Yea... its hard to find weird people. Fewer that can stand me and vice versa. But being around normal people is... suffocating. When you spend your life trying to fit in, you don't get to live. You don't even get to learn how to live. But the times you meet people you vibe with are ecstatic enough to carry you forever.
So fuck it.
I'll die weird and alone but, with the few awesome weird people at my back, I won't be lonely.
I've recently learned why I'm attracted to social misfits. Apparently having ADHD is somewhat of a radar to find other people on the spectrum. I really can't be around "normal" people for more than half a day, I have no idea what to do with them. They all have such conforming interests, it's just boring to me, and I don't mean that in a condescending way. It's just how my brain is wired.
Learning to never be in view of the letterbox, that maybe having friends over isn't okay and then letting them go as they quickly learn you can never reciprocate a house invite, avoiding the neighbours eyes, glancing wearily at each car that drives past, diving into books because anything else is too loud, ...
Hmm yeah, I have a small window in my front door and I'm always conscious about the fact that somehow could see me when I walk past it. I need to get a curtain or something...
"You're so mature for your age" is what predatorial adults often say to traumatised teens with self esteem issues to make them feel special and manipulate them into their control.
In the panel they use it to push her to drink, presumably to lower her resistance to whatever they have in mind for later.
As another poster pointed out, the mature for your age part automatically makes the people offering more drinks older people who go after younger women, which is abundant in many places. I was recently discussing this with someone who has been through this when she went back to her home country of St Vincent (while I have Vincentian heritage and lived there from 2-7, I was born in the US and lived the rest of my life here).
Anyway, she says it's almost expected down there for younger girls and older men to get together, and some people hit on her because she (at around age 21) looked young enough to be in high school. When she told them she was older, they told her excitedly that she'd be even more popular because she'd be legal despite looking young.
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HollowNaught@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 145d
Bruh wtf this is dark af
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 37 pts · 145d
That's life for a lot of people.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 144d
Welcome to the real world, the normal world. Life for most of humanity.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 146d
Normal is made up. Be your best self
Bonje@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 145d
Yea... its hard to find weird people. Fewer that can stand me and vice versa. But being around normal people is... suffocating. When you spend your life trying to fit in, you don't get to live. You don't even get to learn how to live. But the times you meet people you vibe with are ecstatic enough to carry you forever.
So fuck it.
I'll die weird and alone but, with the few awesome weird people at my back, I won't be lonely.
Ibuthyr@feddit.org · 1 pts · 144d
I've recently learned why I'm attracted to social misfits. Apparently having ADHD is somewhat of a radar to find other people on the spectrum. I really can't be around "normal" people for more than half a day, I have no idea what to do with them. They all have such conforming interests, it's just boring to me, and I don't mean that in a condescending way. It's just how my brain is wired.
Bonje@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 144d
I feel this sm. But then whenever I see someone that looks neurospicy I just get way too eager and end up flubbing that connection anyway pfffff.
venusaur@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 146d
🩷 keep being unapologetically yourself!
youcantreadthis@quokk.au · 3 pts · 145d
I may be lonely, but... Yeah just that.
redsand@infosec.pub · 16 pts · 146d
Normal is the main character in idiocracy. You can probably do better
lime@feddit.nu · 14 pts · 145d
no, that's Not Sure
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 145d
Go away, 'bating!
fartographer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 145d
Not Sure it's the main character. Maybe you're thinking of whose brain The Creature got in Young Frankenstein, "Abby... Someone... Abby Normal."
gmtom@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 145d
What is "normal" in this case? Because reading a book and drinking tea(?) is pretty up there on what I would consider normal
RustyNova@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 145d
Was raised "normal". Turned not "normal". Must be something else entirely
tetris11@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 145d
Learning to never be in view of the letterbox, that maybe having friends over isn't okay and then letting them go as they quickly learn you can never reciprocate a house invite, avoiding the neighbours eyes, glancing wearily at each car that drives past, diving into books because anything else is too loud, ...
I can go on
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 145d
What?
meekah@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 145d
Some places have a slit in the door for letters, I guess that is what they're talking about
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 145d
But why avoid them?
meekah@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 145d
I guess a similar reason as panel 2 in the image, to prevent the landlord from knowing you're home because of overdue rent or something.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 145d
Ohhh
thymos@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 145d
Hmm yeah, I have a small window in my front door and I'm always conscious about the fact that somehow could see me when I walk past it. I need to get a curtain or something...
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 144d
Warily
tetris11@feddit.uk · 0 pts · 144d
"You say evasion, I say avoision." - Kent Brockman
mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 145d
maybe a cw? Because this kinda hits hard
sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 145d
What is happening in the bottom left panel?
mzesumzira@piefed.social · 24 pts · 145d
"You're so mature for your age" is what predatorial adults often say to traumatised teens with self esteem issues to make them feel special and manipulate them into their control. In the panel they use it to push her to drink, presumably to lower her resistance to whatever they have in mind for later.
krisevol@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 145d
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 145d
As another poster pointed out, the mature for your age part automatically makes the people offering more drinks older people who go after younger women, which is abundant in many places. I was recently discussing this with someone who has been through this when she went back to her home country of St Vincent (while I have Vincentian heritage and lived there from 2-7, I was born in the US and lived the rest of my life here).
Anyway, she says it's almost expected down there for younger girls and older men to get together, and some people hit on her because she (at around age 21) looked young enough to be in high school. When she told them she was older, they told her excitedly that she'd be even more popular because she'd be legal despite looking young.