Strypey on Nostr: I feel uncertain these days that I can give someone an honest compliment, or speak ...
I feel uncertain these days that I can give someone an honest compliment, or speak with genuine admiration to someone about a mutual friend, without being suspected of sarcasm or some kind of ulterior motive. Do I just have some kind of psychological issue I need to work on? Or is it that our culture has become deeply weird about compliments? Collective irony overdose from 20 years of Gen X eye-rolling (Disclaimer: I'm at the younger end of Gen X)?
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