this is toward neurotypical folks

many online want your attention and focus, don’t simply give it to the ones wanting it.

try to ignore them, or find the ones trying to avoid as much attention. identify those using scapegoats and frontmen and what they’re trying to affect through them.

you might uncover a more interesting and frustrating subject to research that way.

many online want your endless engagement, viewing or participating, however it may go. same applies as above but a caveat, engage with your own boundaries, limits.

don’t let them dictate the terms of engagement. you decide how much to engage, the pacing of when to do so and when to stop. create your own systems if you need to, but don’t let another ensnare you in theirs.

recognize that the engagement they seek becomes its own snare, but that you can control how you go about it and how tight, or loose, its grip becomes.

this is as much to myself as anyone else this may help.