To the point where in his own diary and according to his closest friends he could be said to have what we'd call social anxiety disorder
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He had a deliberate strategy of working really hard at rehearsing a bunch of, essentially, stand up comedy and storytelling bits
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He'd show up early at a party, make a huge show of meeting everyone as they came in, dominate the conversation with hilarious patter
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And then after having made an impression as the life of the party he'd disappear half an hour in
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Everyone assumed he was so cool he was talking to a more important inner circle but in fact he just ghosted to his room to read by himself
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All you hipster nerds who think you invented that trick, you did not, Abraham Lincoln did, and used it to become President
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Probably far too nerdy to be elected today
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Oh without a doubt. Plus the whole weird voice and freakishly tall/skinny things. Not made for this era at all.
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I also relate to how he took a lot of shit because since he was a big reader he mispronounced many words he'd only seen in print
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Like how good he was as an orator was hotly debated at the time bc lots of ppl mocked his hick accent and discomfort w ten-dollar words
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The irony being that he actually *knew* plenty more ten-dollar words than most people BECAUSE he read so much, damned if you do, etc.
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