I hate when people don’t take anything seriously.

I really, really cannot stand people who seem to never take anything seriously at all and joke about EVERYTHING. When my social battery and energy are drained, I find myself on the brink of snapping and having a complete crash out breakdown.

I have a few friends like that—always making jokes about everything and anything, which can be irritating, but I try not to let it bother me. However, this has kind of hit a high point with something recently. Can anyone relate to this or offer advice? I know not everything is “that serious”, but if something means a lot to me and doesn’t to others, then I get really hurt and feel my patience fray so quick that I want to explode.

We started a really cool DND campaign, and I’ve been excited for it for AGES. However, I’ve realized that a few of my friends are definitely not as into the role play and story building element as I am, to the point where I feel silly for committing so hard and working on my character and the setting and her background, while a few people just keep trying to make jokes the entire time and are constantly on their phones.

I find this happens a lot—if I’m getting really into something, or am really excited about something, or wanted to show people something I like, some people just seem to make everything into a joke and everything has lost earnest and genuine passion.

I really related to Ethel Cain’s rant—I hate that everything is just so passé and I am very afraid that it’s going to affect my interpersonal relationships because of it.