Submitted by Exlurker in lobby

My Anarchy started when I was pushed out of virtually all social groups starting from kindergarden and going into primary school when I would just walk around aimlessly all Morning Tea and Lunch periods. This really helped cement passivity into my every fibre and it endures to this day. Finding the internet hardly helped and soon I was just going on Wikipedia binges. At High School I started making an effort to be sociable but my Autism had me mostly pretending to be friends with people who never told me where they were at lunch break. This really lowered my standards for friendship and helped reinforce my passivity. Even in all three of my Wintec Courses I tried to make longer-term friends or at least a study group and failed.

I wouldn't know anything about Anarchism if it wasn't for being passive and binging the internet.

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subrosa wrote

I'm somewhat lucky in that I got to experience the whole spectrum, I got to play a variety of 'roles' in different social environments. The trying to vaguely fit in shit can get real humiliating and exhausting, even threatening. Enough to want all school buildings go up in flames.

Gesture of solidarity. It's cool you opened up. If you find yourself in Austria, maybe let's play with fire some time. Or have a beer, idk.

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tuesday wrote

Thank you so much for sharing with us. It's hard to open up like that.
I hope you find some comrades, or even just folks to share space with.

I'm happy you're here.

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MHC wrote

Ask a counsellor about assertiveness.

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