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I can go hungry for a whole day without taking it out on enyone else. Imagine being a grown ass person that thinks acting like a dick when they’re hungry is ok.
Imagine not understanding how badly glucose crashes/spikes can affect your mental state? There’s a reason the term hangry exists.
Some days I can be like you, others if I’m off my usual routine by a half hour I’m irritable as fuck.
Being a bit cranky or irritable is OK. It’s not OK to hurt others just because you are irritable. Y’all need socio-emotional learning.
Just a bad excuse to act out
In my totally unscientific opinion, I would say that you’re ‘fat adapted’ due to intermittent fasting. In contrast, this person likely eats 3 meals religiously and snacks in between. Their blood sugar absolutely crashes when they haven’t eaten in a while because their body is used to a constant supply of glucose
I have a high metabolism and if I don’t eat i get the shakes. Some people are different from others. I know people that can go all day without eating, that’s not me.
It can crash all it wants. Still no reason to act like it’s anyone else’s problem.
It’s not intentional. There’s tons of times where I’ve acted poorly because I was hungry, and even if I’m aware of it at the time it doesn’t help much.
More things feel like personal attacks, you have less self-control, and generally you get more emotional. In retrospect, sure, I know I’ve acted like a dick, but when you’re hungry enough that you can’t think straight…
Tell us more, enlightened one. Which other obvious yet completely one-sided views do you have to offer?
The one where my bad day/mood does not need to be projected on my environment.
Sorry man. Don’t know what to tell you. No need to imagine because that’s me.
There’s just chemicals that get crossed when I’m hungry and I’m unable to think.
Sounds rough, at the same time, sounds like something you can plan for and learn to cope with.
I developed a system with one person I was dating that if she was ever just unpleasant for no reason at all, I would stop whatever else was going on and make a priority to feed her right away. She figured it out after a few times (while we were redirecting from what had been happening and into getting food), and she was sort of conflicted between being even more angry “how dare you I am not some kind of Skinner box experiment don’t change the subject while I am giving you hell for (whatever)” and admitting that yes okay that is a very good strategy let’s eat and I will probably become happy.
That’s me!
The solution was secret snack packs. I have one under my seat in the car. I have a secret snack in my bag. If I’m out and a snack looks appealing, I sometimes buy it and hold onto it.
I never understood this. I’ll regularly go 24hrs or so without eating and I feel like my personality stays somewhat consistent. Though I’m generally not a very sociable or bubbly person.
Are you me?
Either you let me eat, or he wil!
Migraine is the opposite of hangry: you change personalities first and some time later (after partial blindess and headache) must forcefully un-eat.
And by different I mean worse
This is my son, we often call him Betty White and say that he needs to eat a Snickers. It’s gotten a bit better now that he’s getting older, but was rough for awhile because if we missed the point of getting food into him, he became an absolute monster, once age eating half of a pizza under our dinning table.
