The rules are made up and the points don't matter

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They likely have high anxiety, possibly an anxiety disorder. It’s just a relatable representation of that in comic form

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“Probably not [thing]”.

That’s equivalent to “isn’t necessarily [thing]”.

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…why though?

Anxiety disorders are a group of mental disorders characterized by significant and uncontrollable feelings of anxiety and fear such that a person's social, occupational, and personal functions are significantly impaired.

Expressing your struggles is not the same as romanticizing them. You should self interrogate why you assume they are the same

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of course it’s a comic with fake characters with no objective truth to be found…

but the artist is a vocal mental health advocate

…it’s 100% about anxiety

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You aren't necessarily good at modal statements.

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expressing struggles with a common disorder is not normalizing the disorder. this is a mean comment.

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comments did not pass the vibe check oh mein gyatt

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They are afraid to go into the corridor/outside because the neighbours are there.

On the matter of the lock, different lock types are more or less common in different places. I do t know where the artist of the comic lives, but here in the UK for example most exterior doors have a keyhole on BOTH sides and you need to use the key to lock or unlock it from inside too.

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My relationship with my neighbors is that we're great friends to the point that we don't even knock coming into each other's apartments, especially considering we regularly take each other's dogs for walks while the others away.

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Because a lot of people I know and see are like "lol I'm a mess" without seeming to do anything to address the situation.

Though that's aggravated by the capitalist hellscape that makes getting health care difficult.

But also I'm less generous about this because it's frustrating to be on the receiving end of someone's crippling anxiety.

And this comic is a cutesy, romanticized if you will, representation of it.

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Every fucking time I want to leave some other neighbour comes out first and I have to wait for them to clear out before I can leave.

And they are so slow! Clear the public area swiftly you inconsiderate buffoons!

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It's not about this comic, it's about the pervasive rappresentation of these struggles as cute quirks instead of crippling issues stemming from a dysfuntional society that needs to be changed.

That's in a never ending amount of webcomics.

Should I also call them out as being low hanging fruits as well?

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interrogate harder because “I feel impinged on by people with anxiety” is not it lmao

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So you guys hate eachother?

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“it’s not about this comic” responds to this comic

listen i agree with your goals but if you didn’t mean to respond to this comic you can understand my confusion, no?

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I'm sure you will master connecting a thing to a related concept in a matter of weeks.

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No? First means less-then-50% probability of thing, second means less-then-100% probability of thing

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you made a hurtful comment. just explaining your downvotes.

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No, it's "I don't think you're doing enough to deal with your problems" first.

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Just going to stick my reply on the top comment here, but may touch on some of the lower comments to help out.

Answering yes to the question "Are they afraid of possibly having a brief interaction with a neighbor" is going to be unique to the individual. I saw some mention of anxiety disorder down there, and while that may be the case for some, I wouldn't label myself with that and I see this as a good opportunity to caution against over generalization for these grey areas of life.

For me personally, I have a full time career that primarily involves interacting with people 95% of the time. When I get done working for the day... I'm all interacted out. So yeah I may not enter a room or exit my apartment when I know it's going to require more social interactions. I'm just tired. It's honestly easier for me to just wait a couple minutes so that I don't have to restart my decompression.