shii410
I'm not black I'm O. J.
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I started browsing the internet and using it as my primary form of social interaction in like 2012, when I was really really young. looking back on it I think this has had an overwhelmingly negative effect on me
being actively exposed to all the serious/toxic/dramatic/sexual/etc elements of internet social groups, generally composed of teenagers/adults who have dysfunctional personalities irl, is just too much at once for someone that young. I was completely isolated from people my age (initially due to awkwardness and autism and later just from being homeschooled) which amplified the issue. I genuinely think that aspect of my development fucked me up mentally more than my inceldom, at least in regards to being able to relate to/socialize with people irl.
there were some benefits to it I guess. it gave me a lot of experience in articulating and writing out my thoughts for one, more than most people get in their lifetime. but overall I feel like being socialized near exclusively by the internet has given me an extremely pessimistic view on life and completely fucked my ability interact with people normally or even engage with irl social situations. can anyone else relate?
tbh my fondest childhood memories are before I discovered online forums and shit, when I was just a kid who liked to watch dragon ball z and play on the nintendo DS. very fun, innocent times. I look back on those days very fondly and feel like I was, in large part, robbed of them. it's sad to me how many people in gen z will end up going through a similar experience, given how ubiquitous mobile devices and the internet are now
being actively exposed to all the serious/toxic/dramatic/sexual/etc elements of internet social groups, generally composed of teenagers/adults who have dysfunctional personalities irl, is just too much at once for someone that young. I was completely isolated from people my age (initially due to awkwardness and autism and later just from being homeschooled) which amplified the issue. I genuinely think that aspect of my development fucked me up mentally more than my inceldom, at least in regards to being able to relate to/socialize with people irl.
there were some benefits to it I guess. it gave me a lot of experience in articulating and writing out my thoughts for one, more than most people get in their lifetime. but overall I feel like being socialized near exclusively by the internet has given me an extremely pessimistic view on life and completely fucked my ability interact with people normally or even engage with irl social situations. can anyone else relate?
tbh my fondest childhood memories are before I discovered online forums and shit, when I was just a kid who liked to watch dragon ball z and play on the nintendo DS. very fun, innocent times. I look back on those days very fondly and feel like I was, in large part, robbed of them. it's sad to me how many people in gen z will end up going through a similar experience, given how ubiquitous mobile devices and the internet are now