Be Honest About What You Care About

I really wasn’t built for this era, where the highest honor you can bestow on someone is to say that they don’t care and the most devastating rejoinder “you mad, bro?” I’ve been asked that question dozens of times, online, and have usually not bothered to respond; nobody needed to be told that the answer was always yes. I’ve always cared too much about everything. I know that likely sounds self-aggrandizing, to some degree, but I think most people who are familiar with my history know that it’s a lament rather than a brag. I have issues related to properly feeling and expressing emotion, relating to my medications, but caring, in the explicit sense, is not a problem.