scraped someones bumper

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so I was turning around on a tight street and when I stopped to reverse my car kept sliding forward on the snow. I did not hit the car till I started to reverse and the bumper of my car slipped into theirs
there was no damage to my car but it scraped the paint a little on theirs
we exchanged insurance info

this really sucks because I dont have the money to pay for this and the damage was really minor but their bumper already had a hole in it from backing into something. I hope I dont get stuck with paying for a new bumper on a beat up old car.

the more I think about it the more I think about how I should just kill myself everything I do goes wrong

Kill yourself over a scraped bumper? That's a bit of an over reaction, isn't it? Try not to worry about it so much. Sometimes we tend to build things up so big in our minds that we throw ourselves into unnecessary panic. I do it all the time. Always seems like the end of the world when I mess up. We really need to learn to take it easy like NT's do. They don't stress over these things and neither should we.

its not just the bumper its the fact that if anything in my life can go wrong its going to go wrong, if it can break its probably going to break for me

Chris, please take it from this old fart, there WILL be a tomorrow if only you allow it.

even the worst liability insurance should cover it

it's not worth worrying about man. i know how autistics, myself especially, get caught up obsessively worrying about such things. but it's a very minor accident driving in winter weather. it happens to everybody. i've had a winter weather accident involving a totaled vehicle.