This honestly feels like where I draw the line with identity discourse. It seems something that could be genuinely harmful to certain people's mental health if it's normalized or encouraged. Someone needs to remind these tiktok kids that some things are just normal parts of your mind maturing (ie: feeling disconnected from yourself, having changing personalities) and not something special that you should expand upon and turn into an aspect of your identity.

Like "shifting," for example (another weird TikTok thing I've seen), isn't some special magical power that white girls can do - it's literally just your imagination. You can close your eyes and "go" places and feel like different people in your mind if you're creative enough. Everyone can. That doesn't mean it has any social significance and should be made into some big deal.

Idk, I'm honestly kind of losing my mind now at the starting line of my 20s and this shit just makes me anxious that the younger half of my generation is gonna psy-op each other into Antonin Artaud levels of insanity by worshipping the same kind of identity void I feel now. Feeling like you've lost your identity fucking sucks and I wouldn't wish it on anyone with a passion for living because it can honestly erase it. I just don't want to see another wave of microplastic-poisoned hikikomori adults who've scolded and gaslit themselves and their online communities into barely grasping reality and living in a simple, childlike dream world. We already have the Boomers.

Apologies for the cringe unwoke stream-of-consciousness rant, I'm coming down from a high that's lasted way too long, and I unironically feel like the internets made us all insane. Me included. Peace and Love.