Lol

I hate this mirror I'm being shown.

I use lol at the start, but more often I’ll use XD or :P at the end of a sentence in lieu of lol.

I hate how much sense this makes lol

Without the tracking bullshit: https://youtube.com/shorts/m-MYPdqkycE

Ooooooh that took me ages to break and only from being harassed about it.

I replaced it, almost exclusively, with the happy sweating emoji 😅 because it properly conveys what I want to communicate. The hope and anxiety. Hope that I will be properly understood, and anxiety knowing I won’t.

As an elder millennial with social anxiety and late ADHD diagnosis related guilt trauma, I feel seen and it brings me both joy and shame 😄

this is accurate

edit: I have been told at work that I'm too difficult/aggressive/rude because of my straightforward text conversation manner. I add lols to messages to make tone more clear. every time I do that, I think of the millenial lol and that I'm not even doing it by choice there. dw, there are plenty of conversations at work that I do use it willingly in though. and overly much, at time