Request for feedback: have you ever suffered from toxic positivity?
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1 min readJan 18, 2021
This Bloomberg article put a name to something I’ve been curious about for awhile:
Call it FONO, or fear of a negative outlook. Also known as “dismissive positivity,” it’s expressed as an overbearing cheerfulness no matter how bad things are, a pep that denies emotional oxygen to anything but a rictus grin.
I’d like to hear from you because I’d like to get smarter about our coverage in Better Humans. Would you respond or drop a private note if you have any examples of practicing toxic…