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Maybe it is me, but when did you meet those friends? I've tried to contort myself and my personality into just about every shape that I can imagine over the course of those years. I don't think that there's anything wrong with me, and I do my best to be kinder than is necessary, but here I am.

So yes, maybe the problem is me. I hope not, but if it is and if I can't change that, then leaving society still seems like a sensible thing to do.

There's a saying I like.

"If one day, you meet an asshole - then you met an asshole. If one day, you meet a hundred assholes - then you're an asshole."

A bit harsh, perhaps, but still relevant.

Yes, I think about that saying every day, and have for years.

It is difficult.

Yea but if you look around you and everyone seems to be antisocial to each other (removing yourself from the picture) you might be in the wrong place. If you can travel somewhere else and immediately people treat you differently than it's not you, it's the place.

The least helpful intervention imaginable

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