being open about social anxiety on Tumblr does not change anything about how I act in public.