• vortexal@lemmy.ml
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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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    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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    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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    Chūnibyō (中二病, lit. ‘middle-school second-year syndrome’) is a Japanese colloquial term typically used to describe adolescents with delusions of grandeur. These teenagers are thought to desperately want to stand out and convince themselves that they have hidden knowledge or secret powers.

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    I had a bit of a David Icke phase when I was a teenager. Thankfully, that ended!

  • klemptor@startrek.website
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    Animé from ages 15-18. It was the mid-to-late '90s and only the weird kids were into animé. My social life improved immensely when I grew out of that phase.

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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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    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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      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.