A cat I used to have had a chair we called his “fighting chair”. It was in the living room and he loved to sleep on it and hated to be bothered when doing so. If you petted him while he was in the chair, you’d soon feel the claws, teeth and bunny kicks. If I dared to do it with bare skin, he’d take it easy on me. However, if I had a thick sweatshirt on, it was no-holds barred.
Aren’t you supposed to put a sign on it that says “Fort Asshole”?
better emotional regulation than a lot of people !
If a person deliberately removes themselves from a frustrating situation to cool off, people call them childish and petty.
If a person finds a way to signal “I’m frustrated and in no mood to talk right now” without speaking (or even by speaking!), people call them passive-aggressive and manipulative.
Those are both emotional regulation skills, and this cat found a way to do both with one action. Bravo.
People don’t know shit about emotional regulation. In fact, they punish you for exercising the very skills you learn in therapy. And then they hit you with “YoU NeEd To Go To ThErApY!!!1!1!” (weaponizing the concept of therapy itself), while conveniently ignoring all the work that you’ve actually done in therapy, as if “therapy” itself is some magic bullet where you do and then you’re better/cured and never have to deal with frustration or challenging emotions again.
Only someone who’s never been in therapy could possibly believe that, but they’re precisely the type to weaponize therapy as a means of ignoring their own responsibility to be a decent person. (i.e., when you’re frustrated because they treat you like shit, and instead of examining their own behavior they just tell you to get therapy, and they accuse you of being manipulative if you have the audacity to demand a modicum of respect).
That isn’t an angry look for a cat. That’s a chill look.
Eyes open wider for angry in order to gather targeting information.
What did you do to this poor baby!
took me a few attempts to not read orange box
She looks pretty grumpy.
Wonder how mad she’ll be if you get rid of the box lol.
SOON
Ooohhh you messed up, obviously.
