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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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- The entire showerthought must be in the title
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- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
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I do the same. I used to try to understand it and fight it, but nothing helped and it has all been a mess. I ended up just avoiding it and living like that. Seems terrible, but made me feel better. I'm not the one having to suffer by looking at my face anyway, it's the others around me, so I don't care anymore. With time, I learned to preemptively avoid any reflective surface, so I very rarely get glimpses of me,and when I do, it's never for long enough to actually form a mental image. I even learned to pass face id in banks without looking at the screen. There has been several years and I probably don't even know how I look anymore, but I feel better like that. However, I recon it's just avoidance, so I definitely don't recommend doing what I do
As fr the cause, I also don't know. I might have some level of gender dysphoria, but I'm also unsure, and I didn't find myself ugly or something like that, I just can't stand looking at myself. It's really hard to try to understand
Species dysphoria for me. (Yeah, that's a thing too! Therian gang. 🐺)
Yeah.
-- Frost