One thing that’s tough with kind of being ‘that person’ people know who is a bit of an activist or an academic regarding social issues, is that if there’s a day you don’t want to get engaged or explain issues to someone or read an article they think you like, they immediately think there’s something wrong. 

And honestly, it’s totally understandable. When you expose yourself to shitty stuff like oppression and rape culture and stuff, it’s easy to burn out and become depressed and hate the world. 

But that’s why I regularly take a day off and ignore that kind of stuff. Probably about once a week. But I don’t want to tell anyone I’m doing it, because I know it will come with, ‘everything okay?’ and ‘You need to watch something funny!’ and all sorts of other stuff. And it’s like… I’m already doing those things. I’m not burnt out, and this is why I’m not. Because I take days off. 

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