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    Niceguy

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

    Because you’re weird and overbearing.

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    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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    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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        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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    Edgy atheist.

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

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    Two.

    Really into aliens and flourescent things. Took tons of pictures with a black light and highlighter liquid poured into water so it would glow.

    Thought I was a cowboy. Had tons of boots, cowboy hats and chewed tobacco. Even raised goats in highschool agriculture courses and subscribed to the typical country boy ideologies ( you can guess what I mean but can proudly say I grew out of that pretty fast in college). tbh raising goats was very fun.

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    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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      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.

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    Being undiagnosed autistic at the time, I suspect everything I did was. I also don’t know because I thought everything was fine.

    I could go find some people I went to school with, but one, I hope they don’t remember me, and two I hope they all moved far away and are super successful.

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    I thought I was far superior to people because I liked Pink Floyd and their music is actually meaningful and intellectual… yikes. I still like Pink Floyd though

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    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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    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.