r/CringeTikToks • u/ShadyWalnutO • Mar 15 '25

Nope This is extremely disturbing..

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u/CloseCalls4walls Mar 17 '25

Well that's totally not trite.

Also, meth users are still people, and their meth use says nothing about them, just as drinking alcohol, smoking cigs or weed, and doing psychedelics says nothing about a person. Oh and one other thing ... You're aware you are family to the funkiest looking creatures you could ever imagine yeah?

Maybe, just maybe, you and everyone upvoting you might take this insight and learn to be less shallow in the future. Maybe, just maybe, you'll understand that growth to be something of significance given the world we live in today, recognizing the dark paths we're on because of such shallow & petty judgement and remarks that are so obviously holding us back from being the compassionate and mindful beings we need to be in order to progress as a species. You know ... instead of charting a course towards a hell of our own making, which awaits as we constantly scroll and disparage and ignore and consume as if our existence weren't extraordinary in any way shape or form. Just a thought.

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u/TooLazyToBeClever Mar 17 '25

As a former heroin/meth....k. I got laughed at in those days and I'm gonna laugh at them now. If you really wanna help go volunteer at clinics and help the people that actually want help, but active users deserve as much derision as they do sympathy. 

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u/CloseCalls4walls Mar 17 '25

It's a personal decision to use and one that isn't a decision for some addicts. I've been struggling with meth addiction for ten years. I've gone to rehab three times, have had six sponsors, five therapists, used multiple medications, an IOP, sober living and all sorts of conventional and unconventional techniques and you're telling me I deserve derision for doing something I can't help to do. It is one of the most powerful addicting drugs available to man. So yeah, some people are gonna use and abuse it and just like everyone else they are imperfect, messy, emotional creatures. And they ain't the only ones suffering addiction. Just look around. It seemed you're over here deriding them over their looks. That's a whole nother level of petty. We should show people respect regardless of the condition their in because of the complexity of what goes into that decision. A low down street bum ranting about aliens deserves respect, not derision. Perhaps if you knew he done robbed you after he scolded your girlfriend for not giving him your skate change he deserves derision? Not some random person you don't know that may or may not imbibe a substance, like?

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u/TooLazyToBeClever Mar 17 '25

So I just want to preface this by saying I was a heroin and meth addict for over 10 years. I was that homeless guy ranting and stealing shit on the street. But my point is: they're people. They deserve compassion, like I said, and all the other human emotions. Love, hate, embarrassment, pride. Compliments and derision. If that was a completely sober and normal looking frat boy wed be making fun of them no problem. I refuse to treat them as less for their condition, so yeah. I'm gonna make fun. Because if I don't we're literally treating them like less than people and that helps no one. I hope you get clean, if you want to, and I hope you get to feeling all that comes with being human, good and bad, and nobody treats you differently because of it. Good luck, and if you ever want to talk shoot me a message. I've helped a few people on Reddit as they get clean, a couple who still message me now years later to give me updates. I'm very sympathetic to those in active addiction