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George Carlin once did a routine where he talked about how society has a tendency to try to rename harsh things to sound less severe and more generally acceptable to society.\u00a0 His primary example was how the term shell shock<\/em> was renamed to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)<\/em>.\u00a0 Shell shock was at some point deemed to be too shocking for sensitive people to hear, and therefore PTSD came into vernacular, and yes it probably helped at making it slightly less scary to talk about, I get this impression that PTSD itself is climbing to that stature where shell shock was, and soon we\u2019ll probably get another, softer, replacement term to replace it but I\u2019m straying off topic here.<\/span><\/p>\n Whenever I get into one of my moods where all I see is red, I\u2019m mad at the world, I hate everything and everyone and want nothing more than to be able to stop time all around me and take a deep breath and relax in complete isolation, like that movie from 20 years ago (Cashback<\/em>), the only phrase that comes into my mind is: burnt [the fuck] out.\u00a0 Everything pisses me off, just about nothing is capable of bringing me back, and the only thing that comes close to helping is going to sleep and hoping it\u2019s not still around when I wake up.<\/span><\/p>\n Over the last few years, I\u2019ve been spoon-fed a whole lot of content that definitely caters to the fact that I am married with children<\/a>, and I\u2019ve noticed that in that time, a phrase I\u2019ve seen a lot of, is overstimulated<\/em>.\u00a0 Most of the time it pertains to all the mommy content creators who really love to declare themselves or hypothetical stressed out other mommies as being overstimulated, but because I can relate to overstimulated mommies way more than I\u2019d like to admit to, I get it.\u00a0 However, I also recognize that most of the time, the symptoms of a mom that\u2019s overstimulated it is, seeing red, being mad at the world, hating everything and everyone, and probably wanting nothing more than to be able to stop time all around them and take a deep breath and relax in complete isolation like that movie from 20 years ago (Cashback).<\/span><\/p>\n It occurred to me that what\u2019s probably happened over the last few years is that the phrase \u201cburnt [the fuck] out\u201d has been used so much and so hard, and that peoples\u2019 eyes have begun glazing over upon hearing it, is that society has basically invented a replacement term for it, in order for it to get people to listen and be curious and think about it, and that term is obviously, overstimulated<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n It sounds less harsh than burnt [the fuck] out, and because there\u2019s no optional profanity to attach to it (inherently), it\u2019s like there\u2019s a ceiling to how piercing it can be used with some venom behind it. \u00a0Overstimulated, is a gentler and less severe word on the auditory senses of weak people, but I think I\u2019ve unlocked the bullshit spin behind the word, and refuse to see the phrase for something other than what it really is, a descriptor for people who are feeling burnt [the fuck] out.<\/span><\/p>\n But it\u2019s good that I\u2019ve realized the truth behind it the bullshit.\u00a0 It gives my own personal vernacular a softer and less scary option to use if I feel like I\u2019m speaking with some particularly pussy people, and surmise that telling them that I\u2019m burnt [the fuck] out won\u2019t scare them off entirely.<\/span><\/p>\n Hopefully the next time I write a dad brog, it won\u2019t be about some overstimulated subject matter.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" t George Carlin once did a routine where he talked about how society has a tendency to try to rename harsh things to sound less severe and more generally acceptable to society.\u00a0 His primary example was how the term shell shock was renamed to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).\u00a0 Shell shock was at some point deemed … Continue reading Dad Brog (#160): overstimulated is another way to say burnt [the fuck] 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![married with children<\/a>, and I\u2019ve noticed that in that time, a phrase I\u2019ve seen a lot of, is overstimulated<\/em>.\u00a0 Most of the time it pertains to all the mommy content creators who really love to declare themselves or hypothetical stressed out other mommies as being overstimulated, but because I can relate to overstimulated mommies way more than I\u2019d like to admit to, I get it.\u00a0 However, I also recognize that most of the time, the symptoms of a mom that\u2019s overstimulated it is, seeing red, being mad at the world, hating everything and everyone, and probably wanting nothing more than to be able to stop time all around them and take a deep breath and relax in complete isolation like that movie from 20 years ago (Cashback).<\/span><\/p>\nIt occurred to me that what\u2019s probably happened over the last few years is that the phrase \u201cburnt [the fuck] out\u201d has been used so much and so hard, and that peoples\u2019 eyes have begun glazing over upon hearing it, is that society has basically invented a replacement term for it, in order for it to get people to listen and be curious and think about it, and that term is obviously, overstimulated<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\nIt sounds less harsh than burnt [the fuck] out, and because there\u2019s no optional profanity to attach to it (inherently), it\u2019s like there\u2019s a ceiling to how piercing it can be used with some venom behind it. \u00a0Overstimulated, is a gentler and less severe word on the auditory senses of weak people, but I think I\u2019ve unlocked the bullshit spin behind the word, and refuse to see the phrase for something other than what it really is, a descriptor for people who are feeling burnt [the fuck] out.<\/span><\/p>\nBut it\u2019s good that I\u2019ve realized the truth behind it the bullshit.\u00a0 It gives my own personal vernacular a softer and less scary option to use if I feel like I\u2019m speaking with some particularly pussy people, and surmise that telling them that I\u2019m burnt [the fuck] out won\u2019t scare them off entirely.<\/span><\/p>\nHopefully the next time I write a dad brog, it won\u2019t be about some overstimulated subject matter.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"t George Carlin once did a routine where he talked about how society has a tendency to try to rename harsh things to sound less severe and more generally acceptable to society.\u00a0 His primary example was how the term shell shock was renamed to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).\u00a0 Shell shock was at some point deemed … Continue reading Dad Brog (#160): overstimulated is another way to say burnt [the fuck] out<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,193,45,71,192,83,156,146,49],"class_list":["post-51004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comparison","tag-dad","tag-fail","tag-famiry","tag-kids","tag-observations","tag-social-media","tag-triggered","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51006,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51004\/revisions\/51006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/GR9_6ErXYAAJ9DV.jpg\"){kind=link}