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View submission: Tuesday Check In: How's Everybody's Mental Health?
How the fuck do I get over a long-time crush that's gotten more... intense, lately? I don't have experience with not just being able to get over someone. For context this is a very good friend who's not available for a variety of reasons, and I'm 90+% sure isn't interested. I've been thinking a lot about reddit threads about what it's like to be attractive and not be sure about people's intentions with you, or hearing about what trauma many autistic women go through, and knowing this person has had *something* bad happen to them, I very much don't want to be another creep in their life.
And maybe it's okay because I'm exerting self-control and not dumping these feelings on them, but the sheer intensity of the crush, the unrealistic idealizing, the frustration and internal anxiety, it's amplified by the fact that their new music is *very* good and I've been listening to it a lot, and the fact that I don't have anyone or anything to get excited about in my life right now, and I keep looping and spiraling mentally, and I'd like for it to stop please.
Also I'm mulling over an action/horror story about disability and mental health issues, and I'm frustrated over the fact that if I can't figure out my own life, I can't actually come up with an ending that answers the question of how you can be stunted and blocked by disability and not eventually give into despair. Any answers like "the magic was in you all along"/"your disability is actually your superpower" feel like a trite, feel-good cop-out, while something like "we get by by supporting each other" sounds compelling, but I don't have an experience that backs up any given answer.
Comment by alternative-gait at 18/02/2025 at 21:29 UTC
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Have you seen the movie Hush? The MC is disabled and literally only a handful of plot points have anything to do with her disability.