wild speculation: crushes are a symptom of "stuck" emotional energy, and are actually a form of anxiety, a socially sanctioned one that you are encouraged to enjoy instead of freak out about
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This seems really unlikely to be true. I am not excited to do my taxes
biological response is the same, it's the mental framing that determines the direction of the emotion.
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Hmm I don't think this is true. Misattribution of arousal can get you a long way, and it definitely sometimes works to reframe anxiety as excitement, but positive vs negative valence really is a thing.
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Like I'm all for queering the anxiety/excitement binary when it's useful to do so, but there's often a pure discomfort with uncertainty aspect of anxiety that you really can't reframe away.
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