I don't know what I'm doing

don't worry, neither do most of us

how do I be normal??

That's the neat part. You don't. Welcome to Hexbear, where everybody is some fusion of neurodivergent gay trans communists. It rules.

But you should go to sleep.

how do I be normal?

Don't.

(I don't think there's any point in attempting to be normal. Don't know about you, but personally I always fail at it anyway, even if I try. So why bother? That energy can be used for more interesting things.)

I spent most of my youth trying to assimilate in one way or another. I am now middle-aged and entirely convinced that everything in my life would be better if I'd gone all-in on weirdness and rebellion from the get-go. Don't trust the assimilated, they will betray you

Step 1: Go to sleep. Sleep is very important.

Step 2: Reply/Read when you wake up. We're not going anywhere :3

Step 3: Make even more friends

Repeat and adjust steps as needed. And don't be normal, forgot to add that.

Welcome. Just remember, "normal" is a setting on the dryer. Just do you, that's good enough

I almost never know what I'm doing but have grown accustomed to pretending

im way too autistic to try and be normal and i fit in pr well here so you're probably good

Simply keep posting

When in doubt, just post

psst over here

Half the users here were born c.1990, and only a few of the Big Posters here were born post-2000 (including me)

There’s gonna be a rift soon, a lotta the posters radicalized by Iraq/the recession/Occupy Wall Street are gonna be busy raising kids and etc, they’re gonna have to pass down their shitposting responsibilities to the (relatively few) zoomers here

You’re in between, you’ve gotta facilitate the transition between the old order (the ex-somethingawfullers inspired by dril and his offshoots) and the new one (an imminent yet currently disorganized coalition of indie game fanartists, raver puppygirls, ppl with crushes on fictional robots, etc) that hasn’t even joined yet. Not drafting you into anything but we’d appreciate the help

Check out the megathreads pinned at the top of the feed. They're themed chats and tend to be a more chill, cozy posting environment

You haven't even met a 10th of us lol. Mostly just be silly, we love that shit

hello

Hi! 👋

Just sing a song hey diddly ho

Hi!!

There's both hard and soft rules depending on where you hop in. Follow those and the rest clicks fairly easy.

Most of us are queer and neurodivergent. You're in good company because there is no "normal" here, and it's proudly on full display.

Idk I just be intolerably weird all the time, seems to work ok