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3. Our society encourages us to chase happiness and its enshrined as a right in our Declaration of Independence. Yet pretending to be happy gives me a headache, literally! Does pretending or acting happy work for you? #Writephant
It doesn’t. And I have a lot of baggage surrounding the concept thanks to an Asian-American upbringing. #writephant
@Priyajsridhar It works to make us feel worse!
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@Priyajsridhar A3. As someone who is ND, I mask a lot of the time. Due to my life experiences, "appearing to be happy" is part of that mask. Masking is draining. For some things, fake-it-til-you-make-it works but not for being happy. I just feel more awful.
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Does pretending or acting happy work for me?
Pretending to be happy also gives me a headache--I'm lousy at it. Sometimes I just want to sulk in a corner--*that* I'm good at.
I work better in my own time, when I'm done procrastinating.
A3. Our society encourages us to chase happiness and its enshrined as a right in our Declaration of Independence. Yet pretending to be happy gives me a headache, literally! Does pretending or acting happy work for you? #Writephant
If I can't feel happy, usually I can't fake it. Fake it until you make it can work, like if I need to be with someone or meet someone important, I can simulate happy but I think it's stiff. I'm autistic; fibromyalgia and mind fog make it worse; faking it is called masking. Same with my writing. If the emotion isn't there, I usually figure tomorrow will be another day. If I force it, it's rolling the dice as to the results.