• Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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    2 years ago

    I think a decent chunk of the time its a reaction to the average sports guy aggressively not understanding why you would like shit that isnt sports, and yeah whatever get over high school and all that shit but its fun to mentally get back at dickheads like that.

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Fucking for real with that. If it wasnt for getting that reaction from average sports guy a million times i wouldnt have any kind of hostile reaction to sports. I think thats where the whole "sportsball" thing started.

      Also, its annoying growing up as cis male kid, and being asked if you like baseball/football by every doctor/adult you have to intetact with for years of your life and being treated like a freak if you don't, cause now they have no small talk options

      Do doctors still ask kids that? I jist remember hating that so much as a kid

    • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      I honestly feel like "get over highschool" is a shitty thing to tell people and I hate how normalized its become. Like bullying is traumatic. I personally have forgiven my bullies because they were kids when it happened*, and also because Senior year I got to know some of the "popular kids" and realized they were human and many of them quiet nice and also realized that my friend group of nerds had a lot of asshole qualities between us, and for a long time I thought that was the "right thing to do". Then I tried sharing that opinion in a room of people with bullying trauma and got fucking verbally destroyed for it and realized like, trauma is real and telling people to just get over it is fucked up.

      *AND because I spent my young adulthood on a Survivor forum where my opinions on the contestants being colored by my highschool experience was something that got me bullied on THERE for, plus contestants that brought up their highschool trauma were shit on, so it was very uncool to still care about highshool so I adapted because autism.

      • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        There was a period of time when, if I was just out walking alone, I'd be TERRIFIED of seeing kids my age, just minding their own business. We don't talk enough about how victims of bullying have a lot in common with victims of child abuse.