Reddit celebrates incredible Gen Z act of bravery

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[–]thethrowawayReddit refugee 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You notice how she was perfectly normal on the phone?

I think this is a great example of working yourself up over nothing. I learned at a pretty young age that nobody cares if you slip up or take a few seconds to think. Thats normal human interaction. Literally all she is doing here is working herself up over nothing (assuming this is real, I know real people that do this so).

Also, it is a self fulfilling prophecy. She could learn to be normal if she just didnt let herself act all weird, but instead shes rewarding her anxious behaviour. I find that socially anxious people end up acting weird to try to avoid social situations, which ironically ends up getting them into awkward social situations more often. Totally self fulfilling. Break the cycle.

I wish people would quit normalizing this crap. Its not healthy behaviour.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

A whole generation could do with a short course of cognitive behaviour therapy. They have been inculcated with cognitive distortions throughout their formative years through schooling, media and parents and for vast numbers it leaves them unable to function as adults.

I think she should be commended for actually completing the task despite her anxiety over it, and that hopefully she will feel less anxiety in future. Mocking her is the wrong response.

The children who went to school post-2000 have been really let down by the adults in their lives, be it helicopter parents, self-esteem obsessed teachers or a media that has pushed existential doom and guilt on them.

Jonathan Haidt has spoken and written at length about this and any parents out there with kids below 10 should look into what he has to say. My niece just hit eleven and she is now walking home alone from school and going to the local shop to run little errands because her parents want her to be independent and able to handle the transition to secondary school next year and not be one of those kids that needs to be driven to school when they’re fifteen because they’re too scared to catch the bus on their own.

[–]OuroborosTheory 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

yeah, he calls it "anti-antifragile": they got so torqued by campus debate bros they rendered themselves unable to even operate without a safe space, so they just resort to deplatforming, screaming, punching that makes the disingenuous debate bros look like the reasonable ones: so one brings up stuff like Cherokee being enthusiastic slaveowners or Black-on-Black crime--and they go unanswered because the students run crying to the admins because they don't want to "engage"

basically it's another academic fad like the 70s' obsession with "self-esteem"--few teachers questioned its novelty (I mean they're elementary/middle-school teachers while even professionals go with the flow) and eventually it became SOP and nobody realized you even COULD question it; ditto how the radfems were the dominant SJW for decades until they hit that third rail of trans women 2014/5 ("passing" gays are still exiled)

[–]Adventurous_Ad6212 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Every time I slip up while talking I just jokingly say I had a stroke and the person chuckles then we move past it. No time to worry about my mouth being unable to keep up with my brain

[–]Femaleisnthateful 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

It's funny how this generation has so much AnXIeTy about picking up a phone and engaging in normal human interactions, but can post videos of themselves at their most vulnerable to be viewed by millions.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

They can retake the videos for social, and the livestreams are chock full of love-bombing as the entire generation has been taught that even the slightest, most mild criticism is soul-destroying. A phone call with a live person who might tell them something that they don’t want to hear, like criticism, is anxiety-inducing.

I have social anxiety and when I worked at my first job I used all sorts of tricks to never have to speak on the phone unless I absolutely had to, email arriving in the office was a godsend. To this day I still find it difficult to make a call to a stranger and I will rarely call friends or family and mainly rely on text messaging, yet I can stand in front of 300 children and make them laugh or tell them off and not think anything of it and meet parents for difficult conversations. My brain is weird.

[–]Horror-Swordfish 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What's wild to me in the comments section (at least on TikTok) is that they are SO QUICK to be the nastiest people to anyone that even gives a mild criticism. Like if someone says, "Oh, I don't really like the way that looks," on an interior design video, they'll get dogpiled on for "hating" or mocked for their profile or told they don't have to comment, blah blah blah.

"Only good vibes" taken to the extreme. And it's no wonder that real life induces anxiety; you can't just disappear someone saying something you don't like in the real world as easily as you can on social media.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Social media will induce anxiety. I've gotten dog pilled before for just saying innocent shit like "oh I don't really like that movie".

Best to stay off it if you can't balance it. I don't think kids can. Tough to parent them in this world now I think since most adults don't really understand or keep up with the social media that the kids are using. I certainly don't.

Can't really go the full luddite way either and ban it. Kids won't learn how to use it healthy then and it's not exactly like it's going to go away. Probably will have to do something like not letting the kids have a smartphone until they can pay for it themselves but let them faff around on the internet with minimal control provided they are generally monitored and not doing it totally in secret. Like have the computer in the common space where you can see it.

[–]Clown_Chan 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Right?

Too anxious to make a call, but not anxious at all to make video and post it on internet for literall milions of people to watch.🤡👍

[–]OuroborosTheory 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

it's the "dedicate your profile to your address+intimate details+mental conditions+allergies" meme--no opsec at all, with even the slightest difference on the politics of cartoon shows bared for the virtual village to boo and hiss

that's probably THE Xer/Millenial vs. Z/Alpha divide: both "grew up on the internet" but only one actually knows PCs: the joke is that Gen Z doesn't even know how to right-click, but their online life has been streaming video and 2-4 social-media and art sites, as opposed to cable TV and weird Web 1.0 sites (like even Tumblr's been gone for 5 years now)

part of this is actually on Apple or "Mac culture"--back when it actually made computers it was derided as the juniorized "user-friendly" black-box OS designed mainly for either Meemaw or her 4yo great-grandkids (until Windows X broke everything you could do with Win 7): its corporate strategies were literally called "evangelism marketing" and "walled garden," and they invented the whole "Think Different (but dress and style the same and have your dad pay twice as much for the same performance)," "creative peopleTM" chic

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

no opsec at all,

They don't even know the fucking word.

"Digital native" is one of the most obnoxious phrases I have ever heard; they can't even use a mouse.

You would expect such a term to be reserved for people that have brains optimized for the domain of information processing, which absolutely is not the case. They resemble zombies consuming mindless games like Fortnite.

[–]OuroborosTheory 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I've seen Zillennials so smartphone-bound they don't even know about saving a link

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I know people that can't copy and paste on the iPhone they use every day. I'd be in favor of an IQ test like that where if you fail you just get removed from the gene pool, but unfortunately no majority can be found for that, because the majority of people are stupid. You would think that someone like that would be classified as having an intellectual disability, but no.

[–]xoenix[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

All hell breaks loose when someone posts it on r/TikTokCringe.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Can't tell if it's white knights riding to rescue m'lady or white knights riding to validate "muh cundishen," but the fires have been lit and Gondor is calling for aid against the OP in any case :D.

[–]LyingSpirit472 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In all cases, the best way to test is "put the audio and same thing over, but make it an ugly man doing it, and see if people validate them as much. (PROTIP: They won't.)

[–]thethrowawayReddit refugee 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

OK thats hilarious.

[–]binaryblob 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

She looks like a model with an enormous amount of make-up and expensive clothes. Yeah, that's totally the behaviour of someone with autism. /s

She is one of those obnoxious people that exploit whatever mental illness du jour to get views. Even if she has autism, saying you are "anxious" when you live stream your life to millions, is called lying.

For every chronic illness on the block, you can find such people. I saw someone that wrote 4 books today that claimed "she was living in isolation" ... WITH HER HUSBAND. How fucking retarded do you have to be to claim that seriously?

If you have a serious chronic illness, you do not have the energy to write four fucking books.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Can you imagine how she will react to her first fuck.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 3 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 5 fun -  (2 children)

Won’t have to imagine it, she’ll probably livestream it.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

On OnlyFans, because of the monetization.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Id fuck her.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Id fuck her

[–]NormalPear 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Eugenics towards autism needs to hurry up.

[–]gloomy_bear 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Go fuck yourself

[–]alladd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't think she's autistic; I think she's just sheltered from having to interact with strangers. Her parents no doubt paid for the hotel and are paying for the room service too; they probably don't expect or ask her to do anything herself so she's overwhelmed by her newfound freedom of choice.

[–]UncleWillard56 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is what the world looks like if you start handing out trophies to everyone.