“I’m fiscally conservative but socially liberal”
- late high school/early college goldsound
What a fuckin' idiot that guy was.
goldsound
joined 4 years ago
Its made me completely adverse to making plans. Like, I looooooathe making plans any further out than a few hours from now, because otherwise my life is rendered inflexible and anything that could upset my plans are means for monumental emotional turmoil.
College. And I think I actually developed co-morbid mental illnesses (depression and anxiety) that led me to finding out the root cause (ADHD-PI).
More info: I'm pretty positive (through internet rabbit holes) that I was what some in the psychology community call "twice exceptional". I fuckin' crushed school all the way into (and most including) college. Because of that, my numerous (in hindsight) obvious symptoms were ignored/let go because I was "successful". The closest is 1 teacher of a different class in my grade (not even my own teacher) told my mother I should be tested for autism because of how upset I would get at deviations from plans (again more likely my ADHD). That all came crashing down when I just... fell apart one semester of college. I gained weight and was at my heaviest ever (and I'd never been skinny) and I failed my only class in all of school (still the only one). If I hadn't been encouraged by my partner to get help (and then do some self-diagnosis to fight my way to the ADHD test)... let's not go there.
Still really struggle with things that I never developed healthy coping mechanisms for because instead I just... lived with them most of my life (and all of my formative years).
Do I dare even ask what the "Three Moves Ahead" podcast even is? Id assume its a stupidpol podcast, but no matter what it sounds like it has some reeeeally bad takes.
EDIT: Appears I made the wrong assumption. "Ass out of me" and all that
Well at least if you are smart and got a STEM major and even got employed full time right out of college and didn't even get your job or pay get interuppted by covid then surely you should be financially stable and able to buy a house in your mid-20s like your dad did working a union job in the early 90s, right?
Right?
...right?
I will live in fear of rent, health, car troubles until I die and goddammit I did everything they all told me to.
Pretty sure he was also a B*rnie Bro too. We love our tall child, don't we folks?
The kid is 16 according to their other comments in the thread and have since changed their flair to "auth-right" lmao.