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

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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

Phoenixz

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.

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Surely you're not implying that wanting to avoid unnecessary social interaction with overly familiar strangers means you have high anxiety?

Sabata

I do this for every threat of human interaction ever. I wish I could fix that.

Midnight Wolf

Just stroll out as casual as possible and act suprise when they see you. "oh shit, hey" without any clothes on. Repeat this until they relocate their usual hangout spot to another building.

Sabata

Your the guy I'm hiding from.

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This was a useful perspective for me. Thanks.

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Thanks, I'm aware of how this may sound to the people struggling in that way. I sympatize with their struggle, I'm part of it more often than not.

I'd like it to not be the case and I don't think it's completely healthy to celebrate it.

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Who is speaking in the last panel?

AItoothbrush

Ahh i cant relate to this one

Tarquinn2049

It's just normal social anxiety.