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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
@visakanv
seeing anything that vaguely resembles "X is a Y shredder" always makes me impulsively think "well then you weren't Y in the first place", and if I sit with this for a while I guess it's a consequence of some childhood trauma, around people refusing to believe that my Y is real
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bitcoin appears to be an imagination shredder
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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
@visakanv
for a different example, in Singapore, people say things like, "National Service (mandatory conscription) is a relationship shredder". And it's true, a lot of couples break up when the guy goes into the army. I didn't. I stayed with my girlfriend the whole time, & we got married
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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
@visakanv
I don't want to hurt the feelings of anybody who witnessed their relationship crumble. But what about my feelings, y'know? Why did I have to constantly endure people telling me that I couldn't possibly be serious, because most people aren't serious? That hurts too
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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
@visakanv
I've been agonizing about many versions of this all my life – how different am I really? To what degree am I supposed to disregard how people talk about things because it doesn't apply to me? And how am I to remain "sane" and "well-adjusted" through it all? Should I even try?
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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
@visakanv
The best solution I've come up with so far is to make a deliberate effort to seek out a diverse set of other high-functioning weirdos (and by "high-functioning" I mean radical things like "people who think" and "people who mean what they say") and calibrate with them
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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
@visakanv
I'm just so fucking tired at (1) how many people are unserious, and (2) how I then have to endure "oh, you can't be serious, nobody is serious, 99.99% of everyone who talks like you is full of shit" THAT'S NOT MY FAULT AND I CANT DO ANYTHING ABOUT THAT
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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
@visakanv
yelling doesn't help either I know. I just have to wait. I have to wait another 20 years for people to see that I was fucking serious the whole time. I was there all along. I wrote everything down. I followed through on everything I said. I just have to wait. Fine. I can wait.
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