day 17 of no porn, no TV, no movies, and no video games and i can feel my long-atrophied imagination coming back to life
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I’ve been doing this for 90% of my life ama
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yo that’s sick. how would you describe the effects? or like differences you notice between yourself and other people that seem related?
I’ve also been doing this almost my whole life, stopped the entirely by 7th grade, never into the other two. Two observations: (1) I often sense being out of touch with mainstream culture — but I have no issue with this. (2) immediately pulled toward people who also happen to not
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…have really watched tv/movies growing up. Their personalities tend to seem more nuanced, but that could easily be because I know them better. But they are definitely more ok with my lack of fluency in mainstream culture. I don’t always know the “normal” responses to things and
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not really sure, I’ve had few close friends as well and got on twitter to try to make them.
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I’d say my mind is prone to living in objective reality instead of predicting what news/fiction thinks will happen
this means small details matter, this means narratives have much less power over me
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