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'True Self" by Sarah Andersen (64.media.tumblr.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by sag@lemm.ee to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 28 points 11 months ago

My true self seems to only exist on the internet. I want to be me in meat space, too, but I just lock up most of the time and become completely non-verbal all the while I am aware of it and screaming inside my head to just do this, or say that the way I would on a comment or a chat room.

[-] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

I applaud your self-control. My true self cannot be contained HAHAHAHAHA

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 11 months ago

Self-control? No... This is mental illness. And it sucks. :(

[-] JesusLikesYourButt@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I have similar experiences with wanting to desperately be part of conversations, but not being able to expel the words.

Have you looked into selective mutism? Or being a highly sensetive person?

[-] finkrat@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That or Autism (which lends to Selective Mutism). The actual neurodivergency, not the internet's/4chan's idea of it. It's not always as visible and obvious as people think. People can go through their whole lives not knowing due to it impacting them as a series of miscellaneous, tangentially related difficulties and never actually finding out about how it affects your life.

[-] don@lemm.ee 22 points 11 months ago

The silly version is cooler anyway

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Was gonna say, silly is cool and can be very mysterious

[-] sour@kbin.social 17 points 11 months ago
[-] Damaskox@kbin.social 10 points 11 months ago

Y'all would be weirded out if you saw how silly I became with my girlfriend!!

[-] UtMan1988@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

... Giggiddy?

[-] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 9 points 11 months ago

I wear colourful Hawaii shirts to balance out my bleak and anemic personality.

[-] greencookie@feddit.de 8 points 11 months ago

The world needs more silly.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

It comes with age ... when you are young, you do things to impress others ... when you get a bit older, you do things to look respectable ... when you get a lot older and death is getting closer, you don't care anymore and say and do whatever you like

[-] CertifiedBlackGuy@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Command accepted.

[-] Classy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

I have a hard time accepting this isn't secretly Allie from Hyperbole and a Half drawing these

[-] quotheraven404@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah those eyes have big simple dog energy

[-] anonymoose@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Now that you mention it!

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 4 points 11 months ago

Being mysterious and cool and silly.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Let out silly self!!

this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2023
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