This morning a friend of mine called me a "conspiracy theorist" because I said I don't like using the plastic spatula because I don't like eating plastic.
Obviously it's no big deal and it was a joke coming from a place of love. But it got under my skin for a few reasons:
1. Eating plastic being harmful and microplastics travelling through the gut wall is not even contentious science, man. If people think THAT is a conspiracy imagine what they will think of my other views !
2. I have never really publicly complained about my health issues so I felt a bit prevented from saying something like "hey, when you've spent years trying to get your body to be healthy you'd be as cautious as I am" - I'm proud and I'm not into being a victim so not many people know the issuesI've been through.
3. I really wanted to react defensively and start being annoyed and explaining all the issues with plastics but nobody cares and this doesn't get you anywhere.
Between this and the pressure I know people are going to be putting on everyone to get the vaccine (it's still early stages of rollout here in aus) I'm just kind of depressed about being someone with "alternative views" - I guess because I've always prided myself on my intelligence, something about being seen as dumb or crazy for things that I've actually spent an incredibly long time considering really bothers me.
Interactions like this drag me into this resentful, defensive "pain-body" space immediately and cloud my thinking and I find it almost impossible to respond in a funny, happy, productive unself-conscious manner.
Does anyone have any good frames of mind or ways of dealing with things that turns stuff like this into water off a ducks back?
Obviously it's no big deal and it was a joke coming from a place of love. But it got under my skin for a few reasons:
1. Eating plastic being harmful and microplastics travelling through the gut wall is not even contentious science, man. If people think THAT is a conspiracy imagine what they will think of my other views !
2. I have never really publicly complained about my health issues so I felt a bit prevented from saying something like "hey, when you've spent years trying to get your body to be healthy you'd be as cautious as I am" - I'm proud and I'm not into being a victim so not many people know the issuesI've been through.
3. I really wanted to react defensively and start being annoyed and explaining all the issues with plastics but nobody cares and this doesn't get you anywhere.
Between this and the pressure I know people are going to be putting on everyone to get the vaccine (it's still early stages of rollout here in aus) I'm just kind of depressed about being someone with "alternative views" - I guess because I've always prided myself on my intelligence, something about being seen as dumb or crazy for things that I've actually spent an incredibly long time considering really bothers me.
Interactions like this drag me into this resentful, defensive "pain-body" space immediately and cloud my thinking and I find it almost impossible to respond in a funny, happy, productive unself-conscious manner.
Does anyone have any good frames of mind or ways of dealing with things that turns stuff like this into water off a ducks back?