Don't think you're immune—it could be happening to you

[sovay]

Nothing has happened recently to highlight it, but I am going through another round of furiously resenting that I had to develop social skills. I did, of course, and people I trust tell me they're good, and I am actively not interested in being a jerk. Other people were a more alien language to me than Akkadian and I learned them. That's an accomplishment. But all I really wanted, even into grad school, was to be good at things and left alone. I thought for years that if the first part were true enough, the second would follow automatically.

Comments

[selkie]

It would be some easier, though not perfect, if you had been born in a male body; male bodies get a lot of passes we don't and they get labelled 'eccentric' over 'antisocial.'

It Makes Me Want to Unironically Die to self-promote; like the work or don't! I made it exist and now it is up to you! ...but it isn't like that. It's been a real thing to learn.

You should save that last sentence for something; it came to you from somewhere good and it stands out like a real gift, even if it hurt.

[sovay]

You should save that last sentence for something; it came to you from somewhere good and it stands out like a real gift, even if it hurt.

Thank you. I will keep it.

*hugs*