Map depicting which US States legally consider Pluto a planet.
This is funny enough on its own but can we talk about illinois please
itās because the governor keeps gambling away the stateās school budget so we canāt afford new science text books. similarly most illnesses are treated with bloodletting so avoid Illinois hospitals when possible
Just as a PSA, Iāve never reblogged thatĀ āyour mom will dieā post. Iāve seen it half a dozen time so or more and Iāve ignored it every time. My momās doing great.Ā
Youāre safe. Iāve done the test for you. You can safely ignore it. It is a failed curse. It doesnāt work.Ā
Lmao they really took that chance tho
No, I didnāt. In my mind it wasnāt a chance.Ā
But for some people, it would feel like one. There are people for whom posts like that cause great distress. Not because they think those posts actually work, but because those posts prey on anxiety disorders by exploiting the way anxious brains function. Itās an inherently cruel thing to do and I do not blame anyone who is unwilling to take theĀ āchance,ā because regardless of whether or not they genuinely believe their mom will be affected, the emotional distress caused by having seen and not reblogged the post is not worth it.Ā
I do not suffer from this particular brand of anxiety. But I do have anxiety about other, equally unlikely things. So I can empathize with people for whom these types of chain posts cause genuine distress, and I can recognize how needlessly cruel the posts themselves areāparticularly because people who DO reblog them often do so at the expense of followers, or at the risk of getting rude comments about how āgullibleā they are, or even angry remarks from other anxiety sufferers who start blaming the victim instead of blaming the person who created the damn post in the first place.Ā
My point in creating thisĀ post was simply to attempt to ease the anxiety of those who are negatively impacted by those types of chain posts. It has nothing to do with whether or not I actually believeĀ that ignoring that post puts my mom in danger. I donāt. If Iād had even a modicum of doubt about that, I wouldnāt have taken the chance.Ā
But hopefully a few fellow anxiety sufferers now have ammunition against the part of their brains that torments them with that whisperedĀ ābut what ifā¦?āĀ every time they see the post (or others like it).Ā