“Don’t talk to me before my coffee” isn’t really about the coffee. It’s more of a short hand for “hey, I’m still waking up — give me a little time to be in my own head and mentally prepare for my day before you dump your shit on me”
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in reply to calcifer • • •Related: I hear people saying stuff like “if you say you can’t function without your coffee, it’s normal, but if you said whiskey that would be a problem” as a way of suggesting that coffee is a Problem
Setting aside the fact that people aren’t destroying their lives and alienating their families over caffeine, that’s just a weird framing
My partner can’t function without her meds. Y’all gonna demonize the meds rather than the disability they address?
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in reply to calcifer • • •I mean . . . Caffeine being normalized in a context of many different stimulants being *not* normal is pretty profoundly weird, especially when you consider some of its effects are what people warn about regarding different drugs (e.g. induces a dependency).
Of course, I say it all as somebody who deliberately weaned himself off of caffeine, only to eventually need a different drug entirely to start his day. I do not mind my trade-off, and I also wish it was one of many which folks could be informed to make, instead of caffeine simply being a socially-mandated default.
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