Repeating myself
Mar. 2nd, 2015 01:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinisterporpoiseYesterday was a great day to spend indoors, as most days of this Indiana winter have been. I spent the day doing some writing, catching up on Netflix, chatting with someone on Skype, and arguing with someone about why garlic and onion are not the same thing. However, the Skype conversation contains one thing that bothered me and a brief thought. Since I'm having a "blah" day when it comes to writing, I'll try to keep it short.
The person on the other end of the Skype conversation about hearing loss. She was doing me a favor and one I asked her to do, to call me out when I do things like this. I need to thank her for that, before I forget. Or if I've already forgotten and I'm repeating myself, I'm sorry.
Another part of the conversation touched on anxiety and how it can cause a person to repeat themselves. I did not think about it at the time, but I've done this in the past. I know exactly why this occurs. People who focus on the topic of their anxiety often get caught in a mental thought loop, reliving the same fears over and over again in their mind. The object of fear demands attention, even if the person spends all of his or her time avoiding the causes.
It takes time to overcome this, and the person has to realize it is happening. Once a person realizes they are doing this, they can take steps to cut back on it, but it never quite goes away.
The person on the other end of the Skype conversation about hearing loss. She was doing me a favor and one I asked her to do, to call me out when I do things like this. I need to thank her for that, before I forget. Or if I've already forgotten and I'm repeating myself, I'm sorry.
Another part of the conversation touched on anxiety and how it can cause a person to repeat themselves. I did not think about it at the time, but I've done this in the past. I know exactly why this occurs. People who focus on the topic of their anxiety often get caught in a mental thought loop, reliving the same fears over and over again in their mind. The object of fear demands attention, even if the person spends all of his or her time avoiding the causes.
It takes time to overcome this, and the person has to realize it is happening. Once a person realizes they are doing this, they can take steps to cut back on it, but it never quite goes away.
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Date: 2015-03-02 10:40 pm (UTC)There is a huge difference: my digestive system can tolerate garlic just fine, but can't tolerate onion at all (unless it's the caramelized version of the sweet yellow kind, but even then it's iffy). Also, I love garlic and usually hate onion — not because of my digestive reactions to them, though; that's just a coincidence.
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Date: 2015-03-03 02:05 am (UTC)But I don't have digestive allergies, I'm just a picky eater who doesn't like onions but can abide garlic.
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Date: 2015-03-04 02:05 am (UTC)Yeah, fb is still giving me trouble. I'm now in discussions with them over the diacritic in my last name, since they seem to think I'm using “characters from different languages” when in fact I am not: I'm using characters from the Romanian language. The fact that some of those same letters appear in the English alphabet does not have any bearing on the subject.
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Date: 2015-03-04 05:23 pm (UTC)I think you may have an easier time saying Romanian and English both use the Roman alphabet. English already has characters borrowed from other languages, including hidden ones like the German umlaut. Cafe is typically spelled with an accented e. (I can't replicate it easily on a laptop keyboard, it's alt-130 on the numeric keypad.) I think you should point that out since their objection is to other alphabets. It's not like you're using Chinese, Greek, Korean, Japanese or other characters. (Although I think it would be cool if I could convert the letters of my name to Anglo-Frisian Futhorc on Facebook...)
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Date: 2015-03-04 07:35 pm (UTC)