Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent
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It’s a harrowing experience. I know how you feel.
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Yeah, fuck cancer.
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Waiting weeks for the new lenses in your existing frames to be put in. I remember when reading wasn’t mean to give you headaches.
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@WhiteRaven I don’t know if this counts or if it helps or whatever, but.
I don’t know if it’s some level of undiagnosed bipolar or just the ADHD that we for sure know about, or if it is a third, mysterious and unknown thing. But I unintentionally ghost people from time to time, either because I just don’t have the energy to log back into places, or I worry that I’ve annoyed people TOO MUCH by trying to stay in touch despite not really hanging out on the same games so I stop talking, but then has it actually been TOO LONG since I talked last? It would be weird for me to break the silence. Lets just let it go on for a little longer. Apologizing for the silence is awkward, maybe we pretend it never happened.
… rinse, repeat, ad nauseum. To the point I have a job application sitting in my car, waiting to snail-mail in to a job that just might finally get me out of the dumb restaurant, but… I’ve had it for so long. It would be weird to send it. Or scheduling car maintenance. Talking is hard, the car won’t break if it goes a little over in milage. What’s that, you say? 5,000 miles past the ‘next oil change’ recommendation, you say?
Uh, where was I? Right, ghosting.
So it might not be ghosting. It could just be ‘things would be weird’. So maybe give her a fresh reach-out/poke, because it could just be a mixup. Unless she specifically told you to fuck off, but that doesn’t sound like what happened.
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@Jennkryst Not going to diagnose or anything, but that description pings every ADHD sensor I have. So you can definitely use that label if it helps you.
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@Jennkryst Well I suddenly feel both seen and called out all at once. Thanks. I think.
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@Pavel oh, yeah, I got the ADHD diagnosis like… 30 years or so ago, so no worries about overstepping there. It’s more a question of WHAT ELSE. But that costs money, gonna live in chaos instead.
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@Jennkryst said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:
It’s more a question of WHAT ELSE.
In my experience the answer is, what we professionals call, fucking everything.
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@Pavel Well, yeah.
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@Jennkryst Oh, if you want the answer to that… it’s probably your parents.
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@WhiteRaven said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:
I know that I don’t deserve any explanations or think that I’m entitled to know what happened or why.
Don’t you? I mean, naturally we all talk about how we all don’t owe random RP acquaintances explanations for everything, like not wanting to RP with someone or talk to them. But there’s a difference between random people on a game you barely know, and someone you’ve been friends with for eight years.
As others have said, there could be any number of reasons for it, and I don’t know the particulars of your situation. But I think it’s also okay to acknowledge that, even if something was accidental, or not intended, that it can also have been hurtful and unkind. I at least don’t live in a world where a friend of eight years doesn’t deserve any sort of word of explanation when the other friend disappears. (With the usual caveats, yes, if someone is abusive/toxic/unhealthy/etc., you do what you need to get out of a bad situation.)
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@WhiteRaven There is, of course, a possibility that has nothing to do with you in any way. You did nothing wrong. You aren’t being ghosted. Things happen to people. It’s entirely possible they are unable to contact you due to various reason that don’t really need to be elaborated on.
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You know, fuck scammers man.
Here I am trying to look for a new job because they announced layoffs at my company, and I get an e-mail about setting up an interview. Talk to someone, have a lengthy back and forth and then the more I dig and look into it after the fact, the more and more certain I am of it being a scam. Hitting all the notes from some other anecdotes I’ve found online and its like…
It’s fuckin bad enough dealing with our shit ass capitalist system
If you are just trying to scam people looking for opportunities, you’re a sleazebag POS and need to be yeeted straight into the sun.
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So, in the last 5-6 weeks:
Part of a neighbor’s tree (I live in the PNW and this is one of those giant trees that predate the 20th Century) fell on my house and ripped out the power conduits, part of the siding, and effectively destroyed our yard and fence. Insurance covered most of it (minus deductible) but the extent of this means we have to deal with paper checks while we had to basically shell out close to 20 grand out-of-pocket. Paper checks that have to be slow-boat endorsed and mailed by the mortgage company (who are a bunch of fucking Draculas who bought our mortgage from the original lender).
The same people who can magically accept payments from us electronically have to employ some shithead in a mail room to physically scan the check and can only mail it back to us standard mail.
That doesn’t include all the additional yard work needed in the wake of that mess. Add some family medical emergencies to this and a couple work vacancies that I have to fill in for and all I can say is:
Just slow the fuck down. Please.
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I wrote out this whole long multi-paragraph thing and then decided not to post it. I just want to say that I’m struggling a lot lately. Nothing game related. Nothing forum related. Just in my own head space and dealing with things that linger in the dark there.
I’m just venting this to the void and I’m completely safe IRL and everything. I just can’t seem to shake the place I’m currently in. Nothing is even really wrong in my life, other than apparently my brain chemistry and perception of it.
Anyways, I’m sure it will pass, but I don’t know. I feel I had to put it down in print some where. If that makes sense. I guess.
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@RightMeow said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:
Anyways, I’m sure it will pass, but I don’t know.
It will. Good times, bad times, whatever times, it’ll all pass. It might pass like a kidney stone, but it’ll pass.
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@RightMeow said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:
I wrote out this whole long multi-paragraph thing and then decided not to post it. I just want to say that I’m struggling a lot lately. Nothing game related. Nothing forum related. Just in my own head space and dealing with things that linger in the dark there.
I’m just venting this to the void and I’m completely safe IRL and everything. I just can’t seem to shake the place I’m currently in. Nothing is even really wrong in my life, other than apparently my brain chemistry and perception of it.
Anyways, I’m sure it will pass, but I don’t know. I feel I had to put it down in print some where. If that makes sense. I guess.
I feel you.
My RL is so crazy right now that I broke down sobbing because I accidentally dropped the 1/3rd remainder of my nephew’s birthdate cake on the floor.
(It wasn’t even my fault, it was the fault of whoever got cake last, they didn’t actually close the box, so it collapsed in my hands and went splat.)
I feel silly for crying now, but in the moment it was literally the end of the world.
It’ll get better for both of us, we just gotta wait it out.
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@Cobalt totally not silly to cry about something like that!