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[palominocorn]

I've had a volleyball-induced skinned knee for five days now (healing, just annoying about it) and I keep thinking about how any time I hurt myself doing anything fun, people (my coworkers) immediately jump to "you need to stop doing $HOBBY".

I'm not talking things like broken bones or concussions here; I really do mean bruises, scrapes, muscle fatigue, that sort of thing. These minor injuries that heal within a week are, for some reason, such a horrifying prospect that my coworkers will actively lecture me about quitting things that give me a lot of joy.

Meanwhile these people will get sick with COVID19 repeatedly and still go unmasked to concerts and bars, because I guess that's not as bad as having actual longterm hobbies that keep my mental health stable purple slightly tender spots on my forearm.

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[yvannairie]

💯 I don't really have anything to add other than that it makes sense and also... it took longer over here, I feel. Like, people five-six years younger than me are pretty wild-grown still, but people ten years younger than me exhibit the same kind of stiffness. I don't think it truly went away over here, it's just that we all live on the Yankees' internet so the younger generations end up having similar conflicts.

[palominocorn]

I can't speak for Finland (and the impression I got in my homeland is that, up to my last visit in 2013, kids were still growing up the way I did), but here I think it wasn't so much an internet thing, so much as a lot of government and school initiatives to "raise awareness" of threats to kids. Stranger danger and superpredator campaigns are a big thing, and while my parents were (obviously lololol) not into it, so were various safety campaigns. Some of the latter were good (wear a bike helmet), some were fine but people went overboard (skin cancer from sun exposure IS a thing that you want to avoid, but sunscreen has become a gateway substance to orthorexia because of all the hubub), and some were just. Bad. (I am so fucking sick of the "Gatorade will kill you" nonsense.)

These were a thing before the internet as we know it coalesced, and then the proliferation of modern social media just made it explode. And apparently spread it to other countries.