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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Feeling that if you're not doing this you're not "living" |
| chris1989 |
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Replies: 0
Views: 36
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| I once knew someone who was "friends" with me on Facebook who was about 5 years younger than me who seem to be from the photos I saw, about and about somewhere with friends from university even in their early 30s and still going to a club, going out for the day somewhere or abroad with tho... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Feeling ridiculous being scared of thunder? |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 1:00 pm
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Replies: 9
Views: 218
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| I've thought to myself if past experiences with thunderstorms have left me with some kind of trauma because I can remember a few times when we had very intense storms, one of which was as a kid on holiday in menorca and there was constant lightning and thunder which as a result delayed our flight ho... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Why do people still marry rather young now? |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 6:35 pm
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Replies: 25
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| As far as I understand, 60 years ago, my grandparents all got married and had my parents when they were only in their early/mid 20s and I bet a lot of other people's grandparents did the same thing. But it surprises me how there are and were millennials and older gen-zers who also got married and ha... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: How do people have more friends in adulthood? |
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Posted: 26 Jun 2025, 5:48 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 2,345
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| I used to be friends on social media with someone who I met at college. I used to see photos of her with friends at concerts, holidays, parties, having a whale of a time during her 20s and early 30s. Some of these friends three or four of whom I recognised because she would be out with these particu... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Been single for too long and worried about a relationship |
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Posted: 24 Jun 2025, 10:09 am
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Replies: 1
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| I seem to feel that because I've been single for a long time and have only been out with women as "friends" it's making me worry I'll never get into a relationship because I have times where I do hobbies and things on my own or go out on my own a lot, and worried I'll struggle to ease away... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why haven't things got better since the pandemic? |
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Posted: 24 Jun 2025, 8:52 am
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| Since "normality" started easing after the pandemic, it doesn't feel like anything has got better as I thought it would. There have been wars in Ukraine, Gaza and now Israel and Iran are not fighting one another along with another 50+ conflicts currently going on in the world. I don't what... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: How do I stop jealousy of others' achievements? |
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Posted: 23 Jun 2025, 10:18 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 965
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| As others have said, you really need to learn to accept yourself. It is not easy to do, as I struggle with that every day. Live your life the way you want it to become. It may be hard and require work to get there. That is part of setting and accomplishing goals in life. Just be careful in making g... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Wishing I was working with people younger than me. |
| chris1989 |
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Posted: 22 Jun 2025, 9:19 am
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| I'm the youngest in the team I work with. Most of us are in our 30s, one in their 40s and my assistant manager is 61. I do know because they've talked about it, that three of the 30+ year olds have kids and partners and one is married so is the one in her mid or late 40s. Ian, my assistant manager f... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: How do I stop jealousy of others' achievements? |
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Posted: 18 Jun 2025, 7:57 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 965
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babybird wrote: I don't know where all there high achievers are to be honest but where ever they are they more than likely will have made a lot of sacrifices to achieve all the great things you speak of
When you say sacrifices what do you mean? Sorry that's sounds an absurd question to ask |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: How do I stop jealousy of others' achievements? |
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Posted: 17 Jun 2025, 12:01 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 965
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| I seem to find myself sometimes feeling like an "under achiever" because I've seen people who achieve great things before they are even 30 for example. I mean like musicians, professional sportsmen and women, people who run businesses only in their 20s. I had little interest in doing a spo... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Why do I feel this way every time people talk about kids? |
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Posted: 16 Jun 2025, 1:41 pm
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Replies: 1
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| I don't know but at some dinner times and people are talking about their days and start talking about their colleagues with kids or my sister and her son. I sometimes find myself feeling like not always wanting to talk about it. It makes it just aggravate the thoughts that everyone has "moved o... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: I don't fit in with social groups for others with autism |
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Posted: 16 Jun 2025, 12:15 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 4,277
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Mona Pereth wrote: chris1989 wrote: People have said you need to find others who have similar interests to you but even that feels hard. What are your interests?
Reading, writing, sometimes going out to places shopping for books, some new clothes etc. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: How come some people do things at the same certain stage... |
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Posted: 15 Jun 2025, 1:10 pm
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| Of life? If life is not always in our control, how come I've seen people do things at certain stages of life compared to me and others like learning to drive at 17, graduating from university at 22, getting married to a long term partner in the late 20s, having first child in the early 30s. None of ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Never went out in a car with a loud bunch of friends |
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Posted: 12 Jun 2025, 12:08 pm
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Replies: 1
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| I don't know why but because I saw some guys in car presumably in their late teens/early 20s, it makes me feel like I've strangely missed out on not driving around in a car with friends of the same age, joking around and going for a drive somewhere. I wouldn't have wanted to drink and drive knowing ... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Feeling like I'm missing out on everything... |
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Posted: 09 Jun 2025, 3:50 pm
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Replies: 2
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| Or I'm not using my time more wisely to want to do things. I can't understand why I feel this way, it's almost like the world is going to end or time is running out for me because unlike other people I'm not all the time travelling the world, having a lot of good social times with friends and family... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Rushing things seems to make me anxious |
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Posted: 08 Jun 2025, 6:59 am
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Replies: 35
Views: 11,917
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| I know this sounds ridiculous as I don't know what goes on in other people's lives and relationships and I don't know how many have kids and don't have kids or don't want kids but it does feel like a lot of people are at that stage whereas a few years ago they were probably still single and so on. T... |
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