Read the title: yeah, feels kinda true
Read the article: damn...
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2026
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Was latchkey kid with add. I only move in predicability. Work, relationships friendships all work because I can predict their behavior.
And hilariously enough I've gravitated into being a Dominant in a D/s relationship. Because if you can control it, you can predict it. (It's consensual)
Also... Therapy kept me from being resentful.
A lifetime of anxiety, avoidance, borderline abusive social connections, and not being able to connect with my own emotion until my mid thirties, reporting in.
Doing better these days, it's scary to ask for help. I've learned to choose the right kind of friends. So now when I'm brave enough to ask, they're available and listening.
Can confirm.
Protip to not become a resentful adult: Vent and vent often. Keeping that shit bottled up is the starting breeding ground for most of today's personality disorders.
Quiet resentment eventually begets external aggression.
For me the quiet resentment has begotten a wicked dark humour, which I'm generally good with 😏
Don't need to read the article. Got shit from my father for using rivets when I should've used screws on my car. "Didn't anyone ever teach you anything?" he said. No shit cunt, YOU didn't.
You should know better.
Well, you should teach better....
Stop seeing me
Don't forget the chronic depression, crippling trust issues, and being perpetually single due to said trust issues...
Listen, I'm trying to doomscroll, not read my psych eval.
I remember being a child and finding a book called "How To Do Nothing With No One All alone By Yourself."
I enjoyed the book, but wondered about the people who would need that book.
Please don’t @ me like that.
Your enviroment is the issue. Change the enviroment change the person. If you are feeling a little edgy work on your great escape. Money sucks but keep your eyes peeled and take it. I got detangled before and escaped traps... I can do it again. They say you can't but you can. They are all phoneys
Your environment is the issue.
Reminds me of one of my favorite stickers:
I'm not really resentful bacause of that. I just have fond memories of learning alone. It was lonely trying to relate with others what I was doing with my day, but it didn't stop it from being fun.
Most useful stuff I know if because of the internet, so it's pretty goated for that. No squeaky doors in my house, you fuckass hinges, wikihow gave me a hammer and y'all are just puny nails /s
Schools should just expand the stuff they teach imo, for cases like that, because im pretty sure there will be a lot more kids just like them