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cleaning, community: the question club, omg not depressing, stop sharing your thoughts

Cleaning your room = srs business, at least if you're animeg3282.

She makes a post to thequestionclub that is a thinly disguised rant, asking how she can keep things neater.

People start to respond. She gets nice responses at first—telling her to get rid of whatever clutter she might have first, and then worry about cleaning, etc.

The trouble comes when someone recommends she hire a maid service. Apparently, this is a personal affront, and the poster that made the suggestion is actually telling her to drop out of school and work 40 hours a week.

And it all goes downhill from there.

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issendai
2007-11-04 11:12 pm UTC (link)

Wow. I'm of two minds here. On one hand, there's some serious crazy going on. On the other hand, I can't tell if it's organic, home-grown crazy, or if her parents gave it to her. If what she's saying about her parents is true, then they've trained her to hear a silent "you lazy, freeloading fuckup" tacked to the end of everyone's sentences because it's tacked to the end of their sentences. And suddenly her crazy is less with the funny and more with the sad.

Or maybe she's as thick about her parents as she is about everybody else.

But considering where those attitudes tend to start, I'm leaning toward "her parents are making her crazy."

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	faemageforsaken 2007-11-04 11:27 pm UTC (link)
	I'm with you on this one. Been there, done that, in my 30s and just getting over the overreactions on the same issue. =/ But...the part of my mind that isn't sympathetic is laughing its ass off. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	pandabonzai 2007-11-05 12:19 am UTC (link)
	Same here. I know a couple of people who had that issue, and sometimes it was kind of frustrating to deal with them because of it. On the other hand, they couldn't really help it so what can ya do? :/ Then again part of me keeps wanting to reply to her godDAMN girl, quit yer bitching and just clean if you're going to whine at all the advice being handed to you. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ingrid 2007-11-05 12:22 am UTC (link)
	I'm leaning toward "her parents are making her crazy." It's good there's an incredibly easy cure for that. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	jrs1980 2007-11-05 12:56 am UTC (link)
	I, for one, cannot condone parricide... (Reply to this)(Parent)

iwanttobeasleep
2007-11-05 01:21 am UTC (link)

I don't buy it. If it was some kind of complex (or at least the kind that would justify this) she got from her parents, she wouldn't be implying that everyone who cleans is a pathetic OCD sufferer, or that cleaning is completely below her awesomeness. I reckon she's hearing "You lazy, freeloading fuckup" because she is being a lazy, freeloading fuck up, and she's unhappy that TQC didn't say that's okay.

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	catslash 2007-11-05 08:01 am UTC (link)
	Either that or she's trolling, because holy crap is there ever something seriously off in her reactions. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	stella_polaris 2007-11-05 08:42 pm UTC (link)
	Or she's just a typical angst-ridden teenager who thinks her parents are there just to make her life harder and takes everything they say to mean something negative. I have friends like that. I love standing nearby and listen to them be assholes to their parents who are just trying to offer advice. And note, my friends are 19-20 years old. So, yeah. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	narcissam 2007-11-05 09:22 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, in part, but I'm thinking she's also drunk, though. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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