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yes actually, i openly talk about my chan endeavors to my irl friends and coworkers, just not family. i think i get pretty privilege bc no one thinks i'm gross or weird for it, they just say i'm cooky.
when i was younger i was actually really lonely and bullied at school, so i used to lurk a lot in some img boards (not necessarily 4chan, cause i had an individuality complex of wanting to be "cooler than that") to feel less lonely, but then i went through puberty at 16 and then irl people wanted to be around me cause i had a glow up. ifit was for fake people to want to talk to me, i preferred the anons that also liked talking about my interests than the people that suddenly just wanted to talk to me cuz they thought i was hot now.
i'm now 20 and my new irls (after moving) say i could do so much better than being in these places, but they don't get that i first found companionship around here. as to why i openly talk about being in image boards: i guess i have a really bad social filter cause i just say things like that very openly + since i'm mostly a neet, all my troubles come from internet issues, so when iwant to talk about it to someone, i always end up saying it. my psychiatrist keeps begging me to leave forums bc they're bad for my mental health sometimes, but i dont think these normies understand what its like to be so badly bullied to a point i had to clean up trash from my bags before getting home and after i tried going to the counselor at school i was made to apologize to my bullies, or constantly threatened, only to be seen differently when older then suddenly everyone pretends they never did anything to you.
yea, i'll stick with the degens, even if part of it was grooming, i was way better treated.
(sorry for the rant bros TvT)