What is toxic positivity and what are some examples of it?
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Smile!
If you’ve ever been feeling down and been told to just “Smile!”, you’ve experienced a simple everyday example of toxic positivity: The other person does not want to see any negativity, so they tried to get you to pretend to be happy for their sake — and had the audacity of claiming they were doing you a favour by “helping” you to cheer up.
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