If someone with low self-esteem shares a small victory, don't ruin it. Celebrate with them. They need the reassurance to improve.
It hurts when someone with low self-esteem musters the courage to share their achievement, only to be dismissed. Be supportive and encouraging.
Please subscribe to my Patreon or Ko-Fi so I can get closer to being my own person financially. I can't get into it publicly but I'm dealing with yet more BS related to the "AI took mah jerb" post from awhile ago and I am freaking miserable.
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I'm in my late 30's, barely above living paycheck-to-paycheck, and I feel so erased every time people talk about furries like every one of us is a sysadmin making $60k+ a year.
Speaking as a former doomer this way of thinking was ruining my life. Don't convince yourself that staying informed about literally every bad thing in the world is activism. It's digital self harm and it's taking away from your ability to actually materially help people. Awareness is not activism.
Feeling so defeated. Long-time client of mine I used to do a ton of writing work for has now started using AI to draft work I previously did for them, and now I'm relegated to editing whatever the AI spits out. It's easy to tell me to tell them to go pound sand but I need the money/work. *Sigh*
