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    13 days ago

    Weirdly I don’t think I’ve ever had a “phase” like other people seem to have gone through. Is this common enough to not have had something like that?

    I guess it was possibly as a teen when I was being LOLRANDOM on internet forums. Not sure if that counts tho because I have always been an internet dweller.

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    1813 days ago

    Edgy atheist.

    I am still nonreligious and dislike organized religion tho, I just dont talk about it anymore.

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    1012 days ago

    I was a “ironically” racist as a young teen, it took me till my early adulthood to realise that being ironically racist is just being racist, and the edgy “humour” that is made at others expense isn’t funny or clever, and is incompatible with the kind, empathetic person I wanted to be.

    Cringing at my teen self pushes me further into deprogramming myself from that shit, but I’m encouraged by the adage “if you don’t look at yourself from a decade ago and cringe, you wasted that decade”.

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      For me it was more like:

      Ages 11-16: unaware sad cringe

      Ages 17-24: learning to hide it

      Ages 25-27: reaching achievement mountain, followed by

      Age 28: quarter life crisis valley and the realization

      Ages 29-now: unlearning to hide it and actually feeling good

      Life is a beautiful journey. Just need to look with the right eyes.

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    1013 days ago

    Thinking I had the answer to everything and that I was the only one who was “thinking logically”. Emotions were weak and irrelevant, the only things that mattered were facts (i.e. anything that I believed). I swear to god, if those cunts like Jordan Peterson had gotten a hold of me I would’ve turned even more insufferable. As it stood, I basically just became a mostly far-left cringe lord with exactly zero understanding about how the world actually works. Luckily I’ve learned since then.

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    813 days ago

    I liked stealing things from my friends and running away, only to give them back when caught. I was such a shit

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    1512 days ago

    Niceguy

    “Why aren’t girls interested in guys like me?! 😭”

    Because you’re weird and overbearing.

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    912 days ago

    I had the cliche phase of thinking that I was a vampire because a combination of a few things. I have a problem with my teeth where it caused my “K9s” to protrude outwards, I don’t have a normally detectable pulse and I’ve always been able to smell other peoples blood from abnormally far away but I can never smell my own. I know now that these are things that can happen to anyone but back then, I didn’t know any better.

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        512 days ago

        Yeah, blood has a smell. I don’t know why but some people can’t smell it at all, while some people can smell it from pretty far way. I’ve never tested exactly how sensitive I am to the smell but, for example, if a woman is having her time of the month, I can usually smell it from several feet away.

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    412 days ago

    All of it.

    Currently seeing a counselor in my mid 30s to deal with some long undiagnosed issues. Go to the doctor folks.

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    612 days ago

    Anime, but it wasn’t popular yet, most people didn’t know what it was. Suncoast video was the only place you could go to buy anime VHS tapes.

    Today I’d have been called a weaboo, but back then I was just weird and cringe.

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      212 days ago

      Same. Remember when AnimeNation was the only mail order catalog to buy anime? Not that I had money but I had a catalog which I thought was so cool.

      Until people at school stole it and proceeded to bully the fuck out of me.