Hiya!
So, I wanted to address something that I've been seeing a lot of lately , either in comment sections or in stories.
I personally don't really know how to phrase it, but i can explain it. So, let's sat you have a friend, and they bring up something or someone, and they say that they feel like someone doesn't like them, or something like that situation. In every single situation I've seen like this, the person always says something dismissing, or something invalidating. As strange and weird the thing is, please note that your friend probably had to collect a lot of courage to even bring it up, so for anybody to shoot it down with something as dismissing as "Bruh" or "Idk why you're always in your head about this stuff, it doesn't happen" is probably really hurtful.
As someone who's been in a situation like this way too many times, I always found myself changing the topic as a result of feeling like my friends didn't care, and eventually just stopped opening up to others.All i ask is if a friend of yours ever brings up something, to not shoot it down by saying something like " That doesn't happen". I understand that it may seem strange that anybody even thinks like that, but please try to understand anyway.
Maybe you have a friend like this, maybe you are that friend, but at the end of the day, we should still try to make an effort to try to not invalidate the feelings of others, because you haven't an idea the amount of courage it took for them to tell you.
Have a wonderful day!
- Sutato
