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Confessions 4d
a significant percentage of chronically ill people spend a lot of time online due to mobility & energy-related limitations impacting our real-life interactions but ofc it’s 100% a coincidence that we often get called “chronically” online as an insult 🤔
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Anonymous 4d

most english-speakers don’t even tend to encounter the word “chronically” very often in any context other than references to chronic illness, but go figure!

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Anonymous 4d

If they are spending so much time like u say indoors they aren’t bothering you. Yet u have so much to say about these people who aren’t doing anything harmful. You call them ill when they aren’t doing anything problematic. It’s just not what you consider normal therefore you call it something wrong. You can be happy and alone these are not mutually exclusive things.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4d

quite the assumption

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4d

please, stranger who left dismissive comments on both of my posts, go ahead and inform me about all the other common usages of the word “chronically” that you encounter in daily life

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4d

you misinterpreted my post so drastically that it’s as if we’re speaking two different languages. I’m not using “ill” to mean “problematic”—that’s a very strange presumption on your part, totally out of left field. I’m a physically disabled (due to chronic illness) person criticizing the usage of the term “chronically online”

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4d

the term “chronically online” is used to disparage people for spending a lot of time on the internet. a lot of people with chronic illnesses, myself included, spend a lot of time on the internet because of how our illnesses restrict our physical capabilities in the real world.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4d

Ahhh I see that’s my bad I thought u meant chronically mentally ill. I retract my statement and I hope things get better.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4d

no, the term “chronic illness” tends to refer to physical health conditions unless otherwise specified

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