ZachGoodwin wrote:
dragonsanddemons wrote:
Almost everyone I've met in person acts like it. Even people who know me, usually we just exchange a greeting and then they start talking with someone else and completely ignore me. My family does it, too. But eh, it's what I'm used to now - I have pretty bad social anxiety anyway, so I don't like to talk.
I would have brushed all of that off and then continue on to the next day.
The problem is, it happens again the next day, and the day after that, and so on. But it helps that on WP, people do pay attention and actually seem to care about what I have to say.
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Yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage. For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
-H. P. Lovecraft, "The Outsider"