I've now read a few pandemic piece about how bored everyone is and I'm. Hm. I think I'm confused?

Which actually I think is because I have been poor and sick for so long that I've been 'making my own entertainment' this whole time.

Like obviously the effects of a year of monotony on everyone's mental health (on top of all the other stuff) is interesting and probably bad and I don't want to make anyone feel bad I'm just baffled, as an ADHD person who finds boredom EXCRUCIATING

So I...always have something interesting to do hanging around? Idk.

I guess as a person who was sick and poor for a long time before the pandemic, my pandemic experience has been different from a lot of other people.

I've got loads of cool stuff I'm excited to do! Fics to write and sweaters to knit and I still like spinning even tho I'm not always doing that and I got real into philosophy of science for a bit and then there's the degree -

The only thing that's actually boring is my job and like. Yeah? It's a job. I put on podcasts or music to get through it like I have literally every other job.

Is this an Only Child feeling I'm having or something? I've been making my own fun FOREVER. The experience of not having anywhere to go or people to go with I call "loneliness", not boredom. The having new places to go bit is not actually important.

Genuinely coming to the conclusion that the people who write these thinkpieces were bored with their lives already, they just didn't realise because of the (pointless) variety and distractions that they don't do much that's fun or interesting to them.

Update: it might be that I'm too autistic to understand neurotypical fun

I'd still encourage the thinkpiece authors to maybe try a new hobby tho.