August 10, 2013

• well this is annoying

  i keep not writing because i want to be sure i understand where my blog is and what its doing and so far everything looks and works the same and my blog is right here where it always is (except at some point xanga's text box for posts got AUTOCORRECT installed and it keeps trying to force me to use capital letters and i don't want to)

  so anyway
  how do you deal with someone sending you a message in which they are claiming to be mentally unstable
  i don't know how to react to this revelation

  not that   you know   in my internet travels this hasn't happened before   but usually i know something beforehand about a person's tendencies toward actual mental instability   or at least claims of it   and it isn't something that just comes at you unexpectedly

  for the life of me i can't even think of why i was told
  it was for none of the usual reasons
     - i am telling you because i am going to leave the internet and never talk to you again
     - i am telling you because i trust you and want to talk about it
     - i am telling you because we are joking about something (that isn't really funny, but of course we joke about what makes us uncomfortable)

  no
  it was for none of those reasons
  but it was in conjunction with something moderately serious so i can't discount it as a joke

  i responded in such a way as to maybe find out whether it is more aligned with the first or second reason but to be honest i feel apprehensive about either

  i'm so much less confident in my ability to help people than i used to be
  but of course i'd rather have that than have it turn out to be like the first reason since that could make things extremely uncomfortable

  we'll see i guess
  just like with xanga

  we'll see what happens

  • 1:39 am
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