Interviewer: where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Me: I used escapist fantasies as a coping mechanism to get through years of trauma and therefore never learned how to plan for a real life future
Alternatively: I went through periods of depression so frequent and intense that I never considered that I’d actually make it to my 20s so now I’m kinda just making it up as I go
Tag: yea
seeing the casual platonic physical affection the queer eye cast expresses is healing tbh. physical affection between lgbt people is so important…so many of us are lonely and touch starved and have complexes about seeming predatory if we so much as shake hands with a member of the same gender. and that stuff can’t just be fixed within romantic relationships.
Are you ever just overwhelmed by the horrifying thought that maybe, nobody ACTUALLY wants you around? And it’s not that you think everyone hates you, but it’s just that you’re not special to anyone? And that its really kind of sucky that you’re about 98% sure that nobody thinks “Wow, I just really like talking to her.” and that you could probably just disappear without anyone caring that much?
Amber 