For me, the dread begins right around Labor Day. It starts out small but by the time Halloween comes around, it becomes this huge sucking pit in my stomach. I really hate the holidays.
Same. It feels good after new years for some reason (maybe because that’s when the days are getting noticeably longer again?), but I hate this time of year, even since I was a kid
It’s basically two months away
Shit I dissociated for another month
it’s dissociation, not disassociation. But nice meme!
*dissociation
I, too, prefer fall.
I too, prefer spring.
Thanks, 2025.
It should be Mariah Carey instead of the cat.
Is this the latest word to get adopted into popular parlance, be used online to mean literally anything, and then get abandoned within a year?
Dissociation is a real thing that is very common. Why do you think it is not?
Come on. All the memes recently are like “I was having a cuppa and I accidentally dissociated, and Heaven knows I’m miserable now”.
Sure, I understand annoyance with the enshittification of words with real clinical meanings. I am sick to death of how dumb popular discourse is around autism and adhd, and dissociation is clearly next on the list to be made stupid. So I hear you.
I guess I have come to see popular recognition of mental health terms as a double edged sword. It’s good in the sense that having a less-pejorative and hurtful term for a variant of human behavior is better than the ignorant hurtful alternatives.
‘Neurodivergent’ can be a lot less damaging as a label than ‘spaz’ or other archaic playground labels, as an example that is close to home for me.
I have found it easier to explain misconceptions about these sort of terms to the few people in my life who even give a crap to know the real truth. Explaining an entirely new complex word? Well it is much harder to find a receptive audience.
So pick your poison, I suppose. Either have to try to explain GRE (graduate record exam, a test for US grad school admission) vocabulary words from scratch to semi-literate relatives who only care maybe a little. Or drop a subtle hint at a chill moment to nudge their misuse toward a better path?
Either option still sucks, but I guess I will take the misunderstandings over the incomprehension.
No, this is literally how some of use feel, though it is of course hyperbola.
