Romantic relationships come and go as people navigate the dating world to find that special someone.
And while love can be fleeting, good friendships are everlasting–with "good" being the operative word here.
People rely on good friendships–which involve a person who is loyal, trustworthy, and someone who is always there for you to commiserate with over a slice of cheesecake well into your golden years.
However, not all friendships are created equal, and like how lovers become exes, friendships can dissolve just as easily.
Curious to hear examples of this, Redditor Proof_Mark_5232 asked:
"What made you cut off a friendship?"
There can't be selfishness involved in healthy friendships.
All About Them
"I don't like quantifying friendships, but for one I noticed that the other person would almost always exclusively talk about themselves, always with a tone of doing a favor, or being a privilege, or wanting something."
"I added up how many times they asked me how I was doing, and I had counted 2 times this year. On one occurrence, I mentioned this and they said 'Yeah, I don't.' and continued talking about themselves."
"I slowly stopped putting in the effort, and things have naturally drifted apart. Super sucks, but I would rather friendships/relationships to be a 2 way street."
– SgtTamama
Strapped For Cash
"They got mad when I didn’t give them $5000."
– chief_sitass
Effects Of Negativity
"She was just toxic. Did nothing but complain every time we talked or hung out. The final straw is when I had my mental breakdown and she tried to make it about her. Negativity is so mentally draining."
– Elleseebee928
It takes two to make friendships work, just like relationships.
The Initiator
"Being the only one to reach out. Once I stopped, the friendship was basically cut off."
– Magister_Hego_Damask
Blame The Virus
"Yeah I think a lot of relationships fizzled through the pandemic. There were just too many people to actively reach out to that I never heard from."
"I will say in the past two years I've reconnected with a couple of them, but not many."
– 1CEninja
Maturity Rate
"Essentially this."
"Been carrying these friendships since high-school and I can count on my fingers the amount of times they've reached out to me to make plans."
"Generally I was the one who asked to do things, and once I stopped doing that I realized it could go weeks without hearing from them."
"Secondly, I also matured."
"Some people are hell bent on living like they're in college, and also could not take any criticism."
"Always someone else fault, and 'I'm not lazy' though actions have spoken way louder than words could ever."
– Nova_Mafia
Some people are just plain mean.
Name-Calling
"super spoiled, but the final straw was him telling me (and others present) that his grandmother was a stupid f'king b*tch for booking his flight back from coachella so early. 'obviously i’m going to be f'king hungover' after she paid for his flight to l.a, and lodging in a fancy l.a hotel for a few days before the festival."
"literally made me ill."
– sweetperdition
"Posh Guy"
"I used to play guitar with my old friend from my town, just 2 guys playing crap and having the time of their lives. I meet another guy who was into bands and stuff so we started hanging out more often the three of us. Me, my good old pal and this new guy (boyfriend of a girl friend of mine from highschool). The new guy was from rich parents, expensive 'everything', good with the guitar and a bit over the top I-know-most-of-the-things kinda guy."
"Not the best, not the worst, not evil but definetly not a simple cool, nice guy... just a posh smart a**. One day the posh guy asked me to go to play guitar with his friends and i say, yeah, lets go. I let my old buddy know what time i was being picked up by car and all good. The posh guy came first with his car, i step in and when i saw he didnt wait for my old buddy i let him know he was coming."
"His face changed dramatically, like if i had dropped some really bad news. So he drive me around and gave me this speech about my good old friend not being invited today for the music jam and 'i didnt said his name, so he is not invited' and bla, bla, bla."
"We actually passed in front of where we were meeting and i saw him, my good old friend there, waiting for us with his guitar and his smile not knowing we were right there in the car, talking about him like he wasnt important, and then i felt like crying, sitting in the car with the posh guy giving me sh*t because i was doing the same than we were doing those days, get people together and play music while getting baked and have a great time."
"It felt like he was making me have to make a decision about them in that moment. After we picked him up you can imagine how fake was the whole evening. Posh guy pissed off, my old pal smiling and playing guitar and having a good time and me there trying to smile and just checking the clock waiting to go home. Funny thing, I already made my mind in the car. I was born in 1979, i would play 'kill'em all' album before any nu metal ever made, thats a principle."
"So after that, i never called the posh guy again, never returned his calls, i lost any interest for him or spending time with him. Nothing, zero. Not even a call to say oh sorry man, ive been busy, yeah we should meet again. I just keep spending the evenings with my good old friend, doing the same we always do."
"A few months after i told him the story. He just laughed and said oh, what a d*ckhead. Since then, i feel so proud of having him as a friend and, and even if im not the best person, son, boyfriend and friend of the people around me, and im not feeling the best with myself neither, i actually feel i did the right thing in that moment and that puts a smile on my face every time."
– Donjuanisit
I've personally never cut off friendships, but the reason why there are people I don't speak to anymore is very common.
People grow apart. It's just a part of life.
Many of us have relocated for a new job, for college, or other life circumstances that prevent us from maintaining our relationships with those we've left behind.
But what I've found pleasantly surprising are the ones I've managed to somehow get back in touch with and pick up right where we left off–with time and distance not having affected our friendship.
Those are the ones I treasure. Skipping town doesn't necessarily mean the end. Not in this day and age of social media.
Just because you understand the concept of something, you can't assume it's common knowledge.
Sometimes, people can ask bizarre questions that can either make you doubt your own intelligence or make you want to grab them by the shoulders and shake them back to reality.
Look, they say there are no such things as stupid questions. But these strangers online would beg to differ.
Curious to hear some ridiculous examples about peoples's intelligence, Redditor forthrightchubby asked:
"What is the most ridiculous thing that you have ever had to explain to somebody?"
If only these people actually stopped to think about what they were about to ask, it would save them a huge embarrassment.
Spoiler alert: they did not stop to think about what they were about to ask.
Clarifying Demographics
"That black people in Africa are not 'African-American.'"
Years ago, France was having some riots, it was primarily African immigrants upset with how they were being treated, I think. In any case there were a lot of angry black dudes in the crowd, who were referred to as "African Americans" by some of our, United States, news media.
A Direct Messenger
"I'm a mailman. Sometimes have to tell people 'YOU are Current Resident.'"
Pizza Magicians
"That pizzas aren't cooked in pizza boxes."
"Had a regular customer at an Italian place I worked once exclaim that we were magicians, because he couldn't even reheat his pizza without nearly burning his house down."
"Mind you, this was at a counter that faced the end of the pizza oven - customers could literally watch you take it from the oven, off the oven tray & into the takeaway box."
"Somehow, he just never put the pieces together. Would try to reheat leftovers, crank his oven at home up, put the whole box in & have it catch on fire every time."
"The look on his face when I explained has stayed with me for a decade."
Wrong Balloons
"That helium is a gas you have to pump into balloons that make them float. There are no 'helium/non-helium balloons.' I was blowing up balloons with a coworker using our mouths and she was confused why they weren't floating. She thought we had bought the 'non-helium' kind by mistake."
– abae17
Beastly Myth
"My ex-boss thought that King Kong was a true story. I had to patiently explain the truth."
– RunDNA
This Statement Was The Catastrophe
"Someone tried to convince me that boats were not invented in the days of the Titanic."
"Their literal words were 'boats did not exist when the Titanic sank...'"
– Arge101
Sometimes, people just have to put two and two together. But there's no guarantee they'll arrive at a realization.
Does Not Calculate
"I had to spend far too long trying to convince the HR person at my work that a sum of time adding up to 136 minutes was more than an hour and 36 minutes."
Things That Are Normal Where You Live But Crazy Anywhere Else | George Takei’s Oh Myyy
Free Money
"When I was 10, I had to explain to my 18 year old half-brother that he had to have money in a bank account to back up what he wrote on checks. He thought a checkbook was a magical book of free money everyone got when they turned 18."
Criminal Activity
"At university, some intro to business class."
"This girl didn't understand profit. That you could buy a good for a certain price and sell it for a higher price. She thought that was illegal."
Earth's Expiration Date
"Back when I was teaching, I had to tell a classroom of 9 year olds that the Earth wasn't going to end in December 2012 and then having to tell THEIR PARENTS that the world wasn't ending in December 2012. When they asked how I was so sure, I said, 'Come see me in January 2013 and I'll explain it to you then.' Four kids' parents showed up in January 2013 and demanded to know how I knew the world wasn't going to end.... THAT was the most ridiculous thing I've ever had to explain. Fact: Stupid parents are the primary reason teachers quit teaching with bad administrators being a distant second."
Powering The Sun
"I was sitting outside looking at the stars with the person I was dating. The sky was exceptionally clear and dark and I mentioned how bright the stars were."
"They replied with 'Yeah, it was super sunny today so they got a good recharge!' Straight face, not an ounce of sarcasm or hint of a joke."
"I had to explain, to a 40 year old parent, that stars are similar to our sun and produce their own light. They are not the same as the glow-in-dark star stickers that their child had in their bedroom."
Having patience with clueless customers can really test your limits.
The Mocktail
"At the beginning of the pandemic I worked at a grocery store and we had Pedialyte on an end cap. I had to explain to two men that it was not alcohol and you shouldn't wash your hands with it. It took me like 5 minutes to convince them."
Now, Picture This
"Working in Michaels frame department a lady said she was looking for a 10x8" frame, but all she could find on the floor were 8x10' frames. Grabbed a frame, flipped it horizontally and sent her on her way."
Coupon Computation
"I deal with the general public on a daily basis. Needless to say I die a little each day. 5pm today until 5pm tomorrow = 24 hours. Loads of basic math. Here is one example though: Customer buying a 12 pack of beer. Beer had a $3 coupon that required the purchase of two bags of chips. Lady proceeds to buy the two bags of chips (about $7) so she could use said coupon. Then gives the chips away because she didn't want them she just wanted to save $3 off her beer. I tried explaining that she just paid four extra dollars instead of saving three. She didn't believe me."
The Bagging Method
"I worked at a grocery store and we packed the customers items for them."
"Customer had an insulated bag he brought with him, so I put the cold food in there."
"He got mad at me because I did not also include the hot rotisserie chicken."
"He believed that the bag would keep hot things hot and cold things cold even if you put them in together."
"I could have explained this to him. But I didn't care. So I just said my bad, put the chicken in and sent him on his way."
Many of these comments involved mathematics, revealing most people had problems with numbers – a common insecurity.
One would hope in time, they actually grasp basic computational skills.
But when it comes to claims of mythical creatures existing in real life, or our sun requiring a good charge to power through another day of brilliance for the denizens of earth, some of these out of touch individuals are just way off their orbit.
May they get back on track to a better understanding of basic common knowledge.
If there's one thing I think most of humanity can agree on, it's that people are annoying. People are the worst.
You'd think they'd get the simplest concepts into their heads but they don't... and then they have the audacity to fight you on it.
Take this pandemic, for example.
Why are we still arguing over whether people should wear masks? The fact that so many people refuse to wear a piece of cloth is ridiculous when there's a deadly virus going around.
What's up with that?
After Redditor moneybot13 asked the online community:
"What are you sick of explaining to other people?"
"There is no law..."
Legal does not equal moral. Moral does not equal legal.
Example: Yes, I agree that the executor of the estate should notify you of what's going on with gram gram's estate. Yes, I understand being left in the cold sucks. No, I cannot do anything about it, because while s****, it is NOT illegal. There is no law against being an a-hole.
If only more people understood this.
Unfortunately, some of the biggest a-holes are family.
"As long as it's not hurting anyone..."
You don't have to understand someone's hobby to just accept that they enjoy it. As long as it's not hurting anyone, let them have fun.
Believe it or not...
...it's really as simple as that. Why bother other people? Why "yuck their yum," so to speak? It's pointless, isn't it?
Exactly.
This next one is super relatable.
"That being depressed..."
That being depressed isn't (necessarily) about lying in bed all day.
It certainly isn't.
Depression manifests differently for different people.
"Wanting others to have a better life..."
Wanting others to have a better life than we had should be the GOAL, and forcing hardships on others simply because you had to endure it is a really crappy way to live your life.
We definitely see this...
...in the United States concerning the student loan debate. It's awful.
"That's it's okay..."
That's it's okay to let people live their lives even if you don't agree with them.
Ah, so simple!
As long as no one is hurting anybody, leave them be.
"That I'm not an introvert..."
That I'm not an introvert for not wanting to go to a family gathering. No, Mom, it's because they're constantly being annoying.
Yes!
I have memories of all the annoying family members whose BS I had to suffer through because I was being forced to attend some ridiculous gathering.
Thankfully I'm an adult and spared that nonsense now.
"I just don't like..."
That me being a quiet person doesn't mean I'm angry all the time.
I just don't like talking as much as most people. Unfortunately, I don't even get the chance to explain before they judge me anyway.
Why do people have so many strange opinions about quieter folk?
At times, it truly does seem that the world is made strictly for introverts.
"I'm just sick of them..."
How to sell things online or in an antique mall.
I'm relatively successful selling on Etsy and in person and it's a hell of a lot of work. People ask me how I do it and I could talk till I'm blue in the face and they'll list 10 crappy things which will never sell like Norman Rockwell Collector Plates and complain they never sell anything like it's my fault. Or they'll get a booth and put those damn plates in and never ever make their rent and ask me how to make it better and then not do anything I told them to.
Funny how these people are always victims. "I tried but it didn't work." No, you didn't try. Not even close.
I'm just sick of them asking me for advice and then not doing anything I told them. Like, why ask?
If you are successful selling things...
...then you're running a business.
Most people are not business-minded.
"People either think..."
That I, a woman, don't want children. People either think you're lying or you'll grow out of it.
People really need to leave women well enough alone.
If they don't want children, then that decision should be respected.
"That there is still so much stigma..."
That there is still so much stigma towards mental illness. Especially mood disorders and those that are deemed "f**** up enough" to sensationalize through film and television. It really affects those of us who are just trying to be okay, not harm others, and not harm ourselves.
If only people weren't so insufferable.
Life would be a lot easier, don't you agree?
Good thing I'm indoors and not looking outside at all the people passing by who aren't wearing their masks, otherwise I'd be going a bit crazy.
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People Describe The Strangest Thing They've Ever Experienced That They Can't Logically Explain
Have you ever experienced something that never made sense no matter how much you wracked your brain?
The unexplainable phenomenon is something many people apparently experienced when Redditor elibwell asked:
"What is the strangest thing that happened to you that you can't logically explain?"
Life is strange. Or our minds are the ultimate hoodwinkers.
What logic-defying events still haunt you today?
Ken Waved At Me
"As a child visiting my Grandma's house (My Mum's - mum), whenever I left the house I'd wave next door to Ken who was always sat in the bay window looking out at the sea. They lived right on the coast off the North Sea in Hartlepool (UK) We'd never really talk, but just a little wave before I went to get into the car."
"One time I'm leaving my Grans house, I'm in front of my Mum who's stopped at the door to talk to my Gran. So I head down the steps and towards the gate. I turn back and see Ken in the window. Big smile as usual, waving at me. I give him a wave back. He stands up, gives me the thumbs up, and wanders towards the back of the room. My Mum comes walking down the steps and asks 'Who are you waving at?' I replied 'Ken.'"
"To this day, I can remember my mam's face. She just went white, but didn't say anything to me."
"It was only a few weeks later when she plucked up the courage to tell me, that Ken had died a few days prior to our visit to my Grans."
"I don't believe in ghosts, but I know I saw him. I can still picture his striped grey sweater with light stripes across it. Him waving and getting up out of his chair. There was no-one else in the house, he lived by himself."
"Brains are weird."
Vanishing Belt
"I once was changing pants in my room before work and took off my belt. After putting on my other pair of pants, I went to put my belt back on but it belt was gone. No one else was in the room and I spent a good 10 minutes looking for it as I had simply set it on the floor. It's been 10 years and I've never seen that belt again."
– JonesE27
Disembodied Voice
"I'm a firefighter and we got a call for an overdose around 3 am to a rough part of our district in the middle of winter. Unfortunately the patient was long gone and her dealer or whatever found her like that when he dropped some stuff. As we were packing up our stuff mind you this is a absolutely trashed mobile home, I hear something down the hall that said 'lights?' I ask my partner if he said anything as it was just him and I cleaning up he said no. I walk to the far end of the trailer where I heard it and shine my flashlight I get a reflection out of the window. They have a small tool shed and it had a flickering light, it peeked my interest so my partner and I go out there. We hear crying and notice the door is padlocked. We cut it, and this little six year old girl was in there. She said her mom puts her in there when she gets mad at her. She said she got scared when she heard the sirens and didn't know what to do. To this day I have no idea what happened or where the voice came from, but I'll take the win on it."
Sounds Painful
"I once shut my ear in a car door. No idea how, have tried to recreate it and can't, but my god that hurt!"
– meehaja
A Soft Landing
"This one is strange to me because it was so long ago and I'm convinced I have to be remembering things wrong. I was a young kid at the grocery store and I saw this toy helicopter (like hot wheel sized) that I really wanted for some reason. I, of course, didn't buy it, but it the memory of it stuck in my head. A few nights later, I had a dream where I was playing with the helicopter, but I realized it was a dream and stupid young me thought that if I put it under my pillow, it would still be there when I woke up. After that, I woke up and eagerly checked under the pillow to get it. For some reason, it was right where I left it in the dream. As a kid, I wasn't surprised to find it there as it all made perfect since to me then, but years later I have no clue how the toy helicopter actually got underneath the pillow."
– Rawhited
How Did We Get Here?
"When I was about 12 years old I went up to Lake Tahoe with my friend and his parents who had a condo in Incline Village. One day, the two of us are walking to the bowling alley and cross a street in a crosswalk. Right before we get to the curb, a car comes really close to hitting us. All of a sudden, we're both up on the curb, like we were lifted a few feet. We both looked at each other strangely."
"Did you jump?"
"No, did you?"
"No"
"We spent the next hour kind of dumbfounded. It didn't feel like a shove or any use of force. We were still in the street, then we weren't."
– Plumhawk
Unscathed
"I hit a patch of black ice in the dark going 60mph down the highway. At the time, I drove a 1 ton cargo van. It hit the guard rail and flipped. Not only did I walk away without a scratch, the car was drivable and I was only 30 min late to work."
Doesn't Add Up
"When I was younger, in elementary school, I used to have the same dream every weekend starting on Saturday (when I would go to sleep) and then waking up in the middle of the night (on Sunday) and throwing up. The dream was always a bunch of numbers. Not even anything happening just a bunch of random jumbled up numbers all over the place. I never understood why that happened where the same dream would happen on the same night every week and I would throw up every single time. I always think about it and wonder what it was or if it was just some weird coincidence. Also I would not have any signs of being sick before or after. Maybe someone else has experienced this???"
Mandella Effect
"I have a vivid memory of being at the Statue of Liberty as a child, on my dad's shoulders, seeing the skyline of NYC. I remember what we ate for lunch that day, etc. I remember the ferry we took. I've always thought about this memory and talked about it, but my family denies I ever went to NYC. I didn't go for the first time until I was 23, but strangely enough, when I went, I remembered everything just how it had been when I was there with my dad."
The Unexpected Reunion
"Long story short, I lost a jacket at a roller rink when I was in 3rd grade. I had a lucky rabbit foot in the pocket that I bought at the skate shop inside."
"Months later, my mother, who is adopted, found her birth mother and her half sister. The first time I went to my newly found Aunt's house, she said she had a jacket that might fit me. It was my jacket, rabbit foot still in the pocket."
Guardian Angel
"I have very vivid and intense dreams. One night when I was around thirteen or fourteen I was dreaming of a safari hunt for t-rexes and we had to save a golden idol from pirates in the jungle. Strange dream but during it, while running, everything suddenly stopped. I saw myself face me (not sure how to phrase that) and I said, 'Amythystia wake up! Everything is about to shake and you're in danger. Wake up!'"
"I woke up instantly and sat up confused. Roughly fifteen seconds later my boxer puppy woke up and started whimpering and whining and the rabbit I had started hopping in his cage. Seconds later an earthquake occured. It wasn't very big, but strong enough to knock several photos down and my shelf. Now this specific shelf was mounted above my head. It was made of a very thick type of wood and on it was a collection of random 'prized' items, including a quart jar filled with sand and shells, several large books, a heavy statuette, etc. Sufficient to say it was quite heavy. When it fell, it fell directly onto my pillow where my head had been a moment before. I hadn't ever felt an earthquake and live in a northern midwest state that rarely gets earthquakes strong enough to be felt."
"I have had other dreams since that foreshadowed events but that was the only one that happened immediately after. It still gives me chills."
Same Frequency
"I swear my 4 year old can read my mind or we think on the same wavelength sometimes. I've randomly thought of a specific food (ie ice cream which we rarely have) and he ask me 'can we get ice cream?.' Or I'll be thinking about my mom and he'll ask 'can we go to grandmas?.'"
Unseen Visitor
"When I was 10 I had a radio and bean bag chair in my room. As I was starting to fall asleep the radio suddenly changed the channel multiple times before I heard the bean bag chair in my room slowly fold in on its self making the noise a bean bag chair would make if someone where to sit in it. Not sure what caused this but certainly freaked me out."
The Creeper
"We used to live on a semi main road right off of Main Street in my hometown. The house was over 100 years old. We had a stairwell from the first floor to the second floor that was completely walled in with only an archway/doorway with no door.If you sat in our living room on either of the couches at any time of day, you might just see a dark head pop around the corner of the archway/doorway and stare at you. If you look straight at him he'll duck back into the stairwell, but you watch him go. He doesn't just disappear or fade away, you can actually see his head duck back into the stairwell. We all saw it, and various friends of ours would report it to us randomly too without us ever mentioning it to them. My mom tried talking to him but he never responded. Just stared at us from afar. The most anybody ever actually saw of him was part of his chest/shoulder."
For people that do or behave in any way that departs from the "norm"--whatever that is--conversations with strangers can be exhausting. Whenever that atypical attribute rears its head, someone demands a complete description.
For the person asking, that might be an interesting couple of minutes.
But for the person answering, that is the thousandth time they've had to offer up an explanation for something so commonplace in their own experience.
A recent Reddit thread allowed users to set the record straight, once and for all.
Sarazar asked, "What are you sick of explaining?"
Science Lessons
"The difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes and that I was born with it and didn't get it from eating sugar." -- joe_bogan
"And for me, that there are more than two types of diabetes." -- bopeepsheep
Computer Stuff
"I'm a programmer, I write programs. I do not know how to fix your laptop that won't turn on." -- -PM_me_your_recipes-
"I am an analyst. I'm not a programmer. I don't code. I don't program. I don't know how to make space in your android phone." -- Lasdary
"You are lying, I saw the Mario bros movie I know that gamers, hackers, programmers, and computer engineers are basically the same thing." -- that_guy_you_remembe
Farm Deets
"Hobby Farmer here."
"A chicken is not the female. That's the name of the animal. The hen is the female."
"No you don't need roosters for hens to lay eggs. They've been bred over hundreds to thousands of years to lay a lot of eggs."
"Yes an animal needs to become pregnant in order to produce milk, just like a person. They don't just one day become mature enough and become a perpetual milk factory."
"Hay and Straw are two different things. Hay is dried grass or other leafy plants. It's what a lot of ruminants and horses eat. Straw is the dead stems of a crop like barley or wheat. It is inedible and usually used for bedding."
"Goats don't eat trash but they are the cats of the livestock world and will get into and destroy everything you know and love. There is a reason they are associated with the Devil."
-- soline
What's It to Ya
"Why I use a wheelchair/sticks."
"No, I didn't have an accident, I didn't break anything, my body just doesn't work very well. Go away."
A Classic Annoyance
"My colour blindness. Basically as soon as anyone finds out, they point at something and ask "what colour is this?" Before anyone asks, I have Deuteranopia which is red/green." -- dimensional-scream
"I have deuteranopia also -it's annoying. People expect me to be able to tell them HOW what I see is different to what THEY see. How the f*** am I to explain it to you, I can't see how you see?" -- tandem_biscuit
It's Invisible, Just Trust Me
"Allergies, e.g. against pollen or food."
"Pollen is flying around not only in summer and the symptoms are not always red eyes or sneezing. So just because you cannot see, that someone is not feeling well it still can be the case."
"Or food allergies and you are judged as being picky. Please just accept, that some people cannot eat everything."
"Probably there are other allergies and explaining at some point is just sooo tiresome."
Burger Routers
"That Bluetooth does not use your mobile data. This has been explained countless times to my dad." -- Pigrs
"And that the 5GHz channel on my router isn't the same as 5G mobile data. I've given up on explaining this one..." -- Fl4shbang
"Look, they both have 5 and g in the name. They also make 5 Guys Burgers in there right?" -- BasroilII
Quiet Does Not Mean Upset
"Why I don't really talk, I am so sick of being asked 'why are you so quiet' because I just am. I can talk to people and understand social cues but I don't speak unless I think I'm adding something." -- BrainDead14
"Oh boy does that hit home. I think most people don't feel comfortable with silence, but I f***ing love it. I don't see what's wrong with just being quiet unless you actually have something to say."
"It's even worse with my parents. For some reason I barely talk with them, just the thought of talking to them makes me feel tired, and I sometimes feel bad about it, but it's just the way it is for me." -- joergio6
Just Don't Like the Stuff
"Why I don't drink alcohol. I mean, I don't feel like I need to explain that one, but other people want me to. Is it really such a crime?" -- BlueBlanketsareBest
"Hate this. Especially because I don't really have a reason for it, I simply don't want to" -- i-just-carry-on
Cultural Narratives
"I have Schizophrenia, and usually when I get to know someone I tell them I have it just as a little warning and what to do if it gets out of hand, but before I can even explain that they always say 'omg u have schizophrenia! So you have two personalities and kill people like that person from that one tv show?!'"
"no, no I do not kill people, the media has a sh** representation of the condition. So I always then have to spend the next 20 mins explaining what it is."
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