"SERIOUSLY?"

[beandelphiki]

I belong to a lot of communities - 121, to be exact. And I know of many more which I have never bothered to join, cannot join, or would prefer NOT to join which I pop into every now and then.

So I don't exactly keep up with all of them. Some I read obsessively, some I read on a semi-regular basis, some I wander through every once in a while to see what's up, and some I just "keep on hand."

Slow communities in particular I don't tend to keep up with. One of those is asthmatics, which has about 2-4 posts per month. More than half of those posts are of no interest to me. So I barely ever bother reading that community, although occasionally I check in and find something mildly interesting.

Today, I was reading back through the posts for the past four months or so, and found a post that opened with:

Hello everyone. My name is Sarah and I'm an asthmatic.

In a community.

For people.

WITH ASTHMA.


I'm currently experiencing "brain clog." It's characterized by a sense of BRANE 'ASPLODEY, and often a general inability to get words out straight.

It's caused by an overload of smart-ass remarks jumbling up in your head in response to overwhelming levels of MORON.

Comments

[papa-will.livejournal.com]

I am easily irked by huge levels of moron, but I'm going to play devil's advocate here.

What if that's Sarah's way of accepting it? The obvious example is alcoholism, but I'm going for something more recent in my life.

I have allergies. I wasn't the one in my family with allergies, that's my brother, and allergies made him seem fragile. I can't have allergies, I've got enough crap. There's no way I'm going to be overpowered by a tiny frickin' seed that looks like a snowflake. I can't handle this sh*t and it's not supposed to appear in adulthood. But I have allergies. I am allergic. I am a person with allergies. And until I write it, say it, feel it out, accept it, draw it into my identity, it's going to be a conflict on top of whatever other burden it will be anyway.

So go Sarah, for having the courage to say, "Hey, I'm here, and I'm one of us."

[beandelphiki.livejournal.com]

(Mmm, maybe I should have just C&Ped her whole post. It wasn't long. But whatever.)

I wouldn't be bothered if that had seemed to be the case, but as I said below, nothing that followed from that line suggested a joke...and nothing that followed suggested the identity issues you're talking about, either. Those would have abated any irritation on my part.

Likewise, anything additional in that sentence which would have made it more relevant - something like the severity of her asthma, for example, since that can affect advice given - would have made the sentence something worth including. But there wasn't anything following that which elaborated in a relevant way.

I really don't think this was anything but a bunch of stupid. A type of stupid which is a particular pet peeve of mine, i.e. stating the REALLY obvious.

[papa-will.livejournal.com]

fair enough.

[benthecube.livejournal.com]

Sounds like something I'd do for cheap laughs. Cheap laughs are my friend.

[beandelphiki.livejournal.com]

I don't mind that AA-style joke (I say things like that for cheap laughs myself).

But honestly, if it was meant as a joke, it played badly. Nothing that followed from that line suggested it was a joke. *shrugs*

[siegeengine.livejournal.com]

They sound like they're just trying to separate themselves from the "poseurs," who obviously hang out in the com to increase their street rep.

[beandelphiki.livejournal.com]

LOL! I less-than-three this response.