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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Replying to @ssica3003 @QiaochuYuan
This seems really unlikely to be true. I am not excited to do my taxes
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Replying to @DRMacIver @QiaochuYuan
biological response is the same, it's the mental framing that determines the direction of the emotion.
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Replying to @ssica3003 @QiaochuYuan
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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Replying to @DRMacIver @QiaochuYuan
So yep, I would count the context of this specific tweet from QC as a “useful to do so” context. I used eternal language here (“x is y”) which is not technically always correct BUT we know that and your replies here being picky over precise definitions feels draining & unhelpful
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Replying to @ssica3003 @QiaochuYuan
I'm sorry this came across as unhelpful. I think your characterisation of my response is significantly worse TBH, and I don't think you get where I'm coming from, but this doesn't seem like a conversation it would be useful to continue via tweet.
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Was attempting some meta-feedback in good faith, it seems to have gone badly, sorry, won’t do it again
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Replying to @ssica3003 @QiaochuYuan
Thanks. Feedback is good. Happy to provide meta-meta-feedback on why it went wrong if you'd like, but probably better to move that to DMs?
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