Thread:Yelmut Eats A Lemon/@comment-40022303-20190820144010/@comment-24577221-20190821155447

Yelmut Eats A Lemon wrote: well, i may not be an artist, I'm seeing a lot of depression there, and quite a lot of complicated stuff that I just can't try to unravel. I'm just going to take issue with this one thing, quite firmly: That's nonsense.

I used to do quite a variety of creative things. I just haven't had the brains or energy to do almost any of that in a few years. I still have plenty of ideas, but no "spoons" to do them. But a few years ago, I was talking with a friend of mine who does a lot of collages and a lot of other things, and at one point she said something about not being a "real" artist like me. And I stomped on that. "Why on earth do you think you're not an artist?" I pointed to some of the things that she's done. I don't know how much I convinced her. It's hard to convince someone who's depressed and anxious and has self-esteem problems.

If you're doing creative stuff, you're an artist.