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.

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[ethelmay]

About ten or twelve years ago I just started saying "I'm alive."

My husband tends to say "Eh, still standing." People are usually fine with that. Admittedly it works better if he says it cheerfully. I think he started saying it during a time when things were pretty stressful, but now it's habit.