Steven Universe

Sometime I want to catch up with Steven Universe. I think the last show I watched was in season 3? It's been a while. This is one of the few newer cartoons I've watched. I didn't even watch that many cartoons as a child and there were only two or three I really cared about. It's because I seem to have some kind of selective misophonia with television so I try to avoid things that trigger that response. At least I know what I have to avoid--it's not random. But it means I can't watch a lot of TV.

Anyway, I think it's cool to see new sci-fi being made, which is a big part of the appeal of the show for me. Sci-fi is one of my major genres of interest, the other being fantasy.

Thoughts on Socializing

I should ask people things more often.

For example, I was thinking about how often times I'd like to show my appreciation for other people but I really, often, just have no idea how? So I often just don't say anything at all because I don't want to unintentionally do that in a way that ends up being inconsiderate to them and I know different people can have very different responses to the same thing for completely valid reasons. I can't and shouldn't assume that just because one person likes something that another person feels the same way. I also won't necessarily be willing to express appreciation for things unconditionally, or as effusively as some people would want. So in some cases I simply can't show appreciation in the way someone would want.

But if I asked people about that more often, I could maybe find out good ways to show appreciation to others. It entails some risk in itself too sometimes. But I think it's better than either just always avoiding it if I can think of any possible reason it might upset the other person, or to just go the opposite route and start assuming what they will or should feel.

There's a lot of other things I might handle better if I asked people about them more often too. I'm just so used to that mindset that I have to figure everything out myself, but in social situations that's just not always practical or even possible.

*Gently nudges self to try to implement this*

Vagueing Myself

Honestly sometimes I am insufferable.