A while back, I talked about why I couldn’t stand people who are dramatic in the workplace. But as it turns out, it’s not just in the workplace where we find drama. In recent years, society has somehow turned to drama as a way of coping with the ever-growing changes around it.
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As you know, I cannot stand drama as people either want to bring me into the drama or bring the drama to me. In my line of work as a self-advocate and public speaker, I know that I must find ways to reduce the level of drama that comes into my professional and personal life. Now, you might be wondering where does the drama come from in my point of view?
Well, it comes from within my own family (my mom’s side, mostly), the workplace (of which I covered in a past blog) and on social media. I will say that navigating social media from a social ruling standpoint has been a challenge, but it’s made even more challenging when I would be seeking out drama when I really was trying to avoid it.
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Case in point?
Reality television shows like “Hell’s Kitchen” of which I had watched for many years, but in recent years have discovered the show to be a drama feeding vampire that is meant to cause people stress and anxiety by keeping drama seeking people on the show for as long as possible.
Had I become more self-aware in the past, I would never have watched Hell’s Kitchen to begin with. Sure, I admire and respect Gordon Ramsay for what he does, but his shows in the United States are seemingly unhealthy for the mental health of someone like myself.
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Yes, I get the fact that the show needs to get ratings by keeping weak and dramatic people on, but that’s how viewership can sometimes be lost because the drama cannot be stood for what it is.
I’ll discuss more on why “Hell’s Kitchen” is now bad for my mental health in a later blog, but let’s get back to the crux of the issue.
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The truth is that today’s generation is a generation that is defined by social media and seeking out drama in the form of garbage television, false idols and a society that is degenerating. Neurodiverse individuals like myself need to find a way to not deal with the drama and just focus on staying in our lanes, which I will admit at times is easier said than done.
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Of course, people who seek drama are people that have nothing else better to do with their lives. To an extent, there are 5 behaviors that identify a dramatic individual:
Aggressiveness or Depression
Embarrassing Behavior
Childishness
Acting Like Everything is the End of the World
Exhaustion
The truth of the matter is that I deal with enough drama as it is and right now, I am going to move further and further away from it. I deal with it enough at my day job (especially when the higher ups come to visit and everybody goes bananas for no good reason at all), from within my own family and even within the autism/neurodiversity community itself sometimes.
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To put it simply, I play by my own rules and if you are going to try and drag me into drama either by bringing up something I don’t like to talk about like how to run my business or what, then don’t bring it up. Our generation needs to understand that drama is bad and the sooner we cross that bridge, the better.
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Catch you all later!!
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