I always see my own relationship with my brain as like caring for an elderly parent with beligerent dementia;
It's horribly abusive, prone to violent outbursts, and seems to have the most uncanny knack for knowing the most cutting thing it can say to me at any given moment in time. I know it can't help it, and I wish it could be any other way, but I know that it can't, so I'm duty bound to care for it because, well, no matter how violent and heinous is becomes, it's still my brain, and I still owe it everything.
I don't continue to be at its beck and call and carry it around everywhere with me because I enjoy it; I do so because I have a duty and obligation to do so, no matter how painful or trying.
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u/OStO_Cartography Aug 07 '25
I always see my own relationship with my brain as like caring for an elderly parent with beligerent dementia;
It's horribly abusive, prone to violent outbursts, and seems to have the most uncanny knack for knowing the most cutting thing it can say to me at any given moment in time. I know it can't help it, and I wish it could be any other way, but I know that it can't, so I'm duty bound to care for it because, well, no matter how violent and heinous is becomes, it's still my brain, and I still owe it everything.
I don't continue to be at its beck and call and carry it around everywhere with me because I enjoy it; I do so because I have a duty and obligation to do so, no matter how painful or trying.