Do you find it stressful trying to fit into societal norms or to "play by the rules"?

[Anonymous]

Do you find it stressful to have to fit into societal norms and rules related to your race, sexuality, religion, gender, etc? Can you ever really ever just be....you?

[RavVid]

No. I am a guy and only want to do guy things. I have zero conflicts. I like drinking beer and talking shit about football.

I'm told it is different for girls, that they have to adopt a role. Don't really understand that.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Yes, because society was made for a specific kind of person. In the US, society was specifically made to benefit the able-bodied, white, cisgender, heterosexual males above all others. If you’re disabled either physically or mentally, you will struggle to meet those standards. If you’re not white, you will struggle to meet those standards. If you’re trans or gay or any kind of queer, you will struggle to meet those standards, etc.

[CalmUntilAbused]

No, no... It's quite the opposite. The US society has been created by the able-bodied, white, heterosexual men (with a significant support from the able-bodied, white, heterosexual women) for all the others, who would not even survive in a more primitive society. There are disabled individuals within the US society (and frankly, in most modern societies), and they are adults. At the dawn of humanity, they would die as children and nobody would care, since they would be considered dead weight. It's just that too much disability, especially severe, if hardly detectable mental disability, has been allowed in these societies, and that's how we ended up with socialists and communists within modern governments. That, in turn, resulted in the most vulnerable ending up on the mercy of the governments with little support from the societies. That's what amounts for Your perceived hardships that those disabled people suffer from. However, please keep in mind that those people are alive in the first place. Without the societies being the way they are, they would die in infancy.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

I disagree

[sage2021]

I don't frequent social media sites so I'm not at all sure what people expect of me and frankly scallop I don't give a clam!!

[Lynx122]

Yes I do that's why I take breaks and rest.

[exitseven]

I try not to conform to what society wants me to be,. Maybe this is why I did not get further in my career, because I was not interested in playing the game. I spent most of my life as a bomb thrower.

[alice55]

No, i don't get them at all and usually don't bother them or try and fuck it all up as always so I'm not even shocked or stressed

[DrPepper12]

I've come to this conclusion after too many trips around an average star on a mid planet...

"All men die, not all men live"

[ProbablyClueless]

Back when I was trying to play by the rules, I found it extremely stressful.

[Delia2005]

I did especially finding out i’m not straight and relationship with gay guy. For appearance purposes.

[CarolinaGirl5]

Why would I try to fit into society norms?

[DerekC321]

Not a lot of the time

[OddBeMe]

I did until I lost all conscience

[noohair]

I never fit in and I did not want to fit in.

[BarryLiverstone]

Nope