I've started muting and even soft-blocking people who do this - and it doesn't surprise me at all that it tends to be white people, particularly white women, trying to unload on a stranger of color.

No offense, but I cannot take anyone else's trauma and unpack it for them. https://twitter.com/SA1NTCAKE/status/1343976044538318848

How I vent:

- to a therapist being paid for their time
- to a friend who has given consent to be vented to and is in the space to be vented to (I've also felt recently that people automatically expect that I'm in a mood to be vented to and I'm in a bad headspace too)

I've gotten particularly annoyed when I'm having a rough day and try to start a nice thread of encouragement and someone comes in and is like, "This won't work for me. This won't help me."

I am so sorry. But what do you want me to do? And what have you contributed?