Lion-Lhasa
Fancy Flareon
lol If 80% of people have a mental illness, doesn't that make the other 20% (the minority) the abnormal ones?
A lot of people have the same coping mechanism, even I cope by playing games (not just AC) and it feels odd to admit because it feels like I'm admitting to weakness but eh. My other coping mechanism is to sleep ^^
It's also a better coping mechanism than drugs or alcohol.
Whenever people make remarks about you playing any sort of game, ask them how long they spend watching TV or Netflix and then point out that at least your brain is active and you're being creative and not just switching your brain off and watching mindless drivel all night.
The key is not to get defensive, but just use their own insecurities as fuel. It doesn't matter if you agree with what you say, it only matters that you get to them.
Either way, once you're out of school, you likely won't interact with those people ever again unless you choose to.
Edit: ?Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.?
- C.S. Lewis
Words to live by, I'm a generally silly person and get called childish a lot. It gets old very quick.
A lot of people have the same coping mechanism, even I cope by playing games (not just AC) and it feels odd to admit because it feels like I'm admitting to weakness but eh. My other coping mechanism is to sleep ^^
It's also a better coping mechanism than drugs or alcohol.
Whenever people make remarks about you playing any sort of game, ask them how long they spend watching TV or Netflix and then point out that at least your brain is active and you're being creative and not just switching your brain off and watching mindless drivel all night.
The key is not to get defensive, but just use their own insecurities as fuel. It doesn't matter if you agree with what you say, it only matters that you get to them.
Either way, once you're out of school, you likely won't interact with those people ever again unless you choose to.
Edit: ?Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.?
- C.S. Lewis
Words to live by, I'm a generally silly person and get called childish a lot. It gets old very quick.
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