Yeah I was pretty taken aback when someone first told me about this. She got mad that I ended a text with a period. I was like “what, that’s just proper punctuation.” And then she got even madder because she thought I was being a grammar snob. I was so fucking confused.

Later she said that it’s like saying “period.” at the end of a sentence, and accused me of knowing that and only pretending not to. But like, if I wanted to sentence to read “period” at the end, I would have typed the word “period.”

I got really insecure and hypervigilant about ending texts with periods after that. It took me years to get over that and even now I still get anxious about sending texts with periods in them…