What have you learned about being inside?

[petra]

What's something you know now that you wish you had known earlier in your sojourn inside?

Comments

[petra]

Regular sleep is one of those difficult things that people persist in recommending for very good reasons.

I admire your ability to detach from screens for 4 hours a day! I've definitely been having problems with that lately, since almost all my socializing is digital and so are the work-adjacent things that I can get done.

I agree that having a good community is absolutely key. It sounds like you have very solid standards for what you want out of your online interactions; I hope the people in your life can live up to them consistently.

[mesotablar]

my internet is fairly bad, anything beyond text based internet usage gets tricky. Youtube isn't really reliable any more let alone videochats. My big vice was computer games and I didn't like the idea of playing all day just because I was stuck indoors.

My real life friends get phone calls and recently I've been writing them letters and sending care packages which all takes me away from screens.

I've been in online communities where it got toxic, and in this anxious COVID isolation time that is something I really don't want to invite back into my life because my personal support networks are not really there as they used to be*. So I've cut back my active online communities to Dreamwidth and Arocalypse because I believe in their community standards. Plus I am finding out so much about gender which is interesting and informative even though I feel completely Cisfemale.

*this was one of the main points of ContraPoints youtube video about Canceling and it really got to me.