In order to be a good emergency contact, you need a lot of friend-patience and empathy. Often, this comes from personal experience with anxiety, trauma, and depression. Mary H.K. Choi Read Quote
If you can relate to what another person is going through while giving their experience room to be its own discrete thing, you’re probably a crackerjack emergency contact. Mary H.K. Choi Read Quote
Reading aloud to other people is wonderful – if you have people who will suffer it. Mary H.K. Choi Read Quote
Everyone is such a mystery, yet we chug along so much of the time presuming we’re all on the same page. Mary H.K. Choi Read Quote
For people who deal with anxiety or depression or can’t be in large social groups cognitively, emotionally, or even physically, phones help bridge the gap. Mary H.K. Choi Read Quote
I always get super confused by the way we look at technology, because since when were all phone calls created equal? It’s not like every text is the same or that all texts are human interactions that are compromised. I don’t get how conduits somehow dictate sentiment. Mary H.K. Choi Read Quote
If you are someone’s emergency contact – you are their person, and they are your person – there is work involved. Mary H.K. Choi Read Quote
Emergency Contact’ is about the anxiousness that is inherent in meat space interactions. Mary H.K. Choi Read Quote
