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  • Niceguy

    "Why aren't girls interested in guys like me?! 😭"

    Because you're weird and overbearing.

  • Edgy atheist.

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

  • 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.

  • I watched Star Trek, Pokemon, Gargoyles and Dino Adventure Jurassic Tripper - all of those ran on TV here, which was awesome.
    Apart from that, I probably read four to five books every week and I even won a reading contest at the local library one time. They loved me so much there, they just gave me books sometimes to keep for myself. (That's how I discovered "The Day of the Triffids", and it's glorious.)

    I was extremely into that whole "Native American" thing and read all kinds of fiction about it. I loved the Winnetou movies to death and I must've read the whole works of Karl May. That was definitely cringe and a lot of people made fun of me because of that. I still think they're pretty well written books, but not unproblematic, of course.

    Apart from that, I tinkered a lot with electronics and got pretty good at soldering and semi-good at fixing circuits. When I was seven years old, my dad bought a computer and I learned how to work with DOS, Win95 and Linux. I definitely was a weird kid and I didn't have many friends (still don't), but I enjoyed my childhood regardless of that, because my parents supported all of my endeavours.

    I listened to rave and techno music, which was very unusual here in North Germany. None of the radio stations played it, but we had cable radio so I was able to listen to it and fall in love with it. Needless to say, a young teenager listening to Scooter screaming "HOW MUCH IS THE FISH?" just increased the level of teasing from my classmates. But fuck them, it was great music to dance to!

    Nowadays I work as a coder in a small advertising agency, so I guess my childhood prepared me pretty well for my adulthood. Overcoming social anxiety was hard, though. I only achieved that in my late 20s. Turns out that growing up as an only child in a small village messes with your head a little bit.

    Edit: Oh, and I was hardcore against alcohol, for some stupid reason. I never drank anything and when my friends went to a party and had a good time, I was an ass about it afterwards. For some reason I wanted everyone to be as abstinent as me, lol. Nowadays I drink occasionally and I enjoy it, I don't know what was up with me back then.

  • 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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