The autistic experience of constantly being told "you're such a sweet, lovely, polite girl!!" but nobody wants to be your best friend. Nobody jokes with you. Nobody enthusiastically invites you. You're used as a two dimensional placeholder friend rather than loved.
Something that always fascinates me as a woman who has suffered from mental health issues my entire life is how men are like “no one cares about men’s mental health.” No one cares about women’s either lol
youngsters don't know this but twitter used to be bird themed. the bird icon. bird house for home. egg for new account. never forget what they took from us
“everybody fucking hates me” was ingrained in me at 8 years old so now to this day no matter how close someone is to me i will always wonder if they actually like being my friend
Being part of a generation that was told “Wikipedia is not a source” makes it genuinely baffling to me that jobs are now telling people to just use ChatGPT for everything.
I quit smoking weed because it is probably one of the saddest drugs. You probably won’t hit the same rock bottom as alcoholism or other addictions. You can’t overdose and you probably won’t lose your job or your wife or die an early death.
But you’ll wake up one day and entire slices of your life will just be…. Gone.
I’m at that weird age where every younger person I meet makes me realize how much l've aged, and every older person I meet makes me realize I'm still a baby.
usually if ppl have few/no friends it’s bc they struggle w/ social skills, depression, or have a busy schedule. none of those are moral failings. however I find it consistent that highly manipulative & selfish ppl are often charismatic & have huge friend groups who enable them
People have largely forgotten that the car will slow down if they take their foot off the gas and that it is not always necessary to press the brake repeatedly to do so