@ghost amen.

@ghost The only laziness that exists is intellectual laziness of those who have no such impediments to their own development.

@ghost Nah, I've been just plain lazy before. No barriers but my own lack of interest in doing things. My priorities were not on school.

Laziness totally exists.

That doesn't mean that some people may be having issues that create the same result. That's not the same. There may be issues that exaserbate laziness too, and make it harder to reorient.

But yeah, laziness is a thing.

@ghost i need to remember this so badly but it's so hard 😔

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This brought back memories of my parents calling me lazy whenever I didn't get grades they thought were goid enough, which was pretty much all the time starting in fifth grade. Calling me that didn't help, and they hnever looked into why I wasn't doing as well as I had been.

It's ironic that the word "laziness" is often used as a judgement by people who can't be bothered to ask why a person is doing what they're doing.

@ghost Calling someone lazy can also be a self fulfilling prophecy. For the longest time I thought I was just lazy, can't be helped. It doesn't take a degree in psychology to realise that this will not be beneficial for a person's intrinsic motivation.

@ghost Accusing someone of being lazy actually contains a weird contradiction if you think about it.

Usually when a person gets called lazy this is very much seen as a fault, the implication being that they should stop being lazy. But how can you, it was just confirmed, you *ARE* lazy.

@ghost this post is great and the replies are a nightmare. thinkin of you friend

"laziness" is propaganda that places a negative moral value on not having done what someone else thinks you should be doing

all these comments defending the concept of laziness are people assuming they have something to teach you, because they're not ready to accept that they have something monumental to learn about how we socially construct the concepts of work and responsibility etc

@ghost Thank you for sharing this

@ghost I'm 100% on board with this. I had a similar experience with an old boss — he burned me out and I started working less hard and coming in later. The concept of trying to fix those things at the root was completely alien to him. His solutions were threats and "why don't you just set your alarm an hour earlier". The problem wasn't that I was asleep, it was that I was doing literally anything rather than come in to work. I'd just watch another episode of Netflix.

@ghost I mean, I assume she's talking about laziness-as-a-chronic-condition? 'cause laziness-as-a-transitory-state totally exists, and is a necessary part of taking care of yourself. Some days you just need to wrap yourself in blankets and veg out for a while.

@ghost I can't stop crying. Thank you so much for sharing this.

@ghost I think about how I grew up being told I was just lazy and I wonder how I would have turned out if I had gotten the help I needed sooner instead of being told I'm just a lazy person or told to pick myself up by my own bootstraps or "get over it."

@ghost is someone is evil is it really evil or something is causing it. And if something is causing it is it it's fault being evil or not?

@ghost this is so good. I've often let my imposter syndrome convince me I'm lazy, but then after a week or two of low productivity on a project I will realize there's a deeper cause. It is usually still a problem in executive function, but it's triggered or exacerbated by a different problem, like the project is poorly specced, misunderstood problem space, or just an outright bad idea...