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Anyone else experience waves of anxiety/shame after info dumping? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by ski11erboi@lemm.ee to c/autism@lemmy.world

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It makes me want to crawl in a hole and never speak to anyone again.

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[–] dhtseany@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago*

Sure we all feel weird because we don't realize we're info dumping in the moment until we're pretty much relieved of our urge to do it then we feel weird about it after like cigarette after wouldn't be satisfying.

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