me: having extremely difficult time getting anything done, because my executive function is shot to hell and whenever I pick up my phone to check the simplest thing, I end up not putting it down for hours til my eyes go blurry and my arm goes numb

me: gonna try and not use my phone for a while, it’s getting to a harmful point for me

tumblr discourse: smartphones being addictive is a myth. and needing to go absolute zero-use to recover from an addiction is also a myth. you’re brainwashed by society

society: smartphones absolutely are addictive and they cause 100% of modern problems. also, nobody in your family or workplace knows how to contact you without one, you cannot log into any website on desktop without having it nearby for 2fa, and your options for doing literally any required thing in your life without it are rapidly shrinking. Don’t worry we’’ll have it down to zero other options in a couple years

me: ...fuck

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