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  • Flocklesscrow@lemm.eetoComic Strips@lemmy.worldCatch-22
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    7 days ago

    I was just making a joke, but you’re right- it’s a learned coping mechanism from iteration after iteration of excruciating relationships.

    I find most people are deeply selfish and lacking in awareness, and generally unobservant to the physical and metaphorical world around us. Eventually, it’s simply easier to withdraw and try to be content with online human interaction, and real life experiences with my family and my dog. Community comes with too many strings and demands that I present as someone not myself- at least in all such attempts to-date. When I was younger and it felt more necessary to participate, I dulled society with booze and weed. Now I prefer to see clearly, though perhaps still missing the clarity that others innately possess, in social scenarios.